10 Basic Rock Drum Beats

10 Basic Rock Drum Beats

Video Lesson In this lesson we will run through 10 popular rock drum beats. I will show you how to do variations on each beat, which will extend the contents of the sheet a lot, and give you ideas for practicing. I will also show you how they sound at slow, medium and...
8 Intermediate Metal Double Bass Drum Beats

8 Intermediate Metal Double Bass Drum Beats

These double bass drum grooves can be played by advanced beginners, intermediate players, and above. Double kick beginners should try this very slowly to start with. These grooves can be played in professional songs, they are mostly generic metal grooves and widely...
Learn to play the basic foundation Jazz drum groove

Learn to play the basic foundation Jazz drum groove

We are going to concentrate on the fundamental parts of playing Jazz drum beats. We are only going to concentrate on the right hand, and the left foot. Step 1 – Right hand With your right hand, play the ride cymbal 4 times. If this is too easy you can skip this...
Developing rock grooves with quarter note hi hats – Grade 2-3

Developing rock grooves with quarter note hi hats – Grade 2-3

I wrote this sheet initially to give students an idea of the type of things they could do to start off developing the drum beat for the guitar solo in a Grade 3 Rockschool song called Overrated (2012-18 syllabus). This sheet is also good for learning to develop the...
Samba Funk Drum Grooves – Grade 8

Samba Funk Drum Grooves – Grade 8

This drum grooves sheet is good for learning to improvise in a samba funk style. It was initially written for a drum lesson as a rough guide to the kind of things that could be improvised with during a Grade 8 Rockschool song from the 2006-2012 syllabus (Sampa Samba),...
16th note hi hat drum beat exercises

16th note hi hat drum beat exercises

Right handers should play ‘Right Left Right Left’ in a continuous pattern with the hands. Bring your left arm over to the left so both hands can play on the hi hat comfortably and without crossing the arms. The right hand would play the snare drum. Left...
Bass Drum Skip Beats

Bass Drum Skip Beats

A bass drum skip beat is where the bass drum is played in between the high hats. The skip beats create syncopation, and is often used in funk drumming. This sheet has a useful selection of different bass drum skip beat combinations. You could either treat the sheet as...