A blog to help with learning and teaching Drums. Written by Theo Lawrence / TL Music Books.
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 a series of 1 line exercises, or as 1 full exercises.
Related: Snare Drum Skip Beats
Skip beats are intermediate and above drum beats where the snare drum skips in between a regular 8th note hi hat ostinato.
The word syncopation is often used to describe the sound these kind of drum beats.
Skip beats can be heard in many styles of music, including funk, rock, drum and bass, pop, hip hop, and soul.
Try to master each drum beat seperately first, then start combining different grooves back to back with each other to make interesting drum loops or drum grooves.
Related: Beginners Snare Skip Beats
Related: Bass Drum Skip Beats
At just 8 pages, this mini ebook gets stuck in to 90 different combinations of 16th note bass drum patterns in 2/4 bars. They are to be practiced individually in loops before moving onto the next groove. These are excellent for developing your kick drum technique and for building up an internal bank of bass drum rhythms that will tend to come out in improvisation and songwriting.
Contains 90 Unique Repeating Drum Beats, which work many 16th note combinations of bass drum patterns. The hi hat and snare stay simple and the same for every drum beat, so this is very much a focus on building up your bass drum technique, and overall kick drum skills.
This ebook is aimed for drums at Grade 4 level and above. Increasing the speed will provide challenges for even grade 8 drummers.
All these metal grooves are intended be played with a double bass drum pedal. You should already have done a lot of work with the double bass drum pedal before attempting these. If these look too difficult you could try 8 Intermediate Metal Double Bass Drum Beats.
There is a mixture of blast beats and simple double bass drum beats on this sheet. Play them all slowly to start with and then keep building up the speed. Ideally, use a metronome to record your progress, and practice this sheet over several weeks at least.
Related: Metal Beats – Part 1
All these metal grooves are intended be played with a double bass drum pedal. You should already have done a lot of work with the double bass drum pedal before attempting these. If these look too difficult you could try 8 Intermediate Metal Double Bass Drum Beats
There is a mixture of blast beats and simple double bass drum beats on this sheet. Play them all slowly to start with and then keep building up the speed. Ideally, use a metronome to record your progress, and practice this sheet over several weeks at least.
Related: Metal Beats – Part 2
These are metal grooves that use the double pedal in an interesting way.
This sheet is ideal for a drummer that has been learning the double bass drum for a while, and has some reading knowledge. Hopefully this will give some people a few new ideas for creating their own double kick grooves.
Fast double kick drumming sounds great when executed with precision. Just remember, focus on accuracy and timing above speed, so start off practicing them slowly and correctly first.
Related: Two Bar Metal Grooves – Sheet 1 →
Repeat each line multiple times. You will need to be grade 5-6 level for this sheet. There is a lot of syncopation. Drum & Bass is generally fast paced, so start off slow and get the beats right first and then gradually up the speed until they are sounding fast.
The slashed Hi Hats on the 5th and 6th line mean to play double strokes on those Hi Hats. For example 1 slashed Hi Hat = 2 notes, played with a double stroke.
These are metal grooves that use the double pedal in an interesting way.
This sheet is ideal for a drummer that has been learning the double bass drum for a while, and has some reading knowledge. Hopefully this will give some people a few new ideas for creating their own double kick grooves.
Fast double kick drumming sounds great when executed with precision. Just remember, focus on accuracy and timing above speed, so start off practicing them slowly and correctly first.
Related: Two Bar Metal Grooves – Sheet 2 →
