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16th Note Hi Hat Grooves With Accents

Here we have very basic snare and bass drum grooves, with challenging accented 16th note hi hat accent rhythms.

The Hi Hats should be played with 2 hands, with the leading hand moving over to the snare drum on beats 2 and 4.

Tip: You could play the accents on the Hi Hat edge, and the non-accents on the top of the Hi Hat, for a really good contrast in volume and tone.

These drum beats are good to play after spending some time working on the more rudimental type 16th note accent snare drum exercises like Accent Techniques – Down, Tap, Up, Full Strokes and 16th Note Accent Exercises ebook – 10 pages.

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Subdivision exercise with linear drum fills

At grade 5-6 you should have good knowledge of triplets, 16th notes and sextuplets, and you will need to be able to switch seamlessly between them. This exercise works on changing between
triplets, 16th notes, and sextuplets like usual subdivision exercises, but with the twist of adding some interesting and challenging drum fills rather than just one one drum (usually just played as snare drum exercises).

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10 pages of 16th note accent exercises, which includes accents and doubles around the kit. This ebook is designed to help progress technique and explore creative concepts by moving sticking exercises around the kit in various different ways.

Most exercises in the ebook are suitable for all ability levels, played at varying speeds.

This ebook covers a lot of ability levels in just 10 pages. There is content from Grade 1 up to Grade 8 in there. You’ll be able to dip in and out of this ebook when you want to work on accents, fills and double strokes.

10 Drum Fills lasting 1 bar – Grade 1

Start going through the sheet slowly, and work up to being able to practice this sheet all the way through as one exercise.

You might want to brush up the Reading Drum Notation sheet to help with reading this sheet.

Related: 10 Beginners drum fills lasting 1 bar
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10 Beginners drum fills lasting 1 bar

Play Right hand on all crotchets (1/4 notes), and Right Left on all of the Quavers (8th Notes) – (opposite for left handers).

Young beginners players could count the crotchets as Tea, and the quavers as “Cof-fee”.

You might want to brush up the Reading Drum Notation sheet to help with reading this sheet.

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10 Short Drum Fills Lasting 2 Beats Each

Slowly play the Snare twice then Tom 1 twice.
Snare, High Tom, Floor Tom.
To play this fill, you have to do a flam on the snare drum and then a flam on tom 1 for 1 beat each.
To play this drum fill, play a flam on Tom 1 then a flam on the floor tom, lasting for 1 beat each.
Play the floor tom with your right hand, the snare with your left and, and hit them both at the same time 4 times to create this short drum fill.
Tom 1 and Floor tom together twice, then Tom 2 and floor tom together twice.
Floor tom + snare together, then bass drum, then floor tom + snare together again.
To play this drum fill, play the Tom 1 and floor tom together, then the bass drum, and then a flam on the snare drum.
Play a flam on the snare, then a bass drum, and then tom 2 and the floor tom together.
Flam on the snare, bass drum on it’s own, then flam on the snare.

12 Bar Blues Shuffle – Easy

A simple shuffled drum groove with a triplet based drum fill on bar 12. Shuffle is another word for Swing.

This can be played at various tempos and is something you could play or improvise around at a blues jam night.

Drums Warm Up Exercise with 4 way co-ordination

The feet are walking, right, left, right, left, on the bass drum and stepped hi hat all the way though, until the last line, where it’s left foot hi hat on every beat.

Follow the sticking (R L R L) for the hands on the snare drum.

Either play as seperate exercises with a metronome, or as one continuous exercise through the whole sheet, with repeats.

Off Beat Open Hi Hat Grooves

The open hi hats can be seen in the sheet music where the hi hat has a circle around it.

All the beats have open hi hats on the “and” of the beat (i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +).

These beats are a good introduction to playing open hi hats in general, and particularly good for learning the off best feel. These beats need to be repeated a lot and groove needs to be felt by the drummer. A simple ska type guitar riff accompaniment would be an appropiate jamming style for developing an internal sense of groove. On bass a fun slap and pop bass riff would fit, or else something funky without these techniques.

Related: For more of a challenge, try these: Open Hi Hat Grooves Practice Piece with Fills

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), but this sort of thing can also be played in other songs of a similar style, or it could just be used as a general practice exercise for a drummer who is at Grade 8 or above.

Playing Tip: The fast 32nd note hi hat notes are played using the double stroke technique.