This collection of 50 beginners drum beats features in my ebook Beginners Drum Book 2023. I am planning to update this book at some point so the 50 beats may change or become more than 50, but if I do create a newer version, the 2023 version will still be included as...
PDF Ebook Buy Now → Next Page: Sheet 6 → Here is Exercise Sheet 5 from 40 Beats and Fills Exercises Book 2. Musical Theatre drumming generally has elements of swing, jazz, big band, blues, pop and rock. Unlike jazz music – which also has the swung hi hats...
PDF Ebook Buy Now → Next Page: Sheet 5 → Here is Exercise Sheet 4 from 40 Beats and Fills Exercises Book 2. The drum beats and drum fills are played in different time signatures (3/4, 5/4 and 2/4), as well as changing to and from the usual 4/4 bar length. Time...
PDF Ebook Buy Now → Next Page: Sheet 4 → Here is Exercise Sheet 3 from 40 Beats and Fills Exercises Book 2. The drum beats and drum fills are all in a 6/8 time signature. We will be putting emphasis on the beats 1 and 4 of the bar, which is standard for 6/8 drum...
PDF Ebook Buy Now → Look Inside The Book → This book contains drum beats and drum fills in the styles of pop, rock, blues, musical theatre, jazz, heavy metal, hard rock, punk rock, and indie, as well as covering fundamental techniques such as stepped hi hat, open hi...
Following on from the Grade 1-3 Drum Lesson Warm Up posted recently, and the intermediate drum warm-up Part 1 for drummers that have reached a higher level of ability (about Grade 4-6 +), here is the second part of the Intermediate drum warm up. This second part of...
Get Free PDF Download → There are 8 PDF files here with sheet music including Jazz drum beats. I thought rather than posting them seperately, I would rather group them all as one resource. They were created in 2010 near to when I started teaching and I used sibelius...
These jazz drum patterns are for at least grade 3 level. The 3 way co-ordination exercises could also be tried slowly by Grade 1-2. Drummers that are new to jazz could start with these even if they are a pro in other genres. These patterns will be hard if you are new...
Jazz music can be very difficult. Even these starter beats for Jazz drumming are a challenge, and beginners will probably need a teacher’s help to play these. The left foot is usually used in Jazz. To keep things simple we are just doing 3 way co-ordination in...
Photo Credit: Owen Byrne Hi Hats Beginners often play the hi hat too loud, and sometimes this is down to where they are hitting on the hi hat cymbals rather than how hard they are hitting. As a result, their playing sounds messy, and their sticks wear more quickly. If...
