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10 Practice Pad Exercises – beginners to intermediate

These 10 practice pad exercises are redesigned and edited exercises from the ebook Beginners Drum Book 2023. I have designed these to be useful for reading on a mobile screen as well as for any other device. It also looks good printed out, which you can do if you purchase 10 Practice Pad Exercises (PDF).

  • Can be used as warm ups or for drum lesson content
  • Many of the exercises can be played slowly by beginners and faster by intermediate players
  • Use with and without a metronome
  • For practice pad or snare drum
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Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners – Sheet 1

Advanced beginners drum warm up exercises for use in drum lessons, or for starting a practice or learning sessions.

Advanced beginners drum warm up exercises for use in drum lessons, or for starting a practice or learning sessions.

This is the first sheet in a collection of drum warm up exercises that will be made into a pdf ebook. You can use and print the main image on this website for educational use, or you also have the option of purchasing a PDF copy of Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners – Sheet 1.

In the sheet there is a snare drum rhythm exercise that has be made to sound good when repeated. Drummers should aim to increase the speed once comfortable with the rhythms. Likewise for the other exercises too. Start off slow and build up confidence and ability before going fast.

The flams exercise should be played by playing R L R L on all 8th notes, which is why one of the flams is played with the left hand playing the louder part of the flam, because it’s on one of the off-beat 8th notes. The second bar could be played R L R L or the 8th notes could be changed into paradiddles, meaning the second flam would be played with the left hand on the stronger note. Left handers will need to do the opposite to all of this.

The swing beat could easily be made harder but this could be the first time some drummers have been introduced to it so I’ve kept it fairly simple. The 8th notes are to be played with swing on the ride cymbals. If you don’ know what that means, have a listen to The Pink Panther theme tune and listen to the ride cymbals.

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Beginners Drum Book 2023

To Drummers,

I have a new drum book available for pre order, which includes some of the sheets that will be in the book when you pre order. I’m putting the price low, it’s only £1 to pre order and when it’s ready (by September this year), you’ll get the full copy sent by email. I’m going to be working on it over the summer and hopefully it will be an enjoyable book for teachers, students and anyone else to use, ready for the new school year in September. I’ll also make a video to help out with reading the contents of the book so that self taught drummers can follow along with ease.

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8 advanced warm up exercises for drums with patterns and subdivisions

The exercises on the drum notation are for grade 5-8 players. By reading the list of exercise below, you can begin to see clearly how easy they are. This exercise sheet can be used as a continuous warm up exercise.

The ability level would be measured on timing and speed. All drummers should begin slowly before building up the speed. A metronome is recommended.

The 8 Warm Up Exercises: Based on a drum setup with snare, tom 1, tom 2, and floor tom

Each exercise should be repeated as necessary, and could be started slowly and speeded up on repeat.

  1. Play 2 hits on each drum
  2. Play 3 hits on each drum
  3. Play 4 hits on each drum
  4. Play 6 hits on each drum
  5. Play 8 hits on each drum
  6. Play 2 hits on the snare, 4 hits on tom 1, 6 hits on tom 2, and 8 hits on the floor tom
  7. Play 3 hits on the snare, 6 hits on tom 1, 9 hits on tom 2, and 12 hits on the floor tom
  8. Play 4 hits on the snare, 8 hits on tom 1, 12 hits on tom 2, and 16 hits on the floor tom

Snare Drum Piece with Basic Rhythms for Grade 1 Sight Reading

After having a try at the sheet slowly, try playing this snare drum piece with a metronome (play it slowly at first). Focus on getting the 2 beat notes in time with the click. Also work hard on the rests, in particular the half beat rests.

Related (Premium): 10 Snare Drum Pieces – Book 1 – Levels 1-3

Sixteenth Note Rhythms and Counting Exercise

These exercises should be played on the snare drum or a practice pad. The counting is shown below the notes. Every exercise is based on the first one, with notes taken away.

For example, on the second line, you can still coun’t the full “1 E + a”, but don’t hit the drum when you count the “E”.