PDF Ebook Buy Now → Next Page: Warm Ups → Here is part 1 of inside the book of “40 Beats and Fills Exercises Book 2”. As you can see in the featured image, this post is showing you how to read the drum notation in the book. This is going to to be quite...
Breakfast rhythms are great for all primary school ages, and they can be fun for high school and adult ages too to help with the initial barrier of learning the rhythms. By saying the rhythm and seeing it at the same time, you will be associating the sound with how it...
Some snare drum sheet music writes out buzz rolls with a Z through the stem. I don’t write it like that because my software doesn’t have that feature, but many others write it my way too anyway so I’ve got used to writing using 3 slashes instead (3...
Here is a list of dynamic markings you might encounter in drum sheet music. This list will be updated as more dynamic markings are thought of, and will start out as a basic list of fundamental dynamics notation. pp (pianissimo = very soft/quiet) p (piano = soft/quiet)...
Segno (The Sign) Coda (CODA) Dal Segno (D.S.) Go to the sign Da Capo (D.C.) Go back to the beginning D.S. al Coda Go to the sign, then follow ‘To Coda’ marking D.C. al Coda Go to the beginning, then follow ‘To Coda’ marking D.S. al fine Go to...
This is a reference sheet for students of all ages and abilities at whatever stage they are at with their instrument. It’s a handy printable sheet, which could be displayed on a wall at home or in a classroom. Learn and revise the names of all of the note values...
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”,...
