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50 Beginners Drum Beats

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 a pdf ebook. We start off fairly easy and by beat 21 the beats do get quite hard, learning Jazz beats with 4 way co-ordination. This selection of 50 beats can be learned as one topic, or it can be something to dip in and out of. Here are all of the sheets with all 50 beats, but if you would like the printable pdf, then you will need to purchase that here.

 

drum notation containing beginners drum beats
Drum Beat Exercises 11-22
drum notation containing beginners drum beats
Drum Beat Exercises 23-30
drum notation containing beginners drum beats
Drum Beat Exercises 31-41
drum notation containing beginners drum beats
Drum Beat Exercises 42-50

 

 

16 Rock Beats with Quarter Note Hi Hats

★ 16 Drum Beats for use in drum lessons or for self taught drummers.

★ Printable PDF

★ Try the Hi Hats slightly open for a heavy sound.

★ You could play the Hi Hats closed but change some of them to open Hi Hats

★ You could change the Hi Hats into Ride Cymbals, Floor Toms or Crash Cymbals

★ You could also combine beats into one exercises, such as exercise 1-2 or exercise 1-4 all in one go.

★ Try playing through all 16 exercises once each in one go without stopping or making any mistakes!

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10 Basic Hip Hop and Funk Skip Beats

This sheet is one of 2 bonus warm up sheets in the book 40 Hip Hop and Funk Skip Beats and Fills Exercises. Before getting stuck into exercises usually lasting for 4 or more bars, we focus here on 1 bar at a time, looping each drum beat for a while and making it comfortable to play.

Here is a video showing how to play these 10 exercises:

You should focus on mastering each beat on this sheet before moving onto the rest of the book. When it starts to get more comfortable, introduce the metronome at around 60-70bpm and settle down into a groove for a bit. Try increasing the speed after a while. The skip beats are the snare drums or bass drums that slot in between the 8th note hi hats. The ‘skip’ should be exactly in the middle of the space between the hi hats. when added they should sound like even 16th notes between the hi hats and the skip beats. Concentrate hard on acheiving this even spacing to make your beats sound tight.

Often snare drum skip beats are played as ghost notes. This is not notated, but you should also go through the sheet again trying this.

You can also view the next sheet in the book for free: 10 Basic Hip Hop and Funk Skip Beats with 16th note hi hats.