10 Double Stroke Rudamental style exercises

Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorised

Video showing Exercise 1 & 2: There are quite a few double stroke rudiment exercises in the 40 official drum rudiments, but none of these are in them. While the ’40 drum rudiments’ cover many of a drummers needs, in terms of practicing, there are many...

Intermediate Drum Warm-Up – Part 1

Mar 30, 2020 | Drums

Following on from the Drum Lesson Warm Up posted a few days ago, this intermediate drum warm-up is for drummers that have reached a higher level of ability (about Grade 4-6 but could be used by higher grades too). PDF Download This download actually includes Part 1...

Paradiddle Exercises Moving Accents To Toms and Cymbals

Oct 5, 2019 | Drums

The Paradiddle. The most popular drum rudiment. So dramatic! Could be the flam actually. I’ll never look at the paradiddle in the same way, after a student asked a sporadic question “who created the paradiddle?”. I replied quickly with “Jerry...

Drum Practice Routines – Sheet 2 – Grade 1-2

Aug 13, 2019 | Drums

Free PDF Download: Drum Practice Routines – Sheet 2 – Grade 1-2 It’s still the summer holidays and most people are taking a well deserved break. I’ve been on holiday and I’m fully relaxed but I have a few lesson days coming up so...

Drum Practice Routines – Sheet 1 – Grade 1-2

Aug 3, 2019 | Drums

Free PDF Download: Drum Practice Routines – Sheet 1 – Grade 1-2 It’s the summer holidays and most people are taking a well deserved break. I have made this sheet for some of my drum students to practice over the holidays, which can be done in 5...

Accent Practice Exercise for Snare Drum

Jun 13, 2017 | Uncategorised

This exercise was created to support the learning of playing paradiddles with accents along with a metronome at 70bpm in the Grade 2 Rockschool technical exercises 2012-18 syllabus. I have also suggested to try practicing the sheet between 60 and 120bpm, with or...

2 Snare Drum Sticking Exercise Sheets

Mar 9, 2017 | Uncategorised

The first exercise sheet was written to help my drum students build up their coordination and sticking techniques for the snare drum. The second exercise sheet was transcribed directly from this excellent Hit Like A Girl 2017 entry video by Jenn Proos. The entire...