Buy The Book → Introduction This book contains drum beats and drum fills in the styles of Hip Hop, Rap, Grime and Funk, Soul and Rock/Pop. The book has some grade 3-4 level exercises and also some harder ones, ranging from Grade 5 to Grade 8. The book would be an...
Free PDF download: 10 Basic Skip Beats with 16ths – 40 Skip Beats and Fills Exercises. This free PDF download includes 10 basic skip beats, with 16th note hi hats. They do get a little tricky towards the end. The two basic beats sheets should be mastered (or at...
PDF – 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,...
To play these drum beats you must follow a RLRL pattern on the hi hats, and move over to the snare on beats 2 and 4 with the right hand (all opposite for left handers). The bass drum foot is doing all the work here but you will also need to make sure to lock in tight...
Before many of you start thinking I’ve spelled ‘practice’ incorrectly – I’m from the UK! Here is a sheet that is ideal for drum teachers to give their grade 3-4 students to practice as ongoing homework for perhaps a half term, or 4-6...
Buy Now → People that might find this book useful – Drum teachers can print the book or single sheets for their students. – Drummers can teach themselves following on from a strong basic foundation in reading and playing Contents Highlights Subdivisions,...
You’ll need to be able to read the sheet music to play these funk drum grooves. These funky beats are versatile and can be played in various scenarios or even different styles of music. Use these funk drum beats for some new inspiration or ideas for adding flare...
Here we have 7 basic pop/rock drum beats with an added ‘skip beat’ snare hit, which slots in between the 8th note hi hats. It’s in the same place on each drum beat. It’s on the ‘a’ of counting “2 + a”. The counting would...
If you are new to these kind of drum beats, check out some of the easier looking sheets on the skip beats page. This is a great drum sheet for drum students that enjoy playing basic bass drum and snare drum skip beats and want to progress with them further. These drum...
A bass drum skip beat is where the bass drum is played in between the high hats. The skip beats create syncopation, and is often used in funk drumming. This sheet has a useful selection of different bass drum skip beat combinations. You could either treat the sheet as...
