10 Double Stroke Rudamental style exercises
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
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...
Drum Lesson Warm Up
5 warm up exercises for the start of a drum lesson. Sticking patterns, drum beats, drum fills and beats with 4 way co-ordination. These exercises that would be a good warm up at the start of a drum lesson or at the start of a drum practice session. Anyone from Grade 1...
The best practice pad I have ever owned: Meinl MPP-12
The Meinl MPP-12 practice pad is quiet but loud enough that it’s satisfying to play. The rubber surface has some give to it so it’s not like hitting hard plastic. The bounce is realistic and similar to a tightly tuned snare. I bought this pad to use...
2 Minute Snare Drum Warm Up
It feels like we’ve all moved on with out lives after Nirvana, and then all of a sudden some kid reminds us what it used to be like listening to In Bloom, by slaying the drums along to the song and then we stick on the albums again! Let us not ever move on too...
Breakfast Rhythms – Learning to read and play drum fills and snare rhythms
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...
Paradiddle Exercises Moving Accents To Toms and Cymbals
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...
Sheet 1 – 40 Beats and Fills Exercises Grade 1-2
For this exercise sheet, you will need some basic beginners reading knowledge of drum beats and drum fills. In the exercises, you will play 3 bars of drum beats, 1 bar of a drum fill and then repeat the exercise. There are 4 exercises on the sheet and each one can be...