30 essential productivity apps, business management tools and other apps or websites that help to run an online business and a local music teaching business

Sep 5, 2017 | Drums

Here is a list of 30 essential productivity apps, business management tools and other apps or websites that help to run an online business and a local music teaching business. The list here is what suits me and keeps me going as an individual business. There are other...

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...

Snare Drum and Floor Tom Piece with Sextuplets, Single Stroke Four’s and Paradiddle-diddle’s

Nov 23, 2016 | Drums

This piece was written for a youth drumming group but it was too difficult for them as they were not quite ready in ability. I’m sure there will be plenty of people out there that will find this a good and achievable challenge. The drum piece will require a...

Group Snare Drum Piece with 3 difficulty levels (Piece 2, Book 1)

Aug 31, 2016 | Uncategorised

<ahref=”http://tlmusiclessons.bandcamp.com/album/10-snare-drum-pieces-book-1-audio-pdf-sheet-music-download”>10 Snare Drum Pieces – Book 1 – Audio &amp; PDF Sheet Music Download by TL Music Lessons</a> This snare drum piece has...

Snare Drum Sheet Music focusing on 8th note (quaver) rests

May 27, 2016 | Uncategorised

This snare drum piece focuses on using 8th note rests before playing an 8th note, so that the snare drum plays on the off beat. The off beats are combined with various rhythms that you would also find up to grade 2 level, consisting of 16th note, quarter note and 8th...

10 breakfast snare drum exercises – phonetic rhythms

Apr 14, 2016 | Uncategorised

Here we are going to use 5 breakfast rhythms in various combinations to make up the 10 exercises for the snare drum. We use the words phonetically to help play the rhythms. TEA (One quarter note COFFEE (Two 8th notes) SAUSAGES (Two 16th notes and an 8th note)...

Snare drum sheet music based around single stroke fours and sextuplets

Feb 19, 2016 | Uncategorised

This snare drum sheet is ideal for practicing the single stroke four drum rudiment and also for playing sextuplet rhythms within a piece. The piece could be played by a group of snare drums or other drums if the players are at an intermediate level of above (at least...

Beginners snare drum piece lasting 8 bars

Feb 3, 2016 | Uncategorised

This short snare drum piece works on a few of the fundamental subdivisions and rhythms used at grade 1 level and leading up to it. The piece consists of quarter notes, 8th notes, 16th notes and quarter note rests. The performance technique of playing on the rim of the...

(Premium) – 10 Snare Drum Pieces – Book 1 – Levels 1-3 (PDF ebooks)

Jan 3, 2016 | Uncategorised

Introduction After a year of teaching a local youth group of drummers aged between 8 and 12, ranging from beginners to intermediate players, this collection of 10 snare drum pieces was created as an archive of this body of work. The MYM Snare Drumline Group is an...