Warm Up – Inside the book: 40 Beats and Fills Exercises Book 2

Warm Up – Inside the book: 40 Beats and Fills Exercises Book 2

PDF Ebook Buy Now → Next Page: Sheet 1 →   Here is part 2 of inside the book: 40 Beats and Fills Exercises Book 2. This sheet is a warm up sheet for the drum kit, which includes 4 way coordination. The stepped hi hat and bass drum provide the parts for the feet,...
2 Minute Snare Drum Warm Up

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...
(Premium) – Grade 3-4 Drum Book with 17 Drum Lesson Sheets

(Premium) – Grade 3-4 Drum Book with 17 Drum Lesson Sheets

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,...
Snare Drum Subdivisions Exercise – 8ths, Triplets & 16th Notes

Snare Drum Subdivisions Exercise – 8ths, Triplets & 16th Notes

8th note Subdivisions You need to play 2 snare drums per beat. Put a metronome on a slow tempo (60-80) and try to play the right hand on every click. Then with your left hand, try to add a beat in between the right hands. When you do that you will be playing 2 snares...
Learning How To Read and Play Subdivisions

Learning How To Read and Play Subdivisions

Put the metronome on at 60pm and try to play this sheet. Line 1 will be 1 note per click. Line 2 will be 2 hits per click (stricking R L R L). Line 3 will be 4 notes per click (again, R L R L sticking). Line 4 and 5 are duplicates of line 1 and 2, so follow the...
Subdivision exercise with linear drum fills

Subdivision exercise with linear drum fills

At grade 5-6 you should have good knowledge of triplets, 16th notes and sextuplets, and you will need to be able to switch seamlessly between them. This exercise works on changing between triplets, 16th notes, and sextuplets like usual subdivision exercises, but with...
Sixteenth Note Rhythms and Counting Exercise

Sixteenth Note Rhythms and Counting Exercise

These exercises should be played on the snare drum or a practice pad. The counting is shown below the notes. Every exercise is based on the first one, with notes taken away. For example, on the second line, you can still coun’t the full “1 E + a”,...