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...
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...
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...
These 8 drum beats will test your ability to add accented notes to the two handed hi hat pattern, whilst also negotiating tricky bass drum rhythms and open hi hat combinations. Start off slowly and build it up when you are comfortable with the grooves at low speed....
Skip beats are intermediate and above drum beats where the snare drum skips in between a regular 8th note hi hat ostinato. The word syncopation is often used to describe the sound these kind of drum beats. Skip beats can be heard in many styles of music, including...
