Parts Of A Drumstick (Easy Explainer Guide) So, what are the parts of a drumstick? There are six parts of a drumstick. The tip strikes the drum. The neck is the thinnest point. The taper is where a stick thickens and widens. The shoulder is the thickest end of the...
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...
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...
Photo Credit: Mark Latham Guest Blog Post by: NetSoundsMusic.com Playing drums requires a little bit more physical effort than many other instruments. While many instruments require correct breathing and fingering techniques, and some utilize pedals as well,...
Photo Credit: Unsplash Guest Blog Post by Drum Helper Lots of drummers are all too happy to play without much consideration for proper drumming posture. After all, it’s not as much fun to take a sensible and well thought out approach before wailing away at the drums!...
Photo Credit: Owen Byrne Hi Hats Beginners often play the hi hat too loud, and sometimes this is down to where they are hitting on the hi hat cymbals rather than how hard they are hitting. As a result, their playing sounds messy, and their sticks wear more quickly. If...
These snare drum or practice pad exercises are similar to drum rudiments. The drum exercises work on possible sticking and dynamic eventualities that you may encounter in drum beats and grooves, drum fills, and snare drum sheet music. The exercises also could be used...
When you play accents, you should ideally use 3 different stick strokes. These are tap stroke, up stroke, and down stroke. Tap Stroke You would play a tap stroke if you have just played a quiet note with that hand, and the next note with that hand is another...
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”,...
