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...
Piece 3 – Snare Drum Sheet Music – Book 2
For this 2 page snare drum piece there are 3 parts, A B and C. You can split up players into these groups of abilities (C is hardest). Some players could also play all three parts or just 2 parts. Free PDF Download PDF Download: Piece 3 – Snare Drum Sheet Music...
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...
Accent Practice Exercise for Snare Drum
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...
Sheet 2 – Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1
Welcome to the second in the series of ‘Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1’. You may like to listen to the audio to help understand the sheet music. There are short repeated exercises in the following categories, which are ideal for practicing on...
Sheet 1 – Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1
Welcome to the first in the series of ‘Drum Exercises for Beginners – Grade 1’. There are short repeated exercises in the following categories, which are ideal for practicing on your own, or for using by drum teachers as part of a lesson plan. You...
8 Technique Exercises for Accents and Ghost Notes
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...
Accent Techniques – Down, Tap, Up, Full Strokes
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...