Im not a drummer

This lesson will be your very core and fundamental if you are an aspiring drummer for a rock band.  Most of the rock songs are based on this drum pattern. Also, you can use this on a variety of music.  You will enjoy jamming with friends or even by yourself on most songs in YouTube. In order to play this you need to play 8th notes on closed hi-hat then start with a quarter note kick followed by a quarter note snare then two 8th notes kick and a quarter note snare after. Here's the video to explain it further. There are variations that you can do or improvise on this drum pattern.  One is an open hi-hat for metal or heavy rock songs. Or you can play closed hi-hat and open it on the last note.  Again, always learn by playing it slowly at steady tempo. Then progress and play it as fast as you can. Play this pattern also as soft as you can, hold the sticks as light as you can, you can do a lot on drum mechanics.  Change the feel or groove on how you...

In this lesson you will develop a steady quarter notes on snare while doing 8th notes on closed hi-hat and doing half notes on kick at intervals. This technique is very good for beginners to develop their strength on snare as well as how to create a steady tempo at different notes on kick and hi-hat. This can also be used as a basic funky groove.  You can improvise on this one by doing it on various tempo, accents and feel or groove.  Here's the video sample of this lesson.  Enjoy! Don't forget to subscribe or share this blog, you never know it might help someone. For advanced player and intermediate, you might not find this interesting but for beginners or people who likes drums but has never tried one, might love this.  Cheers!

In this lesson you will learn the very basic on how to play simple disco drum pattern.  Also, this pattern can be used as warm up or exercise to improve your skills and it's very easy to learn.  All you need to do is a steady quarter note kick and on top of it will be steady 8th note closed hi-hat and snares at interval.  Then, you can change or improvise your hi-hat into 16th beat with alternating right and left hand strokes. You can add another groove into this pattern by opening and closing your hi-hat.  There are a lot of ways to improve, level up or be creative with your drum beat.  Here's the video of our lesson. Always remember to improvise with how you play our drum patterns and read the notes that we put just pause the video and study the drum notes.  And then keep playing on various tempos from slow to fast and soft to loud.  Learn the mechanics of how to be an excellent drummer. Meaning, you can play loud in a proper rock or metal con...

In this lesson and being not a drummer, it's amazing how versatile professional drummers are.  What I meant with this is that we all got our dominant hand and foot, and we often starts doing things using them.  So, in relation to drumming if you are right handed, then there's a good chance that you will start playing with the kick and your hi-hat. Let's just say it's time you play the drums and jam along you will always start the drum pattern with the bass or the kick.  So in order to break the chain and train yourself to do something, why not try it with the snare instead.  That's why in this lesson we call it the inverted 8th beat or the opposite of it. Instead of doing the kick first, you'll start with the snare.  Here's the video that will explain this further about the basics on drumming. Reminder:  Always try and play the pattern in various tempo from slow to fast and also from smooth to loud.  Just have fun and play around with the drumkit...

Our first lesson after knowing the parts of the drums and how to read drum notes is to actually try and play a drum pattern.  Most of the drummers start from this drum beat which is called 8th beat.  This is the simplest, easiest and very common drum beat.  A very powerful drum pattern because you can use this to almost every song on a variety of tempos.  Just to name few of the bands that uses this drum pattern, Metallica, Collective Soul, U2, McFly, etc.... So if you are a beginner in drumming, this is the best way for your to start your lesson and progress after. As a reminder, always practise with a steady tempo and also always try to play this pattern in soft as well as loud accents and then slow to fast speed.  Be creative and you'll be surprise where this drum pattern will take you.

Here's a very simple illustration on reading drum notes and this was written on a paper towel during one of my boring day. I was sat in the room doing nothing and suddenly a lightbulb moment happened and took a piece of paper towel and started writing drum notes. There are three lines and it's labelled as H.H. for hi-hat then S.D. for snare drums and B.D. for bass drum.  If you look it as just lines. The top one would be hi-hat, middle would be snare and the bottom is bass drum. These are the three basic parts of drums which we will be using throughout the lesson. I know a lot of us already know about notes but just a refresher exercises using clapping. Whole note:  Let's count 1 through 4 and just clap on the 1.  Meaning 1 clap each time. Half note:  Count 1 through 4 again and clap on 1 and 3.  Meaning 2 claps each round. Quarter note: Count 1 through 4 and clap on 1, 2, 3, and 4. Meaning 4 claps at a time. Eight note: Counting is changed to 1 ...

Here are the basic parts of the drumkit that one should know in order to play and understand drums. There are three basic parts in order to play drums and then I would call the rest as accessories where you play it to add flavour and make drumming more interesting.  Here are the three basic parts:  1) The Hi-hat. 2) The Snare drums and 3) The Bass drum.  When you know these three unit, you can already play a rhythm and start a good accompaniment to a song or join a band for that matter. The Hi-hat is consist of a foot pedal to make it open and close hence some call hi-hat as clapper because it looks like it's clapping.  There are many ways to use it either by hitting it with a stick or use your foot to open and close it rhythmically. The Snare drums normally is in between your legs and it is a flat drums with springs underneath.  There are myriads of ways to play with it.  Like, hit it with a stick and there are variety of sticks, brush, etc. to use an...