Educational
This page contains a selection of free online drum lessons. You will find links to YouTube videos, PDFs and backing tracks. The lessons presented here are for a range of playing abilities and are not planned as a structured course. Students attending my 1 to 1 lessons can of course expect an organised course of lessons aimed at their individual needs.
Notation Key
Fills
- Eight Drum Fills for Beginners link
Foot Technique
Grooves
- Ghost Notes link
Hand Technique / Rudiments
- Drags: 3/4 Dragadiddle Exercise pdf
- Paradiddles: Single & Double Combinations pdf
- Single Stroke Roll: Alternating Lead, Bounce Workout pdf
- Six Stroke Roll – Part 1 pdf | video
- Six Stroke Roll – Part 2: Evenly Spaced pdf | audio-1 | audio-2
- Six Stroke Roll – Part 3: Split In Half pdf | audio-1 | audio-2
- Six Stroke Roll – Part 4: Linear Licks pdf | audio-1 | audio-2 | audio-3 | audio-4
- Swiss Ruff pdf
Latin-American Grooves
Miscellaneous
- Get Inspired! – Develop Your Passion For Drumming pdf
Music Theory
- Time Signatures Explained pdf
Play-Alongs
Snare – Duets
Snare – Solo Pieces
- The Elephant & The Mouse (feat. Dynamics) – (beginner level) pdf
- The Magic Pizza (feat. The 4-Stroke Ruff) pdf
- Rainy Afternoon (feat. The 5-Stroke Roll) pdf
- Reading Exercise 1 – (beginner level) pdf
Time Exercises
These bass lines are designed to challenge your sense of time. In each track the bass line will drop out for a set number of bars, when this happens there is no click track to keep you in time.
- Funk, 110bpm, 2 bar breaks audio
- Funk, 110bpm, 4 bar breaks audio
- Rock, 130bpm, 4 bar breaks audio
- Rock, 130bpm, 8 bar breaks audio
- Shuffle, 120bpm, 4 bar breaks audio
- Jazz, 160bpm, 12 bar breaks audio
The following click tracks will gradually give you less and less information, making it harder and harder to stay in time.
. . .more coming soon