Regardless of whether you’re new to the drums or an experienced drummer, regardless of your musical preference – be it blues, pop, rock, jazz, hard rock, heavy metal, funk, world music, or so forth – rest assured that on this website you will find the right courses to learn drums and make steady progress. To view the drum courses you are interested in, select the respective themes in the adjoining menu and a complete list of relevant courses will be presented to you.
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Advanced Binary Drum Solos
You will encounter drum solos in every musical style. They actually consist of improvisations, on-the-spot compositions, of variable duration. Within these solos your feet will execute more or ...
Playing Ternary Two-Beat Breaks
Drum breaks, also often referred to as “fills”, are aimed at joining two adjacent segments. This fairly short break, comprising two beats, often marks a rather rapid transition between two ...
Playing Half-Time Grooves
In drumming, half-time grooves consist in accentuating the third beat – principally with the snare drum. Half-time beats are not to be confused with backbeats (or afterbeats), where the accent ...
Playing Ternary Sixteenth-Note Grooves
Ternary grooves based on sixteenth notes result from combining eighth note triplets and sixteenth note triplets, also called sexuplets. You will encounter applications of these rhythmic figures ...
Playing Single Stroke Rolls
The single stroke roll is a basic drum rudiment; it consists in alternating right hand (indicated by white circles) and left hand (black circles) single strokes. This snare drum rudiment is ...
Hard Rock Grooves
This assortment of hard rock drum grooves is performed in the style of the legendary AC/DC, Guns ’n’ Roses, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Scorpions, and many more. The drumming – straight, sober ...