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Level 1

Essential Drum Beats and Songs

20/3/2020

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In this course you will learn step by step how to read and play the essential drums beats that are widely used in western pop music.

Lets think and dream about drums……
Close your eyes.  Can you see yourself playing? Is it playing a drum solo in front of your class, or as a year 12 in front of the whole school?  Busking in local mall? Marching in the Christmas pageant. Playing jazz in a small club.  Playing in a rock band in a pub.  Playing in music festival or touring the world playing stadium shows?  Playing in a drumline at the Edinburgh tattoo?

 What does it look like for you?
 What does it sound like?
 What kind of music are you playing?
 The day that you first hit a drum is the day that you start the on the road to achieving that dream.
 
Learning to become a musician can be a life long journey.  You never arrive at an end point.  The journey is all about becoming more able to better express the ideas that happen inside our head.
 
Learning an art form takes patience.  It takes practice.  It takes disciple.  That means playing or practicing even when you don’t really feel like it. But ultimately it can be one of the most rewarding part of your life.
 
We will learn how to hold the sticks.  How to hit a drum.  How to read and play rhythms.  How to use these rhythms to create beats.  How to play these beats along to music.  How to create your own music.
 
Lets begin...
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Essential Beats Level 1 - Contents

18/3/2020

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Introduction and Technique

Stick Grip                                                   
5 Steps to Rebound Strokes         
Stick Control Exercises                             
Warms Ups                                                 
Checkpoint 1 
 
Chapter 1 
The Drum Kit
Drum Kit Notation
Check. Check 1, Check 1,2
Quarter Note Rock Rhythms 
Seven Nation Army 
Quarter Note Rhythm Reading 
Practice 
Little Talks 
Checkpoint 2 

Chapter 2
Eighth Note Rhythm Reading
Eighth Note Rests 
Dynamics 
Woody 
Under Control 
Eighth Note Rock Beats 
Eighth Note Rock Beats with Rests 
Boulevard of Broken Dreams 
Time Signatures 
Horn Rimmed 
Basic Rudiments 
Eighth Note Fills
Checkpoint 3 
Two Bar Rock Rhythms 
Sixteenth Note Rhythms 
Adding Dynamics 
Adding the Crash 
Pop song Form                                   
My Friends
21 Guns 
Flams 
Sweet Home Alabama 
Anthem For The Year 2000
Vary Your Beat 
Sixteenth Note Rhythm Reading
Dynamically Speaking
When I Come Around 
Sixteenth Note Fills 
Checkpoint 4  
The Learning Process 
Rhythmic Summary 1
Quinstop
Hit That 
Paradiddles Around the Drums                   Multi Perc - Dynamics                                   You Shook Me All Night Long                     Open Hi-Hat Grooves                                   Phrasing and Fills                                           Four and More                                                 Five Alive                                                         Checkpoint 5 
Chapter 3   
Eighth Note Triplet Rhythm                         12/8 Beats                                                       Fallin’ 
 Trois Chord                                                     Eighth Note Triplet Beats and Fills             Drum Solo #6 – Triplet Time                       Checkpoint  6 
Soul Full of Blues     
Gold on The Ceiling   
Shuffle Beats and Fills  
Drum solo #5 – Shuffly Time
            
12 Bar Blues  
Checkpoint 7
Jazz - Swing   
Pink Panther 
Jazz Beats and Fills 
Checkpoint 8
 
Chapter 4
Sixteenth Note Beats 
Sixteen Note Beat Songs
Without Me
16th Note Beats and Fills 
Rock with You
Checkpoint  9 
 
Chapter 5
Electronic Dance Music Beats 
¾ Time Beats
Drum Solo #9 – Punkin’ It Up
Drum Solo #7 – Blue Ballad
Level 1 Beats Summary  
Pop Song Form 
Finding The Right Drum Beat 
Popular Music Timeline  
 Checkpoint 10 
Glossary 

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Technique: Stick Grip

12/3/2020

 

Matched Grip

There is no right or wrong way to hold the drum sticks.  However there are a few common methods that the majority of the worlds players find helpful.  Below is an outline of the matched grip methods which have become the most common method since Ringo Starr appeared on the Ed sullivan show in 1964.

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German grip (click on video to watch in youtube)                   French Grip

Stick Grip - Traditional

11/3/2020

 

Taken from DRUM magazine Feb 2019

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5 steps to Full Strokes

10/3/2020

 
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Full Strokes can also be called 'Free Strokes' or 'rebound strokes'.  In this video we see some demonstrations of single hits (step 1) and then some quicker hits where we create some momentum to keep the stick in constant motion (step 3).   Try to think about allowing the wrist to follow the natural bound of the stick as you play.

Level 1 - Checkpoint 1

10/3/2020

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I can demonstrate German and French Grip

I can show rebound strokes in both hands
 
I can play rebound strokes along with the metronome
 
I can play eighth notes along with the metronome at tempos between 60 bpm to 120 bpm
 
I can move smoothly between singles strokes and double strokes while keeping a consistent sound and rhythm
 
I can play a single paradiddle with even sounding strokes
 
I can move smoothly between single strokes, double strokes, and a single paradiddle while playing eighth notes at 120bpm 

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Stick Control Exercises

10/3/2020

 
The concepts for this lesson come from the famous drum book 'Stick Control' by George Lawrence Stone.  It is a basic introduction to learning to control our hands and creating short patterns that we can memorise.  We can then play on the drum kit to create  new patterns.
Start by hitting each hand on a different surface to create two different sounds.
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Practice, practice practice

10/3/2020

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The single most important factor is practicing regularly.  20-30 minutes each day is ideal. Though as this is not always possible work out what is an achievable weekly routine for you.
 
A little bit of practice everyday will see more improvement than practicing for a long time only every now and then.

Here is a suggested routine that you can use for each practice session.
 
Warms ups
5 steps to full strokes - rebound strokes
Single strokes, groups of 2-8 on each hand.
Stick control exercises
Try playing the rudiments that you know along with a metronome to see how you are improving your speed.

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New Work

Your teacher will set several exercises or pieces of music for you to work on
during the week.  
The aim is to try to master these exercises, by gradually increasing the speed that you can play them each day.

Play Along with Music
Play exercises along with some recorded music.
Practice any songs that your teacher has set.

Revision
Play through any exercises or songs from past lessons
This is a good time to play some of your favorite rhythms or songs
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Chapter 1

9/3/2020

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Paradiddles around the drums

8/3/2020

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The Drum Kit

8/3/2020

 
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The Drum kit usually consists of 5 drums and 3 cymbals.  Smaller 18" bass drums are sometimes used in small Bebop Jazz drum sets.  In Rock bass drums are usually 20" or 22".  Snare Drums are usually 14" and can be made of either wood or metal.  Toms range in sizes from 8"-18".  Having only 1 mounted tom and one floor tom was common until the 70's.  Three toms is usual now.  Drum kits usually consist of a pair of 14" Hi-Hats, a 16' Crash cymbal, and a 20" Ride cymbal.  Some drummers have many more cymbals to expand there sound pallet.

Drum Kit Notation

7/3/2020

 
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Drums are usually written as notes, and cymbals are usually notated with X's
The Big drums are written down low in the stave and go higher as the drums get smaller. 
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Check,  Check 1...  1,2...

6/3/2020

 
.This little drum solo gets you practicing playing quarter note rhythms, working out where each drum is written, as well as four way limb coordination!
That's a lot to think about all at once.  Try looping each line until it is memorized.
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Quarter Note Rock Rhythms

5/3/2020

 
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Quarter Notes Rhythms and Rests

4/3/2020

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Click here to go Norm Weinbergs Web Rhythms where you can practice along with a rhythm track.  How fast can you play it?  Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, or Diamond?

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Seven Nation Army

4/3/2020

 
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Once you can play this version, you can try this one that includes the triplets in the the Chorus
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Little Talks

3/3/2020

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A fast quarter note rock beat will do the trick for this song
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Level 1 - Check Point 2

12/2/2020

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I can name all the drums and cymbals of the drum kit
 
I know where the drums and cymbals are commonly
written in the stave
 
I can play a Quarter note Rock Rhythm at 124bpm on the Ride, Hi-Hat, and Crash cymbals
 
I can play a quarter rock beat along with other musicians
 
I can play quarter notes rock beats with music in a song
 
I can play written rhythms containing quarter notes and rests
 
I can play along with the song Seven Nation Army with no
mistakes

 

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Chapter 2

5/2/2020

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Quarter and Eighth Note                Rhythm Reading

3/2/2020

 
In this lesson we will learn to read and play quarter and eighth note rhythms
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Woody

1/2/2020

 
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Sixteenth Note Rhythm Reading

30/1/2020

 
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Dynamically Speaking

29/1/2020

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Eighth Note Rock Beats

28/1/2020

 
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Once you have you can play and loop all of these beats, try playing along with this next lesson and putting them all together
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Eighth Note Rock beats with rests

27/1/2020

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If you can play the first page of Eighth Note Rock Beats, then its now time to try including some rests in the bass drum parts to create some more interesting rhythms.
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Once you can play and loop all these beats, try playing along with this lesson and putting them all together.
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    Contents



    Techniques
    ​ Stick Grip - matched
    ​                     - traditional
     Practice Practice Practice- Hand Warm Up's
    ​Checkpoint 1
    ​​
    Chapter 1
    5 Steps to Full Strokes
    Stick Control Exercises
    Paradiddles around the drums
    The Drum Kit
    -Drum Kit Notation
    Check, Check 1
    ​Quarter Note Rock Rhythms
    ​Seven Nation Army
    Quarter Note Rhythm Reading
    ​Little Talks
    ​Checkpoint  2 
    ​
    Chapter 2
    Eighth Note rhythm Reading
    Multi Perc solo - Woody
    ​
    Under Control
    16th Note Rhythm Reading
    8th  Note Rock Beats
    8th Note beats with Rests
    Boulevard of Broken Dreams
    Time Signatures
    Multi Perc solo - Horn Rimmed
    Basic Rudiments
    Eighth Note Fills
    Checkpoint 3
    21 Guns
    My Friends
    Sweet Home Alabama
    Two bar Rock Rhythms
    Dynamics Exercises
    ​Multi Perc - Dynamics
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    Multi Perc - Quinstop
    Adding the Crash Cymbal
    Flams
    Anthem for the Year 2000
    Vary Your Beat
    Sixteenth Note Rhythm       Reading
    Dynamically Speaking
    When I Come Around
    Sixteenth Notes Fills
    Four and More!
    Checkpoint 4
    The Learning Process
    Rhythmic Summary One
    Multi Perc solo - Quintstop
    Hit That
    Paradiddles Around the Drums
    Multi Perc Solo - Dynamics
    You Shook Me All Night 
    Open Hi Hat Beats
    Phrasing
    Five Alive - drum solo
    Checkpoint 5

    Chapter 3
    8th note Triplet rhythm reading
    12/8 Beats
    Fallin'
    Multi Perc solo - Trois Chord
    12/8 Fills
    Drum Solo #4- Triplet Time
    Check point 6
    Soul Full of Blues
    Shuffle Beats
    Gold On The Ceiling
    Shuffle Fills
    Drum Solo #5- Shuffly Time
    12 Bar Blues
    Checkpoint 7
    Jazz
    The Pink Panther
    Jazz Rhythm with fills
    Checkpoint 8

    Chapter 4
    16th note Beats
    16th Note Beat Songs
    16th Note Beats and Fills
    Blue Ballad - Drum Solo
    Without Me
    Rock With You
    Checkpoint 9

    Summary
    Basic Warm Up Routine
    EDM - Electronic Dance Music
    3/4 Beats
    Level 1 Beats - Summary
    Punkin' It Up - Drum solo
    Pop Song Form
    Finding the Right Beats
    Pop Music Timeline
    Checkpoint 10

    Categories

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    Beats
    Drum Solo
    Eighth Notes
    Fills
    Jazz
    Multiple Percussion Solo
    Phrasing
    Quarter Notes
    Rhythm Reading
    Rudiments
    Shuffle
    Sixteenth Notes
    Song
    Technique
    The Drum Kit
    Triplets

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