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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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    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
    ​
    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

    All
    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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