beginner

You can start to learn to play drums right away, without even owning a drum set.

Drums are a lot of fun to play, and every rock/pop band needs them. Since there are way more guitar players than drummers, drummers are in high demand. In fact, I started playing because my friends wanted to form a band, and couldn't find a drummer. So I decided to learn.  read more »

Continuing the series of online drum lessons, this time the concept of syncopation is introduces. And as in the previous online drum lesson, you are welcome to practice this one by tapping your hands and feet, or by using an actual drum set.

In music, the concept known as syncopation means playing or accenting a note that is offset from the regular beat. What this means for our drum practice here, is that we're going to play some snare notes in between the hi-hat notes.  read more »

In the previous online drum lesson, every four count the beat repeated exactly. In this lesson, the beat is going to repeat every eight count, but instead of counting to eight, we are going to count half beats like so, "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and...", where the 'and' indicates an inbetween half beat. Our beat is now going to be have an 8^th note feel, because the basic unit of count is an 8^th note.  read more »