This page will guide you through this site’s free starter drum lessons collection. If you’re a beginner you can start learning how to play the drums right now.

This is the first in a series of online drum lessons for the very beginner. In this lesson you’ll get up to speed quickly by laying down a basic beat. You’ll also learn how to start practicing without a drum set. Beginning drum students are lucky that way. They can start learning before committing to  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  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  Read more »

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  Read more »