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Dear Drummer,

The number one aim of this site is to help you learn to play the drums better.

I am a drummer and am passionate about the drums and I want to help you play the drums better either as a complete beginner or as a more advanced student of the drums.

To that end I have put together this site together with lots of free drum information, drum articles, rating of classic drum instruction books, DVD's, video, etc. with my views on those you must buy to those that are nice to haves.

IF you are a beginner I can show you how to learn the drums based on my 4 principles of how to learn the drums in a fun way:

My 100 page ebook with 75 associated sound files will show you how

(Yes you need to hear drum beats while you are learning so that is why I have created so many sound files to help you hear and learn :-) )

Well my ebook is called:

"A Beginners guide to drumming; Everything you need to know to start playing the 7 most popular drums beats today!!"

This will get you started and here is what is in it

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1 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION 5
1.1 90% of music uses these 7 basic drum beats 5
2 A DRUM KIT PICTURE 10
3 HOW TO USE THIS E-BOOK 13
3.1 What are all those tables ? 13
4 THE 7 MAJOR DRUM BEATS 16
4.1 8th Note 4/4 Rock and Pop Beat 16
4.1.2 The Motown Train Beat. 20
4.2 Quarter Note Rock 22
4.3 16th Note Beats - Ballards and Dance Style 25
4.4 Slow 16th note beats / Ballard beats 25
4.5 Disco/Dance 16th Note Beats 27
4.6 Blues or 6/8 Beats 34
4.6.2 Triplets 37
4.7 Shuffle Beats 40
4.8 Jazz Beats 46
4.8.2 Jazz Feet Co-ordination 48
5 SYNCOPATION 50
5.1 Adding spice to your grooves with more bass drums 50
5.1.1 Bass Drum Variation 1 51
5.1.2 Bass Drum Variation 2 52
5.1.3 Bass Drum Variation 3 53
5.1.4 Bass Drum Variation 4 54
5.1.5 Bass Drum Variation 5 55
5.1.6 Bass Drum Variation 6 55
5.1.7 Snare Drum Syncopation 56
5.2 Syncopation in other drum beat styles 57
5.2.1 Bass Drum Variations in a Quarter Note Beat 57
5.2.2 Bass Drum Variations in a 16th Note Beats 58
5.3 Advanced Hand and Foot Syncopation 59
5.3.2 Bass Drum 16th Note Syncopation Variation 1 62
5.3.3 Bass Drum 16th Note Syncopation Variation 2 62
5.3.4 Bass Drum 16th Note Syncopation Variation 3 63
5.3.5 Bass Drum 16th Note Syncopation Variation 4 63
5.3.6 Bass Drum 16th Note Syncopation Variation 5 63
5.3.7 Bass Drum 16th Note Syncopation Full Bar- Variation 1 64
5.3.8 Bass Drum 16th Note Syncopation Full Bar- Variation 2 65
5.3.9 Bass Drum 16th Note Syncopation Full Bar- Variation 3 66
5.3.10 Bass Drum 16th Note Syncopation Full Bar- Variation 4 66
5.4 Some final words on Syncopation 67
6 USING THE HI-HAT TO GROOVE UP YOUR GROOVES 69
6.1 Disco/Dance 16th Note Beats using hi-hat open and closing 69
6.2 8th Note Beats using hi-hat open and closing 72
7 HOW TO PLAY DRUM FILLS 73
7.1 Expressing yourself as a musician 73
8 PLAYING SAFELY 78
8.1.1 Protect your hearing!! Use Earplugs 78
8.1.2 Sit up straight 79
9 SOME FINAL WORDS 82
10 APPENDIX 1 85
10.1 8th Note Rock and Pop Beat 85
10.2 Motown Train Beat 86
10.3 Quarter Note Rock Beat 87
10.4 Slow 16th Note Ballard Beat 88
10.5 Rammstein "Seeman" Syncopation example of a 16th Note Ballard Song 89
10.6 Single Stroke Roll to enable you to play fast 16th note disco and dance beats 89
10.7 Fast 16th note disco and dance beat 90
10.8 Fast 16th Note Dance Beat with opening hi hat and closing on beat 4+ 91
10.9 Fast 16th Note Dance Beat with opening hi hat and closing on beats 2 and 4 92
10.10 6/8 Blues Beats 93
10.11 Basic Shuffle Beat 94
10.12 Basic Jazz Beat 95
10.13 Feet for the basic Jazz Beat 96
10.14 Blank Drum Tabs for copying and making your own beats up 97
10.15 Listing of Sound Files and Cross References 98

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The ebook has 75sound files too so you can actually hear the beats I am teaching you to learn.

Just click on this link to

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/learntoplaydrums



to see if it is for you.

Alternatively, sign up for my newsletter (See the top left hand corner of this page) and get a free chapter on how to play the standard 8th note rock beat from my book. The most common drum beat in the world today.

If neither of those appeal to you, please feel free to download any of the music files and articles for you own learning use or to put up on your site if you do put on your site you must keep my copyright notice and give me a link back :-) Fair deal I think!.

New Stuff

Two new examples of me playing along to 8th Note and jazz beats Need to scroll to middle of the page you can download them and play along too

Well, I hope the site is helpful to you

Take Care and happy drumming

Rob

PS First up if you are a total beginner go here to my free lesson on the basic drum beats which you hear in nearly all songs played on the radio and on TV

PSS If you have any question please email me Rob@learn-to-play-drums.com with the words "not spam" in the subject. I love getting emails on the subject of drums and if I can help great!!

 

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