Here are a load of midi files to help you with your drumming.

Feel free to download for educational use only. If you use one of my beats and make lots of money I expect a share of the royalties :-)

At present, I am working on the content. but slowly getting there!!!

Also, due to my poor Midi editing skills some of the midi files have a few seconds of empty space before the beat starts to play. sorry!

Click Tracks

Quarter note beat - midi file

Basic Rudiments (These are all at 80 bpm)

Single Stroke Roll

Double Stroke Roll

Paradiddle

Single stroke triplets

Basic Beats

Quarter note rock beat - midi file

Eighth (8th) note rock beat - midi file

Eighth (8th) note rock beat - wave file

Sixteen note ballad beat - midi file

Jazz beat

Shuffle beat

Basic Beats/Rudiments and the Associated Counts

Quarter note rock beat counted - MP3 file

Eighth (8th) note rock beat counted - MP3 file

Sixteenth (16th) note rock beat counted - MP3 file

Jazz beat counted - MP3 file

Shuffle beat counted - MP3 file

Double stroke roll using Mama Dada count - MP3 file

3 over 2 ployrhythm using "Nice Cup of Tea" count - MP3 file

More complicated beats based on the Basic Beats

Funk Beat based on a 8th note rock beat - No 1

Gradehall School of Music Exam Pieces

Grade 4 - Piece 2- Shuffin for four

Classic Drum Beats played by me

James Brown

Cold Sweat - Original Drummer Clyde Stubblefield - MP3

Oasis

Wonderwall (Drummer Alan White)

Red Hot Chilli Peppers ( Original drummer Chad Smith)

Give it away

Under the bridge (Final Verse Section)

Breaking the Girl

Classic Motown Beats

Motown Fills

Train Beat

Me playing along to some songs

Sweet - This is a play along track from the book "Berklee Practice Method Drum Set Get Your Band Together" that is a bit of a mouth full..... This is an mp3 and it loses the hi-hat sound a bit

Anyhow, this is a good example of a sold 8th note rock groove with lots of overplayed fills from me added in. FYI - I did this in one take so the beginning and ends are a bit ropy.

Sweet - full wave file at 30 megs so I suggest you save to your hard disk and go get a cup of coffee whilst you wait and then play it back

Stop Time - This is a play along track from the book "Berklee Practice Method Drum Set Get Your Band Together"

This is a good example of fast jazz tune and again I did this in one take and I got the end wrong!!

Stop Time - full wave file at 30 megs

 

Classic Drum Beats

Cold Sweat by James Brown with Clyde Stubblefield on drums -Midi file version

Play Along Bass Lines

Some tips to playing along if you are struggling to play along

FIrst listen to the line and feel the groove that the bass player has got going

Two, count along for a while if you can't seem to

Three, find the "one" and the "two" of the line

Four, stand up and dance to the bassline, if you can dance it you can drum to it.

8th Note bass lines are at 80 BPM.

8th Note Bass Line 80 BPM 01

8th Note Bass Line 80 BPM 02

8th Note Bass Line 80 BPM 03