The Ultimate Beginners Drum Course: How To Play Drums

1. Welcome!: Welcome to the ultimate beginner's drum course. My name is Matt from Crew tibia drums. I am so glad you've chosen its goals and chosen me to be your drum teacher. I hope you're pumped because I'm absolutely pumped to show you some awesome Bates, some drum rolls and snare exercises. We're going to play on the hats. We're going to arrive and apply around the kit. It's going to be so much fun. I love teaching and it's something I've just started doing pretty much full time. So before that, lots of touring and bands, lots of being in the drum studio, recording drums on the albums and stuff like that. But it's the teaching. I'm so happy and grateful to be teaching. And again, thank you for choosing me. 2. Introduction - Drum Names: This is a hybrid setup, which means I've got electronic drum pads and real acoustic symbols. Let's get into what the drums are actually called and also the symbols. What are their technical names? Let's start right here. This bad boy right here is called the snare. You recognize that, that is a recognizable drum right there. You hear it in a lot of music. It is the main snare. It's the main drum that just cracks through. Now, equally as important and equally as recognizable, it's the kick drum. We play that with our foot and it is also known as the bass drum. Okay. Moving along. Up here, we have Tom one or R one. A lot of sound engineers like to say, give us some R one, please. I've only really heard sound engineers call it c one. But Tom and then moving across here is Tom two. Tom Tom two down here, we have the floor. Kick snare two, for. That's it. If you don't have that, your setup might be snare one for kick. All good. 3. Introduction - Cymbal Names: So moving on to the symbols. Here we have the high hats. Also very recognizable, right? And that is on a stand, a high hat stand, and we can open and close the high hats with our foot. Like so. Moving up here, you probably have a crash symbol, and you may, if you're lucky, have a second crash symbol up around here somewhere. To keep it simple, I didn't go with the second crash, but I do have this little splash symbol, which was given to me by a friend of a friend because I loaned him my kit to go on tour with. He came back with my kit intact and this beautiful prototype symbol. That is what I'm going with just because I like it. It's not officially a crash, but you would probably have a crash up here. And like I said, you might have a second crash up here. And if you do, I'll talk about how to correctly hit that crash when you're playing a beat. But we'll get into that later when I talk about technique. Okay? Now, over here, this big symbol here, it's called the ride symbol. Fairly loud. I even tried to hit it nice and softly then. Now, up here, we have the ride bell or just the bell. And that's it. That is our setup that we are going to be learning the drums on, okay? 4. Introduction - Positioning: Now, I'd like to talk about the positioning of your drum set. Firstly, you want to be sitting with the snare in between your legs. You want to be sitting, so it's nice and snug in there, and the rest of the toms, you want fairly close to you as well. You don't want to be learning how to play drums, and the toms are all ones out there and ones over there and you're reaching. You've got a symbol right up here. I don't know, it makes it more difficult for yourself doing that. I found as the years went on, my kit became closer and closer and closer and more compact and it improved my playing. So you should be able to skewer around the kit. You shouldn't be doing any reaching like that. You might have a little bit of a reach to at your crash symbol, but that's it. Everything else is nice and compact, nice and relaxed. It's it's the only way to go. Just stretching and reaching too difficult. Okay. So with the high hats over here, I'd like to have them not too high and not too low. Reason being at they're too high. When you go to play on top, just like that, you can be playing up here, and that's not easy. You're going to get heavy arms if you're playing all the way up here like this. They're too low. If you've got high hats all the way down here and you're trying to play a snare drum, you're going to end up clunking your hands together. So it's personal preference, but wherever you feel is a good height so you can play on top and also fit that snare underneath the hand as you're hitting the hats, that's a perfect height. 5. Introduction - Posture: Posture. Okay. This is a really important one. We do not want to form habits where we're crouching forward or leaning backwards, and we don't want any bad posturehabits, so they're going to be really hard to break. So let's avoid those and get really good posture right from the get go. Let's start with how we're sitting. We want a nice straight back, and we don't want our lower back or any part of our back hunched over. If we're nice and straight, it's actually going to strengthen our lower back and we'll be out of play for longer, and it'll also avoid any back injuries. 6. Introduction - Arms And Hands: Let's talk now about our arms and hands. It's so important these are nice and relaxed. We don't want our fists clenched around our sticks, and we don't want our elbows tucked into our sides. That's just going to create so much tension and it's going to make it really difficult for you to play for a long period of time. You want to be nice and relaxed. So first shake our arms out and we position our elbows just out from our sides a little bit. We don't want them right up here. They'll feel like heavy weights after a while. And like I said, we don't want them tucked in. So just like this and also, this is sort of doubles this technique, but we want sort of like a diamond shape, okay? And we want to be out to sea, our wrists going up and down like that with barely any movement in our forearms. All right. So we've got this nice diamond shape happening. Our elbows are out a little bit. Our back is nice and straight, and that's it. You're going to have good posture. If you can get into a habit of doing those things, you're going to be fine. 7. Introduction - Technique & Stick Grip: Technique is next. This is really important and really important you get on top of this early. You don't want to form bad habits of holding the sticks really weird or playing in a way that's going to make you really fatigued. My tips for really good technique would be holding the stick firstly with your thumb and your index finger and you're choosing a point in the stick which feels comfortable for you. Now, my advice would be not to hold it up here halfway down stick and also not to hold it right down the bottom either. You want to come in around the quarter to a third mark around there. It's going to feel nice and not awkward. It's going to have a good bounce to it, it's just bouncing off these three fingers here. These three fingers are just for support. You definitely don't want to be clutching onto it like that. That's going to create a tension in your entire arm, and you're not going to be out of play for very long and it's just going to feel wrong. You want to be nice and relaxed in your forearm and all the work is going to be done in the wrists with your thumb pointing to the ceiling and your index finger, keeping a good strong grip. These really don't do much. They're just there for support when it does bounce around. Okay? There you go. Now, notice too with those hits, I'm not bringing my hand right back up after every hit, and I'm definitely not leaving it there. You don't want to do that when you're hitting the snare drum. You just want to have a natural bounce back. 8. Introduction - Playing The Hi Hats: We've covered the snare drum and how to hit that correctly. With that technique, hitting the snare drum correctly, that goes with the toms as well, obviously. You want to keep that nice movement in the wrists. It also goes for when you're playing on the hats. Nice and relaxed on the hats. Speaking of the hats, there's a couple of different ways you can hit them. You can hit them on top with the tip of the stick. Like that, or you can hit it on the side of the stick and the side of the hats. Now, in this course, when I'm teaching you beats, the latter on the side is where you will be playing the hats. 9. Introduction - Kicking Technique: Next, I want to talk about kicking technique. Now, every single drummer on the face of the Earth when they are learning starts by just flat heel down and just using the front of the foot, just to press up and down. The heel is just plastered there. You're just sort of going to do tu. Now, that's fine, but you want to break out of that habit really quickly or not let it become a habit, I should say, because that is going to get you really tense in your calves and you're not going to be out to play for very long. What really, really helps and what nearly all drummers end up doing because that means they can play longer is by lifting your entire leg up and down. Your knee should be going up a couple of inches and down. You should see going up and down like that. And same when you're playing the foot, the high hat foot, sorry. Up and down. Up, open, down, closed. 10. Introduction - Swipe The Cymbals: If you are hitting a symbol, you do not want to be You don't want to be stabbing it because there's a few reasons for that. The most important one and the most upsetting one is when your symbol cracks. Especially as a new drummer when you're learning this instrument, you don't want to be trying to fork out heaps of money to get a symbol replaced. You can get a little crack cut out, but it's only temporary, that crack will reappear and. The best thing is avoiding having your symbols crack at all. The way to do that is to swipe your symbols like this. Here we go. Now, I'm exaggerating a bit so you can see how it's done, but that's basically it. And if you have a crash symbol over here and you're playing a beat on that crash symbol. Co. You definitely want to be swiping and not stabbing at it like that. 11. Introduction - Reading Drum Notation: Sheet music. Really? Drummers need to learn sheet music. Well, yes, but just a little bit. Just the basics at this point, I'm not going to overwhelm you with crazy symbols and lines and squiggles all over the place. I am providing you with really simple sheet music throughout this course, right now, I'm going to bring up the reading drum notation sheet that I've provided. I'm going to pop it on the screen, I'm going to talk you through it, okay? All right. So if we look here, we've got five train tracks or five lines going from the left all the way to the right of the page. This four four here is the time signature. In this example, it'll be four beats per measure across four measures or bars, to measure and bar pretty much the same thing. This first measure is just a straight rock beat, which you're going to learn. And you'll see at the top, if we count one and two and three and four, and that makes eight, and there's eight little crosses up the top, which means eight high hat hits. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Okay, so moving back to the left here, you've got a kick drum at the same time as the hats. If we move across, the next hit or beat will be just a hat by itself. And we move along to the third one, that is a hat with a snare hit. Moving along again, we have a single hat. And then a kick with the hat. Another single hat, hat and snare, and then a single hat again. So just that first half sounds like this. I'll play that again and just have your eye follow from the left to the right as I'm playing one, two, three, four. All right. The second half of the page, you'll see R L L L. Obviously, that just means right left, right left, right left, right left. So this is an example of a single stroke role, which we're going to learn and turn into cool fields later on in this course. In this case, it's all being hit. Every single hit is on the snare drum, and there is a kick on the right, left right, left, then another kick on the right, left, right, left. So that one will sound like this. And again. And that will pretty much do for now. That's the basics. That's all you really need to know to get through this beginners course. 12. Introduction - A Simple Stretch: I'm going to show you a really quick and simple stretch of the four arms to make you nice and loose and relaxed before a drum session. All you do stick your arm out like that, get your other hand and push the fingers back. It's like 90 degrees. Straightaway, you feel a burn a good burn, like a stretch along the forearm. Let's just count a four in drum timing. One and two and three and four, and shake it out. Instantly feels nice and floppy and relaxed and do the same again with the other arm. One and two, and three and four. And that's it. I feel so much more relaxed. I'm ready to rock out on the drums. 13. Lesson 1: Rnd 1 - The Rock Beat: The Rock bait. This is the very first drumbeat I was ever shine when I was a whale add all those many, many years ago. When it came together, when I was getting that kick and snare, kick and snare and our member that thrill. I was so excited I ran back home to my parents house and with Dan, UNAIDS play drums. I'll is that excited and pumped? I had to play drums. Unfortunately, they were really supportive of that, so I was able to get mine kit, blah, blah, blah. The rest is history, 20 plus years. Landa, I'm here teaching drums to you. And we're going to start with this very bait, okay, and we're going to stop over on the hi-hats, 12341234. And so we just bring the hands and we'll bring in the peak lines, 123412341. What you find with me? 341234. All right. So you've got those hi-hats happening, standing, good, confidence. Now we're going to add the kick drum on the one. Okay, so that's going to be 1234123412312. Play along with me gag. And 2343 and pull it in. 234. All right, so now we're going to add the second cake on the three, okay, and so that's going to go kick and 2 and kick and for n kick and kick. And for ready. 12341231231234. All right. So you've got that kick drum happening on a 13. Now it's time to dropping a snare hit on the two. Alright, it's going to sound like this. 1234123412341341234. And so if you're not getting that straight away, that's totally fine and understandable because I remember when I was starting to learn this bait and also from saying my students that I've taught, when he bring that snaring, your brain goes, Oh, there's a snake head bed. Apply that on the three as well. And it ends up sounding like this in a man. And you know, it's not your fault. It's the Brian trying to figure it out. Okay, this, this instrument that's all about independence. It's about taking your right leg to do something completely different to your left arm. And it's, it's not easy. Alright, so you're not supposed to get this bait straightaway. Hanging that. All right. Now it's time to drop in another snare drum on the four. Now this will complete a drumbeat again, and it's going to sound RAD. You'll feel great when you're actually playing this bait smoothly. And then we can bump it up to 70 BPM. And okay, here we got 1234123413. And we'll kick and snare and the kick and snare advocate buying. Good. 1234. Great stuff. You're applying, the rock bass or the standard battle, the bikes obeyed or whatever you wanna call it, I like to call it the rock bake. You applying that at 60 BPM along with me. So what 14. Lesson 1: Rnd 2 - Jamming at 70 BPM: It's time now to move up to 70 BPM and we're going to play back and forth. Okay, So this is our first of many back and forth sessions throughout this course. So what we're going do is I'm going to apply kick and snare and kick and snare and kick and snare and kick and snare end. And then seamlessly, you're gonna take over and play the second half. Okay. Last one. Her eyes, your first back and forth with me. I'm pumped. That's the first of many 70 BPM. The rock bade. Time to move on to the next round. 15. Lesson 1: Rnd 3 - Jamming at 80 BPM: The final round of less than one we've learned is paid at 60 beats per minute. We've gone back and forth at 70 beats per minute. Now our goal is to go back and forth again at 80 beats per minute. Are you ready? Are you holding your sticks? Are you warm now? Let's do this. Good. Last one. That's it. Congratulations. Less than one done and dusted. Time to move on to lesson two. 16. Lesson 2: Rnd 1 - The Rock Beat with Kick Variations: Here we are listened to. You've just completed your first rock bait. Very proud of you, that is awesome. So now it's time to add some kick variations to that same. Okay, Now we're going to jump back down to 60 beats per minute while we're learning these extra cakes that we're going to go back and forth, that's 70. And then a goal will be back and forth that IT just like we did in less than one. Okay, here we go. 123 or two islands. Hey, you ready? One, 234. Let's move on to lie and click Add. Once again, join in when you're ready. And 234 for heat. And we'll get t. T. T. T. Great work. Okay, We're down to line number four. Now. Here we go. Let's jump straight into it. This is going at, before we jump straight into it, this is going to have a couple of rests, okay? That one was king. Now this one's at that spot. It's going to have a couple of risks, okay, we're playing a less this time. So you might think, Wouldn't that be ESEA? Will say, some people find that MCS, some people find it much harder to play with space in there drumming, okay, have a listen first and then join in 234 and y. Join him. Then. Theory data. The very bottom line, this one again has a couple of rest setup and the kid comes in a bit lighter. That second kick, right. Here we go. 1234. All right. That was not the last line. I'm going to throw in a bonus line now, which is a combo. The fourth and the fifth line, the last two lines, we just play it again. By the way, you were doing honorable. If you are at this point, keep going. If you ever get stuck or if it gets a bit overwhelming or confusing or your legs don't go on the right spot. Your arms don't weird stuff. Just k playing till it starts to feel comfortable. Definitely don't jump up to 70 or 80 until you've nailed 60, okay. And you can play along with me. All right. Let's go. Here is the special bonus paper ready? 1234. A lot of you, OK. And I said you can play along if you like, but I really do hope you are playing along to that guy. Because if he were and if he noted, we're ready to move on, My friend. Let's do it. 17. Lesson 2: Rnd 2 - Jamming at 70 BPM: All right, we're at 70 BPM now and we're going to go back and forth the case, it's time to jam together again. So I'm gonna play the top-line. Soon as I finish. You're going to play the top line as well. And it's going to be seamless, no gaps. We are just going to jam together from the top of the page all the way to the bottom without stopping. And I'm going to click you through to just, I just want you to get used to playing to a clinic. It's so important, but I won't go into that now. It's just so important. All right, so here we go. Top line, all the way to the bottom line. Ready? Three. Ready? Go. All right. Well done. Let's crank it up now. Okay. Yeah. You feeling pretty good at 70 beats per minute back and forth. Now let's crank it up to 80 beats per minute. 18. Lesson 2: Rnd 3 - Jamming at 80 BPM: There's a guy from top to bottom, UIMA back and forth, ID bytes per minute. For God. During right. Good stuff. We can find yellow stuff out like while you're drumming. I hope it's helpful you off, I'm just getting a bit excited. All right, so I hope you can feel that energy, that excitement, that I'm putting it out there because it's not false, it's real. I absolutely love playing this instrument and I want you to love playing this instrument to so on that if it ever gets overwhelming, just like I said, just jump back to 70, jump back to 60. Take your time with it. Again. You don't have to rush through this course. Spend as much time as you need on each round. All right, anyway, congrats, we have done less than two time to move on to lesson 3. 19. Lesson 3: Rnd 1 - The Rock Beat with Snare Variations: Stare drum variations. So less than two, we got kicking with it. We added a whole bunch of cool kick rhythms. Which Cretan, it's great. It's snazzy is up the strike bait. Now it's nothing wrong with the striped bass. I CDC's drama absolutely loves it, pretty much applies at every song. He makes it sound unbelievable and it suits the music, but I digress, we are on to snare variations now. Ok, So at the top of your worksheet, lesson 3, we're going to go line by line. I'm just going to play through H line a couple of times and then hopefully you'll join it. All right, here we go. 123. Now if these are awkward and it's not happening, That's okay. Slow it down even more than 60 BPM. Just play it as slow as you need to in order to get those hits happening in the right spots. Again. 1234. Lie Number 3. This is a pretty fun one. Kick, kick, snare, snare, kick, kick, snare. You can really, really hit this one really hard if you want to. But don't lose that technique. You don't want to Stephanie off and hitting Assad is again, just I just say you can hit hard because this is a fun one. Here we go. 1234. Line four. I hope you're enjoying this. I'm having a lot of fun stations here. This one actually is a bit special. It starts with snare hit, Okay, Do bar. Instead of starting with that kick, this actually leads with the snare drum. Right? Here we go. All right, We're down to the fifth and final line of snare variations are up. So this one again starts with a snare hit, and it also has four snare hits in a row. Now the beta itself is with Fresnel hits, but because we're doubling it and it starts with a snare, that's gonna total for, I'll show you what I mean. Or are you ready to play along? Just jump in with me a day or let's do it in 234 As and you've just completed that round. Great stuff. All right, so now next, we are going to be going back and forth at 70 beats per minute. 20. Lesson 3: Rnd 2 - Jamming at 70 BPM: Are you ready to Jan this one out with me? We're going back and forth at 70 beats per minute. Okay? So once again, that means I apply the top line and you play the top line. As soon as I finish, then I move on to the second, second, third, third, and so forth till we get to the bottom of the page. I already got two sticks. You want this? 234? Do I go? But just realize I applied that fourth snare hit right at the end there, which is your is your supposed to hit that. I hope you did anyway, just hit at the same time as me hit allies and hard drown that fourth hit of mine out because that is your one. Anyway, we've done 70 beats per minute time to move on to the next round. 21. Lesson 3: Rnd 3 - Jamming at 80 BPM: Here we go, 80 beats per minute. Are you ready? Back and forth you and may, Let's go faster than this. Reheat. And up talking for me now. 1234. Hi. Lesson 3 is done. You've done on rail. Let's move on to the next lesson. 22. Lesson 4: Rnd 1 - Kick & Snare Variations - Jamming at 70 BPM: So here we are in lesson 4, combining it all. So everything we've learned from the straight rock beat with kicked variations to the snare variations. We're going to combine it all. Okay, So first half kick pattern's, second half snare. So we're gonna go down the page at the moment. I'm not going to show you the more line by line because we've covered them in the previous lessons. What we're gonna do is we're going to jump straight into back and forth. You and I at 70 beats per minute. X2 and X3 and X4. Why do I write sacred line? You did it unreal, top to bottom plate along with me back and forth. I didn't throw in that bonus paid at the end there. And if that 30 of your game a bit, I apologize, but that's why I applied it again. So the NAD you wouldn't notice the apply that bonus be twice, which isn't written on your shade. So rewind, have another go at it. But if you're super confident at 70 BPM, if you're really happy with what you just did and you're ready to jump up to 80 beats per minute. Well, it's time. Let's do it. 23. Lesson 4: Rnd 2 - Jamming at 80 BPM: So we're gonna go from the top of the shade to the bottom, back and forth again, this time at IZ beats per minute. Lesson 4 is complete. You did it. I'm sorry. Oh, this is so exciting. I'm pumped. That is the that is the RootPane in all its entirety with a whole bunch of different cake variations. Because snare variations, hedging, combining the two just then at 70 and then an IT. We are ready to move on to the next lesson. 24. Lesson 5: Rnd 1 - Adding An Open Hi-Hat (Part 1): So you're about silane had a bit of flavor to that rock bed. Okay, we're going to play a nice open hi-hat sound, which is simply lifting your leg, whichever leg is sitting on your hi-hat stand. And it's going to sound like this. And that because that nice loud open hat ringing sound. Okay. Now to keep that going, not what we're after the moment, we're gonna give it north closing sound on the very next bake. Now, you're just going to play along with me slyly. And we're going to count 1, 2, and 3, and 4. And the end before the toe rod at the stopband. So one end is way we're going to open the hats by rising left leg. One, play alone, 4123412341234. And so if you're not getting that, it might help to think D2 is where you foot goes back down. Okay, So that's who it's going to have that closed hi-hat sound and the end right before that. So it's going to be that it's open sound 12341, close, and 341. Close in, 341, close in 341, EGN 3, and 4. And okay. So now you've got the hang of that opening and closing on the hats. We're going to bring in the kick on the one and the k. So big kick and close and 34 and kick open, close and 34. And here we go. Ready? Can I say 1234 and take the clothes and 34 gig and propose and 34 and big toe is in 30, Jake close and 34123 and pull and 1231231234 and all right. So next, we're going to bring in the other KYC, which is on the three I already, 12341234123412341234. And good. Now it's time to dropping that snare on the CSU. So the snare is going to come in at the same time that we are lowering foot and closing that open hat sound. So it's going to sound like this. Qc, KC. So that's coming in both hands down. Okay. Kick and kick. So just practice that by itself. 1234343434 and 34. And so I purposely left out that second kick on the three. So I just want to simplify this as much as I can. But now, once you've got that, you can add that three, that can add that kick. Okay. One and 230 and kick. And three in both Jake and free, and there will be 33 and pull as Jake and 323 and log n. Well done. So we're just adding the open hi-hat to a striped rugby. And now I think we can try something a little sneaky. We're going to open the hi-hat a bit later on in the bait. So we're going to open it on the end, 34 and 25. Lesson 5: Rnd 2 - Adding An Open Hi-Hat (Part 2): So before we were doing the one, ooh. Now we're going to be going 12341234 and just play it nice and quietly for you there second here, what am I counting? So that's before we're going. We're closing with the snare. This time we're closing it with that kick on three. Let's go. 123412. All speak in 412341234124. A good ON and 234. And so if that's feeling a bit awkward or tricky, something you can remember is on that end 33, both fate coming down at the same time. Say end. You left ones coming up and on three. So you think I'm a dad and a closed hi-hat hit, have another listen. 123 and array 12341. And so, but fh and 412341234. And Nice job. I got time to bring in that snare. I already 123413412312341234. And they have it. You're playing the rock bait with nice tasty open hat feel. Okay. If it takes you a little while to get that perfectly fine, you're not suppose to just pick it up in real time with me as I'm playing it. You can go over it and over it as many times as you like. That is the beauty of having this course in this format. All right, let's move on. 26. Lesson 6: Rnd 1 - Your First Drum Fill: It is time to line your very first drum fill. I'm pretty excited about this are men, but being excited when I first jumped behind bucket, not just letting a bait, but thinking how to play drum fill. I want to get around the kid on and everyone who doesn't want to play a drum fill, right? So here we go. I'm gonna give you three words, which is the key to learning a nice controlled drum filled. And they are single stroke roll. So the single stroke roll is simply rot, lift, lift, lift and so forth. If you're a lefty, left rod, left drug, you want to lead with the preferred hand. Okay. So on a not strike back, we don't want to be slashing law is and we definitely don't want elbows AFI like chicken wings. And we definitely don't want I elbows tucked into time because then that's going to create a real tension in the applying. And you'll get Todd really quickly and it's just not good, not good at all. So what we want is we want to elbows slightly out from all sides. And we want to really pay attention to our wrists should all be in the risks that can grow. There will be some natural forum movement. You won't be able to help that. But what we don't want is a room taught sort of grape on a stinks like that. And using out all often goes, really should just be pinching with the index finger and the thumb. And the guy. These are just here for support. They've three fingers here. Alright, so let's get into it. We're going to start off playing really slowly. You can either join in stride away with me. We can have a bit of a listen first and then come in when you're ready. Hacker. Here we go. Right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left. Knots to slowly. Right, Let It Rock, let It Rock, let It Rock. Now I'm going to speed up a little bit of guy is gradually speedup and you're going to play along with me. I've started the state process and relaxed. It's been off a little ball. Good. And going down to 10 soft just because we're speeding up should be Nostra relax and your forearms. 4321 step. Great work. You're playing along with me. Nice and slow, nice and controlled with slowly spit up together. And now in this next round, we're going to play to 60 beats per minute. I'm gonna check my click track back in. And you're just going to play along with me. A guy here we got coming up is around, so. 27. Lesson 6: Rnd 2 - Playing the Single Stroke Roll: Okay, 60 beats per minute, single stroke roll. We're going to apply it together, nice and controlled. Okay, here we go. 1234. Hello. 28. Lesson 6: Rnd 3 - Adding the Kick Drum: Great work. We're at round three now. We're playing 60 BPM again, but we're going to add the kick drum on the 1234. Okay. So it's gonna go kick and kick, and kick and kick. And are you ready? One, 234. 29. Lesson 7: Rnd 1 - Your First Drum Fill Around The Kit - Jamming at 70 BPM: Oh yeah, this is where the drum fuel comes to life. Okay, we'd been playing it on the snare drum and that's all good. Sounds fine. But now we're going to introduce the tons and we're going to be playing around the kid and Okay. Now if you don't hit the second Tom here, you've got snare, Rac 1 and floor brac one or Tomlin. Then all you have to do is at the end of each exercise, you'll be ending back on the snare. So say it. Right, left, right, left, right, left. You would play. So you still going in that circle motion. Okay. So first, I want to have something I should probably tell you. We've been going. Now I'm going to turn the volume up on my metronome because we're going to do twice as many hits. I'm springing the Sonya. I'm very sorry. But they gotta make off-field sound so much more tasty. Alright, sounds tasty. They're just going to be awesome. All right. We're going to start at the top of the page And we're gonna go back and forth at 70 beats per minute. So I'm going to play the top-line. You'll play the top line. Then I'm going to repeat the top-line arrives. This is going to last twice as long as the previous ones we've done together. Okay. So top-line may topline you to apply in May to apply new. Then I'll move down to the second line. Okay. One and 234. And good. You're doing right? Now as we're 70 beats per minute or reallocate back and forth with me. We are now ready to move on to 80 beats per minute. 30. Lesson 7: Rnd 2 - Jamming at 80 BPM: In my ears right now I'm hearing tick, tick, tick, tick, tick can see contiguity. It beats per minute. That is where our app, my friend, you've just now that at 70, playing around the kid back and forth with me, I'm going to turn this up. We're going to jump straight into 80 beats per minute. Sign. Dale, I'm gonna apply a top one. You apply it. I'll repeat this outline. You play it again. Like i, we're gonna go from top to bottom here. I got ID beats per minute. 1234. Look at you guys. It beats per minute. Awesome, absolutely awesome. Modern biology. This is a beginners drum calls. So, uh, you doing IT beats per minute around the kit back and forth with me is just truly awesome. So don't stop. Let's keep going. You are ready for the next lesson. 31. Lesson 8: Rnd 1 – Fun Snare Exercise - Playing The Kick & Snare Simultaneously: Okay, I'm about show you one of my favorite warm up exercises. This can either be applied just on the snare. It also sounds really cool around the kit. But the best part is you don't even they'd sticks for this. You could be sitting in the living room just tapping it out on the NAs. Okay, so what I will mention that before we jump straight in is this is the first time you will be playing. A left hit. If your right hand up while the rot Keq is going might feel really awkward like I. So what we're gonna do initially is we're going to go right, left, right, left. And there's a kick on every single strike. So let's just practice that first. 32. Lesson 8: Rnd 2 – Play along at 60 BPM: We're at 60 beats per minute. And we've got the kick going through the whole exercise. Okay, here we go. 1234. 33. Lesson 9: Rnd 1 – Fun Snare Exercise Around The Kit – Play along at 70 BPM: A ready to apply this around again? Now, this is where it gets really fun. Here we go. 1234. Hi. 34. Lesson 9: Rnd 2 – Play along at 80 BPM: We're at the Fano round of this lesson. I've just cranks the meshing. I'm up to 80 BPM. Don't get freaked out about that. That is our goal tempo. But if you can't do that, if it takes you wakes to do that and that's completely fine. It's beauty about this course you can take as long as you need to take. So we're going to jump in that ID based Dan Bates, PMP, beats per minute. I you're ready? 1234. Yes. You are absolutely smashing this. You've just played. It beats per minute around the kid. This is awesome. You are now free to move on to the next lesson. 35. Lesson 10: Rnd 1 – The Grand Finale! – Playing on the Ride cymbal: We are here at the grand finale, the end of the course. You have done such an incredible job to get yourself to this point. Don't care if it's taken you a week or two years. You are here, and we're going to rock out one last time. So if you look at your sheet, your PDF, you'll see that the first half of the line is though it's kick drum variation beats we're doing. The second half is going to be drum fills around the kit. Now, we are not going to be playing them on the hats. Amore, we're going to go and move over to this guy here, you might have thought I'd forgotten about him, the ride. I had not forgotten about the ride. Saving the best till last, okay? So this guy is the feature of our round one grand finale. Here we go at 80 beats per minute. Round one of the grand finale. One and two, and three and four. And just like that, round one is done. You've completed it. There's only one more round to go in this entire course, which makes me kind of sad. Cause I've had a great time doing this. I hope you've enjoyed learning from me. I've really enjoyed being your tutor, so check out my next course if you want to keep going with this style of learning. And you can hit me up, contact me if you ever need to ask me anything about your drumming, anything at all. Hit me up. I'm here. 36. Lesson 10: Rnd 2 – Playing on the Floor Tom: All right. Round two, the grand finale. This is it. Course complete after this. We're going to be playing on the floor too we're going to be doing those snare variation grooves from earlier on in the course in the first half. The second half of the line is going to be drum fill around the kit. Now, before we get into it, I just want to say thank you so much for having me as your teacher. I've really enjoyed teaching you these grooves. I hope you've got a lot out of this course, and I'd love for you to continue your drumming, whether it's with me or someone else. Obviously, I would love to be your drum teacher. But I want to see you keep going, okay? So check out any follow up course I might have. And also, feel free to contact me if you ever need to ask me anything about your drumming. Okay? Anything at all. So on the floor, Tom, here we go. 80 beats per minute and turn the volume up in my metronome. Who, that's loud. Okay, one last time. Here we go. One and two and three and four. Okay. Okay. And we are done. Congratulations. You've completed the entire course now. You are free to take a break because I'm assuming you did the whole course in one sitting. You must be starving, you must be so. In all seriousness. This has been great. I hope you continue on with me as your drum teacher because I would love to have you as a student and see your skills get better and better and better. Thanks again. This has been awesome. Take care.