Learn To Play The Drums by Udemy
Become a drummer with a step by step programme to get you from being drumming novice to drumming expert
Course Highlights
- Learn different Rhythms that make up everything we play on the drums
- Learn to play Rudiments - Patterns that are the building blocks of drumming
- Learn to play Rock Grooves - Impress your friends with your excellent beats
- Learn how to play along to Popular Songs
- Learn different Styles of Drumming - Latin, March, Blues, Reggae
- Learn Theory of Drum Music and how to read Drum Notation
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
5 Topics
Hello and Welcome - Get Started with Learning the Drums!
Drum Stick Grip - How to hold your sticks correctly
The Anatomy of the Drum Kit - Learn the names and how it sounds
Hitting the Drums - Make some noise & how to get a good tone
Right vs Left - Right handed or left handed?
6 Topics
Quarter Notes - Start Playing Simple Rhythms Using All The Drums
Eighth Notes - Your Next Rhythm Using Both Hands
Drum Notation - What You Need To Know So Far - Read Drum Music
We Will Rock You by Queen - Bass Snare & Floor Tom Rock
Rudiments: Snare Drum Rhythms - Single Strokes Double Strokes & Paradiddles
The Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? - Bass Drum and Snare Drum Quarter Notes
20 Topics
The Click explained - What it is and how it can help with your playing
Practice playing with the click - practical playing practice
Practice playing with a song - Do I Wanna Know? by the Arctic Monkeys
The Rock Groove - The Most Impressive Coordination Exercise So Far!
Learn how to play the Cross Stick / Rim Click technique
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds - Learn how to play Reggae
Playalong Track: Black Betty - Learn to Play a Whole Song
Rock Grooves A - D - Grooves For Life!
Yellow by Coldplay - Rock Grooves Using All the Cymbals
Sixteenth Notes - The Most Rhythmic Rhythm So Far... 1e+a...
Queen - We Will Rock You - A Rock Classic
Van Halen - And The Cradle Will Rock - Half Bar Fills and Ride Cymbal Grooves!
Sixteenth Notes - Three note rhythms - 1e+_ 1_+a & 1e_a.
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson - A simple Rock Groove with some added Fills
The Wombats - Jump Into The Fog - Floor Tom Grooves for the Chorus
I Believe I'll Dust My Broom by Robert Johnson - Play the Blues!
Rudiments: Singles Doubles & Paradiddles Using the Toms
Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson - A Funk Pop Modern Classic
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes - Thumping Beats to Guitar Riffs
Rhythm Recap Played Around The Drums - Add Different Combinations
28 Topics
Bass Drum Foot Technique: Heel Up or Heel Down? Both Techniques Explained
Rudiments: Singles Doubles & Paradiddles using the Bass Drum and Snare Drum
Float On by Modest Mouse - Four to the Floor and 16th note grooves
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River - Retro Quarter Note Rock Grooves
Sing for Absolution - Muse - 8th Note Rock Grooves on the Floor Tom
Rolling Stones - Jumpin Jack Flash - 2 Bar Rock Grooves
Part 1 Playback Test - Listen Read & Play in time with the track
2 Bar Loops - Rock Grooves and Fills
Linear Snare and Bass Drum 8th Notes Rhythms - Test Your Coordination
Brown Eyes by Lady Gaga - Play a 2 bar rock loop along with Gaga
Rock Grooves E - H - Add some offbeats Bass Drums to your Grooves
Learn to play Rock Grooves on the Ride Cymbal & add a Left Foot Hi Hat!
Dynamics and Accents - Make your drumming more interesting!
Latin - Learn how to play the ride bell properly and the left hand pattern
Notation: Time Signatures - How Many Beats in a Bar?
March - Learn how to play a march pattern whilst keeping a consistant bass drum
The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles - Rock with a March Section!
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere - March style rhythms with a Rock ending
3/4 - Learn how to play a groove in a different time signature
16th Note Fills Played Around the Kit - Get Good At Playing Around Your Drums
Play Rock Grooves with different 16th note Fills around the Drum Kit
Flams - Make your playing 'Fatter'
Drags - Develop this rudiment and your double strokes
Ruffs - Learn this rudiment and improve your single strokes
Quarter Note Grooves - Learn how to play Rock Grooves in another way
Rock Grooves A - D played as Quarter Note Rock
Rudiments: Singles Doubles & Paradiddles with Toms & Bass Drum
12/8 Time Signature Style Grooves
20 Topics
Billy's Top Tip #1 - Drum Thone/Stool - Never Fall Off Stage!
Setting Up Your Drum Kit - How to do it the most efficient and safe way
Double Paradiddle
Paradiddle-Diddle
Flam Rudiments: Flam Tap
Flam Accent
8 Note Sequence of Single Strokes and Double Strokes - Test Your Rudiments!
Displaced Snare Drum Rock Grooves
Groove I
Groove J
Groove K
Groove L
How to Play a Shuffle Groove
Triplet Fills
8th Note Rock Grooves A - P Played as a Shuffle
Open Hi Hats 1 - Add some Hi Hat Sizzle to your Playing!
Coldplay - In My Place
'Yesterday Threw Everything At Me' by Athlete - Add a 16th note Snare in Groove
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz - Rock Out with Flams!
Natural Blues by Moby - 16th Note Grooves and Punctuated Rudiments!
9 Topics
Groove M
Groove N
Groove O
Groove P
Half Time Grooves - 8 Grooves with the backbeat on 3
Open Hi Hats 2 - More advanced Open Hi Hat Grooves
Walk This Way by Aerosmith - A Rock/Hip Hop Classic with Open Hi Hats
Prince Buster - Madness - A Shuffle Groove Played Live with Added Extras
Elbow - The Bones of You - 6/8 Grooves with 16th notes
4 Topics
Pearl Jam - Alive - Changes of time signature with 16th note bass drums
Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good - RnB Grooves with Grace Snare Drum Notes
Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song - Rock in 6/4 Time
Pharrell - Happy - Quarter Note Groove with 8th kicks and an open Hi Hat
5 Topics
Rudiment Ideas Around the Drums - Singles Doubles & Paradiddles Coordination
Kate Bush - Lily - 16th Note Groove with Open Hi Hats
Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up - Heavy Funk Grooves with Displaced Snares
The Strokes - What Ever Happened? Groove - Quarter Note Groove with 16th Bass
7/8 Grooves - Rock Grooves with an 8th Note cut off
5 Topics
32nd Note Combinations on the Snare Drum/Kit
Left Foot Clave Coordination Exercises with Snare Drum Rudiments
Left Foot Clave Coordination Exercises with Orchestrated Rudiments
War is Over - John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Learn how to play 6/8 grooves and fills
Eminem - Cleanin' Out My Closet - Broken 16th Note Grooves With Cross Stick
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