24-How to Play the Drums: Drum Kit Exercise

This lesson is part of the series: Drumming Lessons: Beginner-Intermediate, Drumming Lessons: Basics through Advanced

This lesson will get you to pay your first rudimental snare drum solo, called Fire and Flams. During the solo, you'll use some dotted rhythms and some flam rudiments (flam accents, flam drags and flam paradiddles, which can be learned at www.mindbites.com/lesson/1645). In the solo, you'll also be encouraged to pay particularly close attention to your dynamics.

Also in this lesson, you'll experiment with an exercise that calls for 6/8 time. 6/8 time is very similar to 12/8 time, which we have already worked with. In each bar, there will be 2 beats (versus 4 in 12/8 time). In addition to an exercise that calls for 6/8 time, Jim will also review tips for keeping count in 6/8 time.

This lesson is excerpted from a broader course available from www.begindrumming.com. The Begin Drumming course is a 100% comprehensive drumming course which takes you from absolute beginner to expert soloist without any gimmicky short cuts! Through a combination of video and written lessons, the course will teach you proper technique as well as how to read drum music.

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• 24.pdf
• firenflams.mp3
• pg30ex2.mp3

Let me introduce myself. My name is Jim McCarthy. I'm a drum clinician and teacher and have specialized in pure technique for many years. I consider myself still a student as well, because I have a passion for constantly learning. I learn every day when I watch other drummers, and I analyze what works and what doesn’t. Performing, Educating and Learning have been my life and my living for well over 20 years.

I've had a tremendously broad background in drumming. I've played in rock bands, orchestras, marching bands - everything from high-brow contemporary music to Latin American stuff.

I spent six years at university studying percussion performance full time, and I ended up with a...

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