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Unstable Mind Drumless Playalong

Unstable Mind Drumless Playalong Jam along with a fun synth track minus drums This Is The Unstable Mind Drumless Playalong Welcome to the Unstable Mind Drumless Playalong. This is a fun synth based backing track at 110bpm which allows you to practice your drum grooves along with and improve your musicianship. It requires a funky, rock beat essentially but you are free to make it your own, add fills and just generally have fun jamming along with music minus drums. Watch the video below to hear a snippet and then scroll down to get the track and start jamming along.…

King James Drum Notation – Anderson .Paak

King James Drum Notation Anderson .Paak Learn how to play King James by Anderson .Paak on the drums This Is The King James Drum Notation Welcome to the King James drum notation. King James is a song from the 2019 Anderson .Paak album titled 'Ventura'. It's a typically cool, laid back groove which is essentially a funk beat with several variations throughout. There's nothing too difficult here so once you get the main rhythms down it probably won't take long to get up to the speed of the track. However, you need to make sure the timing is solid and…

Trading Fours – How to Trade Fours on the Drums

Trading Fours Learn how to trade fours in a drum solo scenario This Is The Trading Fours Lesson Welcome to the trading fours online drum lesson. This teaches you the concept of trading fours and shows you how it works. This format is used for drum solos and allows us to interact with other musicians in a really exciting way. Traditionally you will find jazz musicians trading fours but as you'll see in this lesson, we can apply this in any genre. In this lesson you will learn how to trade fours and you will see that drummers of any…

Billy Drum Notation – James Blunt

Billy Drum Notation Get the drum notation for a James Blunt calssic song This Is The Billy Drum Notation James Blunt This is the Billy drum notation. Billy is a song by James Blunt which featured on his 2004 debut album 'Back to bedlam' which brought singles such as 'You're beautiful' and 'High'. This album brought Blunt into the spotlight and launched his successful career. This offers the full drum sheet music for the track. Although not a classic track, this is a great example of a drum part for a singer/songwriter track, which is a style of drumming that…

Really EASY Linear Drum Fill

Really EASY Linear Drum Fill Learn how to play a simple linear drum fill quickly This Is The Really EASY Linear Drum Fill Welcome to the Really EASY Linear Drum Fill online drum lesson. It's totally free and it will take just five minutes to understand the fill. You can print of the sheet music too to make the learning process easy. This is called a linear fill but most fills are linear. Linear drumming just means playing one thing at a time, so you never layer two voices up. So if you think of the most basic drum fills…

Easy But Impressive Sounding Drum Fill

Easy But Impressive Sounding Drum Fill Learn how to play an awesome drum fill that sounds really hard This Is The Easy But Impressive Sounding Drum Fill Lesson Welcome to the easy but impressive sounding drum fill free drum lesson. We all love things that are easy but sound complicated. That's not being lazy, it's just great to get those quick wins on the drums and feel good about playing. Let's face it, most of our drum progress takes ages and has more frustration than self gratifying moments so let's embrace this one. BUT, that doesn't mean you'll get this sounding…

Swung 16ths Funk Beats

Swung 16th Funk Beats Learn how to play funk drums with the swung 16th note funky grooves online drum lesson. This Is The Swung 16th Funk Beats Drum Lesson Welcome to the swung 16th funk beats drum lesson. Having that slightly swung 16th note feel is a crucial rhythm type to master for funk drumming. It instantly gives a straight groove a funky make-over and creates a feel that is impossible for people not to dance along with. That is the power of the swung 16th funk beats. This lesson is taken from the much larger beginner funk course so…

Easy But Impressive Sounding Linear Beats

Impressive Sounding Linear Beats Learn how to play three awesome linear grooves This Is The Impressive Sounding Linear Beats Drum Lesson Welcome to the impressive sounding linear beats drum lesson. This is a totally free drum lesson that gives you the video and the sheet music. Linear beats are really fun and give us an interesting approach that forces us to play rhythms that sound different to the usual bog standard grooves that we usually play. Here we are going to learn three linear drum beats that sound really hard but are actually easy to learn. They will take effort, they…

One Handed 16th Note Funk Grooves

One Handed 16th Note Funk Grooves Learn how to play one handed 16th note funk grooves. This Is The One Handed 16th Note Funk Grooves Lesson Welcome to the one handed 16th note funk grooves lesson. Playing 16th note hi-hats grooves in this funky context provides a really cool, laid back vibe. There is a certain tempo range that these work in, not least because you physically can't go above a particular speed, which is different for everyone, when playing with one hand. But the vibe they create is chilled and really effective for the right song. You can find…

Framing Hanley Drum Notation

Framing Hanley Drum Notation Learn how to play Stupid Girl by Framing Hanley This Is The Framing Hanley Drum Notation Welcome to the Framing Hanley drum notation for their single 'You stupid girl'. This is taken from the A Promise to Burn album in 2010 which was their second LP offering. You Stupid Girl was the lead single from that album and here we find the full drum sheet music for the drum part as played by Chris Vest. The band formed in 2005 in Nashville, Tennessee and the first album in 2007 showcased their modern rock style. You Stupid…