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A structured program of exercises designed to improve your drum kit playing. This is a program of bite sized audio drum kit lessons. These lessons are designed to evaluate and elevate you’re playing skills. I built the programs for me but soon realised how useful they are. I wanted to share them so here they are. I have kept the lessons short. They can be fitted in even if you have only 15 minutes to practice. Each lesson builds on the one before. I have started by going back to basics then ...
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Program 01 Lesson 10 Quarter notes, limb pairs on the count, right foot right hand exercise 2 We will be playing at 60, 70 and 80 beats per minute. We will be playing in 4/4, time signature. We will be practicing over 16 bars. In this exercise the right foot is the lead or dominant limb. We will be playing the bass drum with our right foot and the …
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Program 01 Lesson 09 Quarter notes, limb pairs on the count, right foot right hand exercise 1 We will be playing at 60, 70 and 80 beats per minute. We will be playing in 4/4, time signature. We will be practicing over 16 bars. In this exercise the right foot is the lead or dominant limb. We will be playing the bass drum with our right foot and the …
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Program 01 Lesson 08 Quarter notes, individual limbs on the count, left foot exercise 2 We will be playing at 60, 70 and 80 beats per minute. We will be playing in 4/4, time signature. We will be practicing over 16 bars. In this exercise the left foot is the lead or dominant limb. We will be playing the hi-hat with our left foot. We will be playing…
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Program 01 Lesson 07 Quarter notes, individual limbs on the count, left foot exercise 1 We will be playing at 60, 70 and 80 beats per minute. We will be playing in 4/4, time signature. We will be practicing over 16 bars. In this exercise the left foot is the lead or dominant limb. We will be playing the hi-hat with our left foot. We will be playing…
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Program 01 Lesson 06 Quarter notes, individual limbs on the count, left hand exercise 2 We will be playing at 60, 70 and 80 beats per minute. We will be playing in 4/4, time signature. We will be practicing over 16 bars. In this exercise the left hand is the lead or dominant limb. We will be playing the snare drum with our left hand. We will be pla…
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Program 01 Lesson 05 Quarter notes, individual limbs on the count, left hand exercise 1 We will be playing at 60, 70 and 80 beats per minute. We will be playing in 4/4, time signature. We will be practicing over 16 bars. In this exercise the left hand is the lead or dominant limb. We will be playing the snare drum with our left hand. We will be pla…
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Program 01 Lesson 04 Quarter notes, individual limbs on the count, right hand exercise 2 We will be playing at 60, 70 and 80 beats per minute. We will be playing in 4/4, time signature. We will be practicing over 16 bars. In this exercise the right hand is the lead or dominant limb. We will be playing the ride cymbal with our right hand. We will be…
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Program 01 Lesson 03 Quarter notes, individual limbs on the count, right hand exercise 1 We will be playing at 60, 70 and 80 beats per minute. We will be playing in 4/4, time signature. We will be practicing over 16 bars. In this exercise the right hand is the lead or dominant limb. We will be playing the ride cymbal with our right hand. We will be…
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Program 01 Lesson 02 Quarter notes, individual limbs on the count, right foot exercise 2 We will be playing at 60, 70 and 80 beats per minute. We will be playing in 4/4, time signature. We will be practicing over 16 bars. In this exercise the right foot is the lead or dominant limb. We will be playing the bass drum with our right foot. We will be p…
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Program 01 Lesson 01 Quarter notes, individual limbs on the count, right foot exercise 1 We will be playing at 60, 70 and 80 beats per minute. We will be playing in 4/4, time signature. We will be practicing over 16 bars. In this exercise the right foot is the lead or dominant limb. We will be playing the bass drum with our right foot. We will be p…
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Program 01 / introducing quarter notes, counting explained Welcome to Program 1 Counting explained In this section I will explain how and why I count through the exercises. In program 1 we are focusing on playing only quarter notes. We are counting in 4/4-time signature. The first 4 tells us how many beats there are in a bar and this is called the …
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Hello and welcome to Learn to Play the Drums. This is a program of bite sized audio drum kit lessons. These lessons are designed to evaluate and elevate you’re playing skills. No matter how long you have played for, we all have room for improvement. We all have elements of our playing that we embrace and that we avoid. I have been playing for decad…
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