Welcome to Drums for the Absolute Beginner. If you have always wanted to play the drum, this is a great place to start. The course will take you from holding the drumsticks and reasding rhythms to playing the rudiments, beats and fills that are the basis of every drummer's technique to learning the various instruments in the drumset.

Course Content:

Basic Techniques

• The Single-stroke Roll
• The Double-stroke Roll
• The paradiddle
• Accent patterns
• The Three-stroke Roll
• The Five-stroke Roll
• The Six-stroke Roll
• Sixteen Notes
• Combination Excercise

Getting Started on the Drumset

• Basic Drumset Notation
• Playing the Bass Drum
• Playing the Hi-hat
• Adding Bass Drum to the Hi-hat
• Quaver notes on the Hi-hat
• Bass Drum Variation
• Beats in a longer form
• Getting around the Drumset
• Drum fills
• Crashing the Ride Cymbal
• Playing the Ride Cymbal
• Stepped Hi-hat
• Open & Closed Hi-hat