How To Play Drums In 14 Days

How to Play Drums in 14 Days: Daily Drumset Lessons for Beginners - with free audio downloads or streaming - is presented in an easy-to-follow format to help you learn to play drums quickly! If you're looking for the best drumset book for beginners, look no further! Seasoned author and educator Ben Hans has written an easy-to-follow beginning drum book that's methodically designed to teach you all the essential rhythms, beats, and grooves you'll need to start playing your favorite songs! Teach yourself to play drums with this jam-packed book with tons of fundamental drum skills and exercises. You'll learn: Time Signatures & Rhythms Snare Drum Rudiments Essential Beats Tom Fills Signature Grooves Bass Drum Patterns Limb Independence Hi-Hat & Cymbal Techniques Plus! Stick Techniques Standard Drum Notation Jazz Ride Cymbal Patterns The Shuffle Feel Triplet Rhythms 12/8 Time And More! Free audio demonstration tracks for this drum instruction book included! This is the perfect first lesson for beginner drummers! Also great for teaching a beginner how to play the drums! All music examples are presented in easy-to-follow standard drum notation. So, as new drum concepts are introduced, you'll be able to quickly apply them to your drumset. This drum book is from the top-ranked series Play Guitar in 14 Days from Troy Nelson Music. About Ben Hans: Ben Hans is a percussionist, author, clinician, and music instructor based in Nashville, Tennessee. As an educator, Ben has taught private music lessons to students of all ages and skill levels for over three decades, including two decades as a college instructor. Ben actively performs live in multiple music genres and with many internationally known artists, and is also a freelance author, editor, proofreader, and session performer, with dozens of published works, including Workin' Drums: 50 Solos for Drumset, 40 Intermediate Snare Drum Solos, and Rudimental Drum Solos for the Marching Snare Drummer, among others. Ben is a Yamaha Performing Artist and also endorses Aquarian Drumheads, Vic Firth Drumsticks, Mike Balter Mallets, Impression Cymbals, and Tycoon Percussion. Ben is a member of ASCAP and John S. Pratt's International Association of Traditional Drummers. Note: To ensure that you receive a quality product and customer service, be sure to buy directly from Amazon, rather than from a marketplace seller. FREE access to audio demos - download or streaming - for each music example! Free shipping with Amazon Prime.

If you want to have more fun on the drums, improve your skills faster, and play along to real music, then you need to build a solid foundation. The Best Beginner Drum Book gives you a clear path for getting started on the drums and skipping the frustrating obstacles that most new drummers face: setting up your kit, holding the drumsticks, learning notation, creating catchy beats and fills, learning musical styles, and playing your favorite songs.

The ultimate guide to drumming styles by the co-author of the best-selling instructional book The Best Beginner Drum Book. Brandon Toews and Drumeo present... THE DRUMMER'S TOOLBOX! The Drummer's Toolbox presents drummers of all skill levels with the most comprehensive introduction to 100 different drumming styles from the past century. This ultimate guide includes more than 900 groove examples, as well as listening suggestions for 1000 recommended recordings. Throughout the book, drummers will also learn about the history of each drumming style, effective techniques for playing them, and how to break down different grooves limb-by-limb. The Drummer's Toolbox is for any drummer who's serious about expanding their musical vocabulary and becoming more versatile behind the drum-set. You will learn how to play: - Rock: Surf Rock, Progressive Rock, Punk Rock... - Jazz: 4/4 Swing, Up-Tempo Swing, Contemporary Jazz... - Blues: Texas Blues, Chicago Blues, Flat Tire Shuffle... - Country: Train Beat, Two-Step, Rockabilly... - Soul & Funk: Motown, Neo-Soul, New Orleans Funk... - Metal: Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Metalcore... - Electronic: Hip-Hop, Drum and Bass, Trap... - Afro-Cuban: Mambo, Nanigo, Songo... - Afro-Brazilian: Samba, Marcha, Bossa Nova... - Afro-Caribbean: Merengue, Reggae, Zouk... - And many more!

Become a different drummer Drumming is natural to all of us—after all, it mimics the regular beat of our hearts. But some of us want to go further and really lay down a big beat. And no wonder—whether you want to become the powerful backbone of a band or just learn how to play a hand drum for pleasure, drumming is a lot of fun. Oh, and it's scientifically proven to make you smarter. Bonus: healthier! Drums For Dummies gets you going on the road to becoming the drummer you want to be. Get started with the basics—what drums to buy, exercises that build your skills, and playing simple rhythms. Then move into more complex topics, explore drumming styles from around the world, and add other percussion instruments to your repertoire. Written in an easy-to-follow step-by-step style by respected instructor Jeff Strong, you'll go from banging out basic rhythms—with or without sticks—to acquiring versatility with different styles and types of drum. The book also provides online audio files to drum along with, as well as suggestions for solo approaches to wow your bandmates. Understand fundamental techniques Hone your technique with exercises Explore other percussion instruments Care for your drums The all-time drumming great Neal Peart of the band Rush once said that when he saw a good drummer, all he wanted to do was practice. Drums For Dummies is your best way to do just that—and start hitting your perfect groove. P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Drums For Dummies (9780471794110). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!

(Drum Book). If you're new to the drums, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This one-of-a-kind collection provides an accessible combo of drum notation and kit legends for the most popular songs drummers like to play from artists like the Beatles, Nirvana, U2 and Metallica. Songs include: American Idiot * Beast of Burden * Clocks * Free Fallin' * Give It Away * Hurts So Good * La Grange * My Generation * Peg * Shake It Off * Smells like Teen Spirit * Under Pressure * Walk This Way * Wipe Out * You Really Got Me * and more.

(Play Today Instructional Series). This ultimate self-teaching method for drums can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by teachers for private or group study. Offers instruction on: beats, songs and fills; all musical styles; playing tips and techniques; music notation; and more. Songs: Friends in Low Places * The House Is Rockin' * I Saw Her Standing There * Never Gonna Let You Go * What I Like About You.

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Teach yourself how to play drums with our easy rock drum lessons for beginners. ***Comes with online access to free drum videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.*** "This book is fantastic. It teaches you everything you need as a drummer. I’ve never had a drum lesson but after 2 months of practicing with this book and I’m ready to start a band!" - Pat Wallace, Hayward CA Progressive Beginner Rock Drums contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great rock drummer - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson drum tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of drum kits. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the drum kit is required to teach yourself to learn how to drum from this book. Teach yourself: • How to play a drum kit and develop your timing so you can drive a band • How to play essential rhythms used by the world’s greatest drummers • All the fundamental drum rudiments and drum techniques including hand, arm and finger technique for ultimate control of the drum sticks • Leg and foot technique for the kick drum and open hi-hats • Expressive techniques like accents, ghost notes, side stick, flams and paradiddles • How to create your own drum fills, beats and rock drum solos • How to read drum music on percussion clef • Drum tips and drum tricks that every drummer should know when learning drums • Shortcuts for how to learn drums fast by getting the most from drum practice sessions Contains everything you need to know to learn to play drums today. Features include: • Progressive step-by-step easy drumming lessons written by a professional drum teacher • Full color photos and diagrams • Easy-to-read percussion clef rock drum music • 100+ drum exercises, drum beats, drum grooves and drum fills in a variety of rock styles including hard rock drums, metal drums, blues rock drums, funk rock drums and hip-hop drums Beginner drum lessons have never been this easy for anyone who wants to learn how to play the drums, fast. LearnToPlayMusic.com's rock drum lessons for beginners are used by students and drum teachers worldwide to learn how to play drums. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted drum lesson books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a huge selection of music instruction books that cover many different instruments and styles in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality music education resources.