Improve your drumming skills by learning from top drummers.
Online drum lessons for experienced drummers who already know music theory and basic percussion techniques.
Virtual drums aren't just drum games, they can help you learn about percussion instruments, rhythm and music theory, improving your knowledge and skills.
In this section of the method for drums you'll find some exercises to improve the techniques you have learnt in the
basic drum lessons,
a deeper knowledge about different rhythms, and some studies about style and technique of great drummers, from past and present times.
Reading the drum sheet music and the transcriptions in some of the following video drum lessons requires a good knowledge
of musical writing; even experienced drummers can find something new to learn in these pages.
Method Advanced drum lessons, just like the basic lessons, consist of a short text introduction and of a drum sheet in pdf format
that you can download and print, so you can play the drums or your percussion instrument following the sheet music.
The topics of the advanced video drum lessons and related exercises that you can find in the
drum sheet music are:
Advanced drum beats, Snare drum studies and Drum solo transcriptions, with transcriptions of songs and drum solos performed by
Michael Bland, Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Dave Weckl, Tony Williams.
All video drum lessons are performed in real time by the virtual drummer.
The Virtual Drum Machine
can help you learn music and compose rhythm tracks for your songs.
Learn to read drum sheet music
Drum set elements
The graphic symbols of drum set elements in sheet music.
Notes and Rests
The value of notes and rests in musical notation.
Ties and Dots
Understanding and using ties and dots in drum scores.