Learn how to play rock drums - Coordination

Introduction to the video drum lesson: Basic Rock 1

The drum sheet of this lesson about coordination in Rock drumming contains a series of basic exercises on the drum set.

This series of lessons deals with various combinations of strokes on the classic rock pattern, a 4/4 measure with steady quadruplets played by the right hand on the ride cymbal, and second and fourth fourths played by the hi-hat.
The drum sheet of these lessons split the staff in two: the upper one shows the steady pattern of hi-hat and ride cymbal, and the lower one shows a combination of snare and bass drum strokes. The first exercise shows only the basic rock pattern, the following ones add various combinations of single strokes to the left hand eights.

Drum sheet music Basic Rock 1 File ZIP

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