Learn to play rock drums with the virtual drummer as your teacher.

Basic rock coordination practice and a tutorial for beginners.

To learn to play drums, you need to start with basic exercises to coordinate the movements of your hands and feet.

Even the simplest Rock drum beats require coordination to be played correctly, with precision and drive. In this lesson about basic coordination in Rock drumming, you can find a series of exercises on the drum set, all the percussion classes in this tutorial feature various combinations of strokes on the classic rock pattern, one 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.

Study each exercise carefully before moving on to the next one, in the end you can play them all together in a row, to do this you can use the virtual drums as a guide by pressing the CHAIN button.

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.

Learn to read the drum sheet music:    Drum set elements    Notes and Rests    Tie and Dot