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Practicing drum beats, drum fills, hand and foot technique, drum rudiments and drum solos are the biggest part of what we do on our practice time. However good you might be, your chops and musicality will take a back seat to the way your drum set sounds if it isn’t tuned properly. Therefore, it’s essential for you to practice your abilities to tune your drums if you ever want them to sound any good. In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk goes over the different steps he follows to tune the snare drum to his liking. He also shares some tips and tricks that will have you tuning snare drums like a pro. More »
The fifteen stroke roll is the next stepping stone on your way to become a master of the 40 drum rudiments. In this free drum lesson, Lionel Duperron, of the DrumLessons.com team of instructors, shares some valuable tips on how to play the fifteen stroke roll and teaches you how to use it within drum beats and drum fills. More »
In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk shares some insights into what’s required to get drumming endorsements and discusses what your mind set should be in regards to this subject. At the end of the video, Jared signs an actual endorsement deal with Paiste Cymbals. More »
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Drumsticks are to drummers what picks are to guitarists and bows to violinists, in that they are the tools used to get sound out of a given instrument or set of instruments. No matter the instrument, the tools you decide to use to play on it will affect the way it sounds. The tool’s shape, materials, density, and weight, condition the sound quality and volume. This has led drumstick companies to branch out and experiment with a large array of different drumstick designs. These sticks are usually called “specialty sticks”. In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk goes through three different types of specialty sticks produced by Pro-Mark Drumsticks and compares them to regular drumsticks. More »
With this free drum lesson, Lionel Duperron teaches you how to practice and play the thirteen stroke roll, a pattern from the drum roll family of drum rudiments. This lesson includes drum set applications for the thirteen stroke roll that you can use on your everyday playing, or as inspiration for coming up with your own thirteen stroke roll drum beats and drum fills. More »
In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk, from the DrumLessons.com team of instructors, takes you through five very cool sounding drum beats that include cross-sticking. These challenging drum beats are 16th note and 16th note triplet based, and feature lots of syncopation and broken hi-hat patterns. If you have patience and just keep working on them, with time, you’ll not only learn some slick drum beats but improve your cross-sticking technique tremendously. More »
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In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk teaches five beginner drum beats that incorporate cross-sticking, and goes through a bunch of very cool tips and tricks for playing the cross-stick accurately. Cross-sticking is a very popular method of changing the overall feel of a song. Although its mellower sound is used primarily to tone down sections of songs by subbing snare shots, cross-sticking can be used to raise the intensity level of a song as well, especially when included after sections striped down of snare shots. You’re gonna love what this small nuance will do for your drumming. More »
