In this free drum lesson, Lionel Duperron teaches you how to play the eleven stroke roll, a pattern from the drum roll family of drum rudiments. Give this lesson a try if you’re interested on learning how to play the eleven stroke roll. Don’t worry if you don’t like practicing drum rudiments on a practice pad. This free drum lesson features drum beats and drum fills incorporating the eleven stroke roll. This way, you can practice the eleven stroke roll with your whole drum set. More »

In this video, Jared Falk and Jenn Krahn take you through the DrumLessons.com first ever drum set giveaway. They start by going over the rules for the contest before giving away two six-piece Casey Drums drum sets through a random drawing. More »

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This free drum lesson is on one of the drum rudiments from the drum roll family, the ten stroke roll. In the video, Lionel Duperron teaches you how to play and how to practice the ten stroke roll effectively, so you can make the best out of your practice time. The 40 drum rudiments aren’t meant to be played on a practice pad only, so you’ll learn how to apply the ten stroke roll to the drum set through a couple of drum beats and drum fills as well. More »

Independence is the holy grail of drumming. It’s what enables a drummer to play anything he wants to on a given moment. Therefore, working on improving your independence will hail great results in regards to your ability to be more musical and to play by feel with ease. In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk takes you through a bass drum independence etude designed to free your bass drum leg from Quarter note, 8th note, 16th note, and 32nd note based hand patterns. If you’re having any issues with freeing up your bass drum leg from your hi-hat hand, this free drum lesson will do wonders for you. More »

In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk teaches three 16th note linear drum fills geared towards the intermediate drummer. These drum fills introduce two new themes. The first one is the use of cymbals instead of tom/snare shots. This is a great way of incorporating new textures into your tom/snare based linear drum fills. The second theme comes in the form of spreading single stroke rolls between one hand and the bass drum foot, which is great for further developing your 4-way coordination. More »

Linear patterns – whether in drum beat or drum fill format – are patterns that are played without overlapping strokes. You won’t find any unison figure in this type of pattern. In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk teaches three linear drum fills – known as hand-to-feet combinations – that you can use to further enrich your drum fill library and get used to playing this type of idea around the drum set. During the video, Jared goes into some detail about how to use these three drum fills for coming up with linear patterns of your own as well. More »

Throughout the beginner and intermediate free drum lessons on ghost notes, you were introduced to the essential techniques and basic independence required to play great sounding ghost notes. With this free drum lesson, Jared Falk, from the DrumLessons.com team of instructors, takes things up a notch by showing you some creative approaches for incorporating ghost notes into single paradiddle, 8th note and 16th note triplet based drum beats. More »