No! You won’t be learning the drum beats provided in this free drum lesson in half the time you would all the other ones. If you want to understand what half-time grooves are all about, you have to give this free drum lesson a try. In the video, Jared Falk shows you how to play ten half-time drum beats. He also explains what half-time is and shows you how it relates to full-time. More »

In this free video drum lesson, DrumLessons.com instructor Jared Falk teaches you how to play five beginner tom-tom drum beats that you can use to get acquainted with this concept. Jared also goes over some tips on how to use these exercises to practice 4-way coordination. More »

Punk rock was initially developed in the mid 1970s. It’s a fast, hard-edged style of rock music, which albeit having a very simple instrumentation behind it, requires a lot of energy, power, and speed to be played authentically. In this free video drum lesson, Dave Atkinson introduces this style of drumming to you through five basic punk rock drum beats you’re sure to enjoy. Each punk rock beat is displayed at a slow speed, enabling you to see exactly what’s being played. Dave also takes the time to play the patterns with play-along loops, so you can check how they sound when used in context. More »

Linear beats, and fills for that matter are patterns whose strokes never overlap. This means that they lack unison figures. In this free drum lesson, Dave Atkinson teaches you how to play five beginner linear drum beats. He does so by showing you exactly how they should sound and how to best work on mastering them. More »

In this free drum lesson, Dave Atkinson teaches eight drum beats that incorporate double bass patterns. These double bass drum beats range from stock to more advanced and challenging patterns. You’ll learn how to play a blast beat, 16th note triplet and 32nd note double bass drum beats, and a pattern in 7/8 time signature. More »