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 »
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 »
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 »
In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk teaches you how to play drum beats that incorporate ghost notes as 16th note triplets, and exercises where the ghost notes are played exactly one 16th note after and before accented shots. Jared also goes through some ways you can practice these drum beats for developing them accurately. These are challenging drum beats that will greatly improve your hand technique, feel, and ability to play dynamically. More »
Ghost notes are basically very soft strokes. Ghost notes add feel to whatever you play, being especially applicable to groove based music like funk, hip-hop, blues, fusion, and drum ‘n’ bass. Nonetheless, it’s common to listen to ghost notes in jazz, Latin, pop, and a lot of different styles of rock music. Therefore, learning how to play consistent and low sounding ghost notes is a must if you want to take your drumming to the next level, or even be a professional drummer. In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk teaches you three beginner drum beats that encompass ghost notes, and shares some tips that are sure to help you play ghost notes to your fullest potential in no time. More »
Using the opening and closing of the hi-hat throughout a whole song can be a bit overkill at times. You can think of these techniques as embellishments to the main groove or even as subtle drum fills. In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk teaches three advanced and cool sounding patterns, showing you exactly how they can be used as enhancements to the main grooves of songs. More »
The opening and closing of the hi-hat can be done with a lot of different subdivisions. As a way of showing you just that, Jared Falk came up with three two-handed 16th note hi-hat drum beats that include the opening and closing of the hi-hat, and that he’ll teach you how to perform with this free drum lesson. These drum beats contain 8th and 16th note, as well as syncopated hi-hat openings. This is a fun and challenging collection of drum beats. Give this free drum lesson a try. You’ll have a ton of fun with it. More »
