Odd-time signatures have been part of heavy-metal drumming for quite some time now. It’s especially easy to find them in heavy-metal styles of music like progressive heavy-metal. The music of bands like Meshuggah, Opeth, Dream Theater and Tool are a great example of that. Due to its rather important role in heavy-metal drumming and music, Sean Lang wrote eight odd-time signature drum beats for this heavy-metal free drum lesson. The odd-time signature heavy-metal drum beats are in 7/4 and 5/4. More »
This free drum lesson was designed by Dave Atkinson to take your 5/4 drum fills to a whole new dimension. These are hard patterns that incorporate the hybrid drum rudiment herta and a mix of 32nd notes with 16th note triplets, and exposes you to the use of quintuplets – a very unusual note value. You’ll have a blast with this free drum lesson. Ready to dig in? More »
In this free drum lesson, Dave Atkinson teaches three brand new 5/4 odd-time signature drum fills. As expected from an intermediate lesson, the patterns you’ll find here are a little bit more demanding. You’ll learn how to play 5/4 hand-to-feet combinations, and how to incorporate ghost notes and the single and double paradiddles into 5/4 drum fills. More »
In this free drum lesson, Dave Atkinson teaches you how to play three 5/4 drum fills. These 5/4 drum fills are 8th note- and 16th note-based. They’re a great way of introducing you to 5/4 drum fills, and of instructing you on how to add the bass drum to your drum fills. These 5/4 drum fills are played at two different tempos. This will allow you to have an idea of how they sound when played at slow and fast tempos. More »
The intermediate lesson on 5/4 odd-time time signature drum beats showed you how to come up with 5/4 patterns in different styles of music. With the advanced 5/4 drum beats from this lesson, Dave Atkinson keeps expanding on this concept by introducing you to 5/4 linear drum beats, 5/4 shuffle and songo drum beats. This is a great way of learning how to apply 5/4 to a lot of different styles of music. More »
The 5/4 odd-time time signature drum beats you’ll find on DrumLessons.com are featured on the rock drumming section. This doesn’t mean that 5/4 can only be used with rock music. To show you exactly this, Dave Atkinson came up with jazz and double bass 5/4 drum beats for this lesson. He also takes this opportunity to show you a cool way of using drum rudiments for coming up with cool 5/4 drum beats. More »
This free drum lesson is the best place to start learning your first patterns in 5/4 odd-time signature. The three 5/4 drum beats taught by Dave “The Canuck” Atkinson in the video are quarter note and 8th note based. They are demoed at two different tempos so you can have an idea of how they sound when played at slow and fast tempos. More »
Welcome to the first of a series of free drum lessons on the odd-time signature 5/4. Here, your host Dave Atkinson explains the differences between 4/4 and 5/4, and teaches effective ways of counting and developing a solid feel with 5/4 odd-time signature. This free drum lesson is the foundation on which the other free drum lessons on 5/4 build upon. So if you’re taking a stab at 5/4 for the very first time, we HIGHLY encourage you to watch this video before making your way to the 5/4 drum beats and drum fills. We used caps here, so you know we mean business! More »
This is the last free drum lesson in the three-lesson series on 7/8 odd-time signature drum fills. The three advanced 7/8 drum fills Jared Falk teaches you how to play in this free drum lesson are 16th note triplet and 32nd note based. These drum fills are extremely musical and incorporate hand-to-feet combinations and cymbals. More »
This free drum lesson is the second installment in a three-lesson series on drum fills played in 7/8 odd-time signature. In this video, Jared Falk teaches three intermediate 7/8 drum fills and discusses how these drum fills – or any other pattern for that matter – should be practiced. These drum fills incorporate 32nd notes, hand-to-foot combinations, and some cool cymbal patterns. More »
