Here are some drum lesson products to help you advance quickly in your training! These method books were carefully developed over years and field tested with students in a live drum lesson setting.
(42 pgs., © 2021) Here’s your chance to jump-start your skills as a drummer! This book gives you a solid foundation of knowledge and playing abilities on the drums. It takes you through all the vital basics of training AND gives you some experience speaking the language of drumming, on the drumset and practice pad.
Written by professional drum instructor Adam Randall, this book represents nearly twenty years of field experience with students. It is the ideal start-up book for new drummers. $12.98 USD Buy now on Amazon
- INCLUDES:
- Equipment terminology, purchasing and setup guidelines (with pictures)
- Basic technique for hands and feet (with initiation exercises for each)
- Drum rudiment exercises
- Basic rhythm-notation reading instructions
- Rhythm exercises
- Groove exercises
- Drum fill exercises (alone and combined with a groove)
There is only a page or two of each type of exercise, so progress through this book is easy and encouraging. It’s a good size dose of training to help a student learn to have some fun with the drumset and be ready for more! (Also designed to be a useful book for drum instructors to have in their arsenal.)
(50 pgs., © 2021) This is the first book in the Level 2 materials because it is foundational to your drumming skills. It trains you on technique perfection, building drumming speed, and all five families of rudiments. You’ll end up with a good base of knowledge about physical skills used on the drumset, and a boost in all of them – plus the tools to continue advancing your abilities for the rest of your drumming life!
Prerequisite: ‘PLAY DRUMS NOW 1.0: Drumset Skill Basics’
Expected time to master: 1-2 months, with regular practice
$12.98 USD Buy now on Amazon
(56 pgs., © 2021) A complete tour of everything ‘rhythmic’, this book teaches reading music, the science of rhythm notation, the different rhythmic ‘feels’ in music, how a metronome works and how to use it, and provides a couple dozen pages of rhythms to use for honing your skills and learn to play rhythms faster and more accurately! This book is a vital cornerstone in your drumming abilities.
Prerequisite: ‘PLAY DRUMS NOW 1.0: Drumset Skill Basics’
Expected time to master: 1-2 months, with regular practice
$12.98 USD Buy now on Amazon
(58 pgs., © 2021) Here is a complete and total foundation for your groove abilities as a drummer! Covers all four essential ‘feels’ of music, as well as various styles of playing within each feel (basic grooves, coordination-challenges, latin grooves, swing). Also progresses from short patterns through longer patterns, for developing your groove versatility rapidly.
Prerequisite: ‘PLAY DRUMS NOW 1.0: Drumset Skill Basics’
Expected time to master: 1-2 months, with regular practice
$12.98 USD Buy now on Amazon
(44 pgs., © 2021) This is a complete training for combining grooves and fills! Starting with some agility exercises and progressing through combinations of four sizes of fills for each groove, you will be a master of decorating your grooves and you’ll have a wide vocabulary of fills. Also includes some fill theory so you’ll know how to execute them smoothly, as well as how to easily come up with awesome new fills.
Prerequisite: ‘PLAY DRUMS NOW 1.0: Drumset Skill Basics’
Expected time to master: 1-2 months, with regular practice
$12.98 USD Buy now on Amazon
(50 pgs., © 2021) This book offers a core understanding of how drummers interact with music, and teaches you how to create drum parts for songs. The training provides about a dozen different drum parts with grooves and fills, and instructions for using each part with various songs. By the end of this book you’ll be able to play along with a wide variety of modern music! This book integrates your skills developed in previous books, to complete your LEVEL 2 training.
Prerequisite: ‘PLAY DRUMS NOW 1.0: Drumset Skill Basics’
Expected time to master: 1-2 months, with regular practice
$12.98 USD Buy now on Amazon
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