Free Drum Licks, Beats, Grooves & Fills

Add some spice and excitement to your drumming with these cool drum beats, techniques and ideas...

Famous Beats & Fills

Learn some of the greatest drum beats and fills ever played, performed by drumming legends.

• 100 Mile High City Drum Beat (Ocean Colour Scene)

• 6:00 Drum Beat (Dream Theater)

• Aja Drum Solo (Steve Gadd)

• All The Small Things Drum Fills (Blink 182)

• Assassin Drum Fill (Muse)

• Blinded In Chains Drum Fill (Avenged Sevenfold)

• Change (In The House Of Flies) Drum Beat (Deftones)

• Cherub Rock Intro & Drum Beat (Smashing Pumpkins)

• Chop Suey Drum Beat (System Of A Down)

• Don't Ask Me Drum Fill (Vinnie Colaiuta & Nik Kershaw)

• Elephant Drum Beat (Them Crooked Vultures)

• Green Day Various Drum Beats & Drum Fills (Tre Cool)

• Master Of Puppets Drum Beat (Metalica)

• Nirvana Various Drum Beats & Drum Fills (Dave Grohl)

• Stairway to Heaven Drum Beat & Drum Fill (Led Zeppelin)

• The Dark Eternal Night Drum Fill/Solo (Dream Theater)

• Underdog Drum Beat (Kasabian)

Full Drum Charts

You can now download the following fully transcribed drum charts absolutely free...

• Heartbeat Song Drum Chart (The Futureheads: Dave Hyde)

• I Don't Care Drum Chart (Fall Out Boy: Andy Hurley)

• Life In Technicolour II Drum Chart (Coldplay: Will Champion)

• One Day Like This Drum Chart (Elbow: Richard Jupp)

• Read My Mind Drum Chart (The Killers: Ronnie Vannucci)

Licks And Fill Ideas

Try out these cool and fun ideas to give your drumming a little magic.

• Gavin Harrison Drum Solo Lick (Letterman Show) - 1:44

• Gavin Harrison Drum Solo Lick (Letterman Show) - 2:00

• The "Fa-De-La-Dump"

• The "Bonham Triplets"

• Single Stroke Accents With Bass Drum

• The Quad

• The Weckl 9

• The Blush-Da
  

• The Herta (Cobham Rudiment)

• Ray Luzier Double Bass Drum Fill

Advanced Groove Ideas

Fancy a challenge? Try out these head busting drum beat ideas

• 3 Over 4 Polyrhythm

• Hi-Hat Polyrhythm

Linear & Gospel Style Drumming

Learn how to play in this really cool and funky style of drumming. You'll never look at drum beat construction in the same way after.

• Part 1: Basic Linear Grooves

• Part 2: Syncopated Eighth And Sixteenth Note

• Gospel Style Drum Fills

• Gospel Style Drum Licks Part 2

• Gospel Linear Lick

• Hand And Foot Combinations

• Gavin Harrison Style Triplet Lick

Double Bass Drum

Get started and build a solid foundation for your double bass drumming with these lessons on the basics and fundamentals.

• Part 1: Various Subdivisions

• Part 2: Syncopated Sixteenth Notes

Ghost Notes

Ever wondered how to fill out a groove and play those really cool sounding funk beats? Well, find out how by playing Ghost Notes.

• Lesson 1: How To Play Ghost Notes

• Lesson 2: Intermediate Ghosted Drum Beats

More Free Drum Lessons

Check out the many other free drum lessons available (including Video Drum Lessons)...

• FREE DRUM LESSONS - HOME PAGE

• Video - Various Drum Lessons

• Video - Beginner Drum Lessons

• Non-Video - Various Drum Lessons

• Non-Video - Beginner/Intermediate Drum Lessons

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