In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the song “My Name Is Mud” by Primus featuring Tim Alexander on drums. Despite the complicated bass line, Tim plays a relatively simple groove throughout the song, but he chooses to punctuate...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the main parts from the song “Cocaine” by Eric Clapton featuring Jamie Oldaker on drums. It’s really the main groove that I want to focus on in this lesson. It consists of a smooth flow...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the main parts from the song “Zephyr Song” by Red Hot Chili Peppers featuring Chad Smith on drums. This song features a drum loop played throughout the song that Chad then plays over on the...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the main drum beat from the song “RX Queen” by Deftones featuring Abe Cunningham on drums. The drum beat features a two bar off beat snare and bass drum groove. To make things cooler though,...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the song “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting” by Elton John featuring Nigel Olsson on drums. The trick to this song is understanding that the hi-hat parts were overdubbed over the top...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the song “The Day We Caught The Train” by Ocean Colour Scene featuring Oscar Harrison on drums. Oscar is no slouch when it comes to musical and exciting drum parts, and this performance is a...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the song “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” by U2 featuring Larry Mullen Jr. on drums. This Christmas song features a shuffle rhythm on the floor tom whilst Larry plays around with offbeat...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the song “Dakota” by Stereophonics featuring Javier Weyler on drums. This song features some basic but very musical drumming with more of a structure to the drum parts than you might first...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the song “Last Christmas” by Wham featuring George Michael on drums. This classic Christmas song features electronic drums programmed by George Michael himself. The song consists of only a few...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the song “Radio Ga Ga” by Queen featuring Roger Taylor on drums. The song features two distinct sections, each with their own cool drum parts. Despite the drums being programmed on a Linn drum...
In this free beginner video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play drum beats that involve playing a swung triplet pattern with your right hand…commonly known as a Shuffle drum beat. You can download the free PDF drum sheet music below… ...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the song “Happier Than Ever” by Billie Eilish featuring Finneas O’Connell on drums. This is a great song for beginners despite it being in the a 12/8 time signature. Because of the slow...
In this free beginner video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play drum beats that involve playing the Hi-Hat with two hands…commonly known as a double handed Hi-Hat drum beat. You can download the free PDF drum sheet music below… ...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the song “White Room” by Cream featuring Ginger Baker on drums. This classic from Cream starts with a section in 5/4 before moving onto the rest of the song in 4/4. Like all of Gingers...
In this free beginner video drum lesson, I want to teach you 13 of THE most common and essential drum beats EVERY drummer should be able to play eventually. I teach you each of the drum beats in their simplest form, and then for fun also demonstrate two variations for...
In this free beginner video drum lesson, I want to show you just how much power the snare drum backbeat has in determining the feel and groove of a drum beat. I demonstrate 24 different examples where all I’m changing is where the snare drum back beat is placed....
In this free beginner video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play drum beats that involve the open hi-hat. It features drum beats with the opening and closing of the hi-hat in various places. You can download the free PDF drum sheet music below… ...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the song “Fear Of The Dark” by Iron Maiden featuring Nicko McBrain on drums. This is another powerful performance from Nicko McBrain featuring plenty of his trademark grooves and amazing bass...
In this free beginner video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play a type of drum beat that I’ve called the “Hi-Hat Drag”. It involves playing a group of three sixteenth notes with your right hand. You can download the free PDF drum sheet music...
In this free video drum lesson, I want to teach you how to play the song “Get It On” by T. Rex featuring the drumming of Bill Legend. This lesson features just a couple of main drum beats and a very simple drum fill. With just these few parts you can play...
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