Welcome to our Drum Techniques and Exercises hub — the perfect place to build your skills, control, and confidence behind the kit.
Whether you’re a beginner learning the fundamentals, an intermediate drummer refining your technique, or an advanced player exploring complex concepts, you’ll find everything you need here.
These lessons cover hand and foot control, rudiments, reading music, drum theory, and creative practice ideas designed to make learning fun and effective. By working through these exercises, you’ll improve speed, precision, and musicality, helping you become a more versatile and confident drummer.
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Beginner Drum Pack
From total beginner to playing drums.
Video Lessons & Sheets.
eBooks Drum Pack
Learn 100s of famous beats, fills & solos.
Three Massive eBooks.
Learn 10 beginner drum beats.
Learn 5 beginner drum fills.
Learn to read drum music.
How to learn songs.
Sneaky Linear Triplet Groove | Free Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
Learn how to play a sneaky linear triplet groove drum beat. Free Video Drum Lesson & PDF Drum Sheet Music.
“Play Double Bass Drum With One Foot” | Free Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
Learn how to play double bass drum with one foot. Free Video Drum Lesson & PDF Drum Sheet Music.
Shuffle Drum Beats | Free Beginner Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
How to play shuffle drum beats that involve playing a swung triplet pattern with your right hand. Free drum lesson and drum sheet music.
“Double Handed Hi-Hats” Free Beginner Video Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
I show you how to play beats that involve playing the Hi-Hat with two hands…known as double handed hi-hat. Free drum lesson and sheet music.
13 Essential & Common Drum Beats | Free Beginner Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
I want to teach you 13 of the most common drum beats EVERY drummer should know. Free drum lessons and sheet music.
Power Of The Backbeat | Free Beginner Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
I show you just how much power the snare drum backbeat has in determining the feel and groove of a drum beat. Free drum lesson & sheet music.
Open Hi-Hats | Free Beginner Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
How to play drum beats that involve open hi-hats. Drum beats with opening and closing in various places. Free drum lesson and sheet music.
Hi-Hat Drag | Free Beginner Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
How to play a type of drum beat that I’ve called the “Hi-Hat Drag”. Playing a group of three sixteenths with your right hand – Free drum lesson.
Hi-Hat Push | Free Beginner Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
How to play a type of drum beat that I’ve called the “Hi-Hat Push”. Playing a group of three sixteenths with your right hand – Free drum lesson.
Off Beat Hi-Hat | Free Beginner Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
How to play a type of drum beat that I’ve called the “Off Beat Hi-Hat”. It involves playing the upbeats with your right hand – Free drum lesson.
Bass Drum Drag | Free Beginner Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
How to play a type of drum beat that I’ve called the “Bass Drum Drag”. Playing the bass drum just after the snare back beats – Free drum lesson.
Bass Drum Push | Free Beginner Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
How to play a type of drum beat that I’ve called the “Bass Drum Push”. It involves playing a bass drum note just before the snare drum backbeat.
Guess The Song Based On The Drums | Fun Drum Challenge
Guess The Song Based On The Drums – Fun Drum Challenge
10 Famous & Popular Drum Beats | Free Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
10 Famous & Popular Drum Beats: Learn how to play these classic grooves – Free video drum lesson and sheet music.
5 Easy Drum Fills For Beginners | Free Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
Five easy drum fills for beginners: Learn these beginner friendly drum fills with free sheet music – Free video drum lesson and sheet music.
Top 10 Easy Drum Beats For Beginners | Free Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
Top 10 easy drum beats for beginners: Learn these beginner friendly grooves with free sheet music – Free video drum lesson and sheet music.
Easy Songs To Play On Drums | Top 40 For Beginners
The top 40 easy songs to play on drums. Learn these beginner songs plus 100s more by becoming an online member at DrumsTheWord.com.
Learn How To Read Drum Music | Free 3 Video Drum Course
Easily learn how to read drum music notation with this free three video drum course – Free video drum lesson course.
How To Learn Songs On Drums | Free 40 Minute Video Course
Find out how to easily learn songs on drums with this free video drum lesson course – Free video drum lesson and PDF help sheet.
Dave Grohl (Signature Lick) FILL | Free Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
Learn how to play a classic signature Dave Grohl drum fill. Full drum lesson and sheet music.
Travis Barker (Signature Lick) FILL | Free Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
Learn how to play a classic signature Travis Barker drum fill. Free video drum lesson and sheet music.
Dave Grohl (Signature Lick) FILL | Free Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
Learn how to play a classic signature Dave Grohl drum fill. Free video drum lesson and sheet music.
Dave Grohl (Signature Lick) SOLO | Free Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
Learn how to play a classic signature Dave Grohl drum lick. Free video drum lesson and sheet music.
“Benny Greb” Drum Lick | Free Video Drum Lesson & Sheet Music
Learn how to play a famous Benny Greb linear drum lick with this free video drum lesson and pdf drum notation.
Rob’s Drum Licks #6 | RRLRR Drum Beat Lick – Free Drum Lesson
A drum beat idea that I’ve heard called the the “King Kong” beat. The idea is that you play a couple of doubles with the right hand (RRLRR)
Rob’s Drum Licks #5 | Five Note Sticking & Bass Drum Linear Fill – Free Drum Lesson
This video drum lesson is based on the popular five note sticking (RLRLL), with a single bass drum foot – Free drum lesson.
Rob’s Drum Licks #1 | “3132” Fun Linear Pattern – Free Drum Lesson
I explore a Linear style drum fill that another drummer taught on YouTube. He called it the “3132” pattern and is best played as triplets.
Rob’s Drum Licks #4 | Six Stroke Roll Triplet Hand/Foot Lick – Free Drum Lesson
This video drum lesson is based on the six stroke roll, and involves substituting the RR of the RLLRRL with two bass drum notes – Free drum lesson.
Rob’s Drum Licks #3 | Vinnie Colaiuta Triplet Drum Fill Lick – Free Drum Lesson
I’ve taken a drum lick that I first heard Vinnie Colaiuta play first. It involves substituting the right hand within a RLL pattern with the bass drum foot.
Rob’s Drum Licks #2 | Chad Smith Flam Drum Fill – Free Drum Lesson
In this video, I explore a drum fill idea I got from Chad Smith. It’s simply four notes long and starts with a flam – Free drum lesson & sheet music.
Timshel (My Band) | Live @ The Hobbit Pub, England (05/04/13)
A live performance of me (Rob from DrumsTheWord.com) performing with my old band Timshel.
Funny Drummer Jokes
As part of a competition to win a free PDF drum chart I asked people to tell me their funniest drummer jokes.
Todd Sucherman PDF Drum Practice Notes | (Methods & Mechanics Drum DVD I & II)
Learn a ton of licks and practice ideas from Todd Sucherman’s drum DVD. Get my own private note for free.
Beginner Drum Fills | Learn How To Play Drum Fills – Free Drum Lesson
Learn how to play drum with this free beginner drum fills lessons. Free Video Drum Lesson & PDF Drum Chart Notation.
How to Hold Your Drum Sticks | Traditional & Matched Stick Grip Technique – Free Drum Lesson
In this free beginner drum lesson I’m going to teach you how to hold your drum sticks using the matched grip…
How to Set Up a Drum Kit | Beginner Free Drum Lesson
In this free video drum lesson I show you how I set up my drum kit. Everything you need to know when setting up a drum set, electric or acoustic.
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Full Song Video Drum Lessons
Over 700+ full song video drum lessons teaching 100s of famous and popular songs from start to finish.
PDF Drum Charts
All full song video drum lessons come with a fully transcribed PDF drum chart, also detailing sticking's, tempo and dynamics. Every. Single. Note.
Bonus Videos, Charts & eBooks
Three massive ebooks, 100s more mini video drum lessons and many transcriptions, teaching you a ton more famous drum beats, fills and solos.
Online Access
Easily access video lessons and PDF drum charts from any computer, tablet or smart phone.
Expert Tuition
With over 20 years experience teaching drums online and one-to-one; Rob will be able to help you play your favourite songs in no time. Let Rob take you through each song both slowly and up to speed.
MASSIVE Content
In total, you gain access to over 1000+ hours of video drum lessons, including 1000s of PDF drum charts, mini drum lessons, ebooks and bonus material.
And 700+ MORE full song video drum lessons.
Each lesson teaches you the song in full and includes the fully transcribed sheet music...
100 Mile High City (Ocean Colour Scene), 20th Century Boy (T.Rex), 21 Guns (Green Day), 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon), 6 Underground (Sneaker Pimps), 74-75 (The Connells), Ace Of Spades (Motorhead), Adams Song (Blink 182), A Day In The Life (The Beatles), Addicted To Love (Robert Plant), Aeroplane (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Africa (Toto), Alive And Kicking (Simple Minds), All Day And All Of The Night (The Kinks), A Message To You, Rudy (The Specials), And She Was (Talking Heads), Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers), All Apologies (Nirvana), All I Want For Christmas (Mariah Carey), All My Life (The Foo Fighters), All Night Long (Rainbow), All Right Now (Free), All These Things That I've Done (The Killers), All The Small Things (Blink 182), All The Young Dudes (Mott The Hoople), All You Ever Wanted (Rag'n'Bone Man), Alternative Ulster (Stiff Little Fingers), Always (Blink 182), Always (Bon Jovi), Always On My Mind (Elvis Presley), American Idiot (Green Day), Anarchy In The UK (Sex Pistols), Angel Of Harlem (U2), Angie (The Rolling Stones), Animal (Def Leppard), Another One Bites The Dust (Queen), Anna Molly (Incubus), Aneurysm (Nirvana), Apocalypse Please (Muse), Are You Gonna Be My Girl (Jet), Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz), Around The World (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie), Assassin (Muse), Atomic (Blondie), Awake (Godsmack), Back In Black (AC/DC), Back In Time (Huey Lewis & The News), Back In The U.S.S.R. (The Beatles), Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival), Ballroom Blitz (The Sweet), Banquet (Bloc Party), Basket Case (Green Day), Beautiful Ones (Suede), Beautiful Things (Benson Boone), Because The Night (Patti Smith), Beds Are Burning (Midnight Oil), Believer (Imagine Dragons), Birds Of A Feather (Billie Eilish), Black Betty (Ram Jam), Black Dog (Led Zeppelin), Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden), Black Velvet (Alannah Myles), Blaze Of Glory (Bon Jovi), Bliss (Muse), Blow (Ed Sheeran), Bohemian Like You (The Dandy Warhols), Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen), Born In The U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band), Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf), Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band), Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Green Day), Boys Are Back In Town (Thin Lizzy), Brass In Pocket (The Pretenders), Break On Through (The Doors), Breakout (Foo Fighters), Breakout (Swing Out Sisters), Break Stuff (Limp Bizkit), Breed (Nirvana), Brianstorm (Arctic Monkeys), Brick House (The Commodores), Bring Me To Life (Evanescence), Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison), Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones), Bubbles (Biffy Clyro), Buck Rogers (Feeder), Buddy Holly (Weezer), Bulls On Parade (Rage Against The Machine), Butterflies And Hurricanes (Muse), B.Y.O.B. 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Rex), China Girl (David Bowie), Chop Suey (System Of A Down), Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) U2, Christmas Time (The Darkness), Christmas Wrapping (The Waitresses), Cigarettes And Alcohol (Oasis), Cissy Strut (The Meters), Cochise (Audioslave), Cold As Ice (Foreigner), Come As You Are (Nirvana), Come Together (The Beatles), Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd), Complexity (Eagles Of Death Metal), Connection (Elastica), Cool For Cats (Squeeze), Corduroy (Pearl Jam), Cowboys From Hell (Pantera), Crawling (Linkin Park), Crazy Crazy Nights (Kiss), Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen), Crazy Train (Ozzy Osbourne), Creep (Radiohead), crushcrushcrush (Paramore), Cryin' (Aerosmith), Cult Of Personality (Living Colour), Daddy Cool (Boney M.), Dakota (Stereophonics), Dance, Dance (Fall Out Boy), Dancer (Idles), Dance With Me (Blink 182), Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen), Dancing In The Moonlight (Thin Lizzy), Dani California (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Daughter (Pearl Jam), Days (Kirsty MacColl), Day Tripper (The Beatles), Debaser (The Pixies), Decode (Paramore), Denis (Blondie), Design For Life (Manic Street Preachers), Desire (U2), Diamond And Pearls (Prince), Diamond Eyes (Deftones), Disorder (Joy Division), Dive (Nirvana), Doesn't Remind Me (Audioslave), Don't Cry (Guns N' Roses), Don't Dream It's Over (Crowded House), (Don't Fear) The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult), Don’t Look Back In Anger (Oasis), Don't Look Back Into The Sun (The Libertines), Don't Speak (No Doubt), Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac), Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey), Don't Stop Me Now (Queen), Don't You Forget About Me (Simple Minds), Do They Know It's Christmas (Band Aid), Down Under (Men At Work), Down With The Sickness (Disturbed), Do Your Worst (Rival Sons), Drain You (Nirvana), Dreaming (Blondie), Dream On (Aerosmith), Dreams (Fleetwood Mac), Dreams (The Cranberries), Dr. Feelgood (Mötley Crüe), Dude Looks Like A Lady (Aerosmith), Earth Song (Michael Jackson), Easy (Like Sunday Morning) (The Commodores), Easy Lover (Phil Collins), Edge Of Seventeen (Stevie Nicks), Embarrassment (Madness), Enter Sandman (Metallica), Epic (Faith o More), Even Better Than The Real Thing (U2), Even Flow (Pearl Jam), Ever Fallen In Love (Buzzcocks), Everlong (The Foo Fighters), Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Tears For Fears), Every Breath You Take (The Police), Everyday I Love You Less And Less (Kaiser Chiefs), Everything Now (Arcade Fire), Every You Every Me (Placebo), Eye Of The Tiger (Survivor), Fairytale Of New York (The Pogues), Faith (George Michael), Falling To Pieces (Faith no More), Fame (David Bowie), Faster (Within Temptation), Fat Lip (Sum 41), Feel Good Hit Of The Summer (Queens Of The Stone Age), Feel Like Making Love (Bad Company), Feels Like Heaven (Fiction Factory), Feeling Good (Muse), Fell On Black Days (Soundgarden), Fight For Your Right To Party (Beastie Boys), Figure It Out (Royal Blood), Fire Woman (The Cult), First It Giveth (Queens Of The Stone Age), Fisherman's Blues (The Waterboys), Fix You (Coldplay), Float On (Modest Mouse), Floaty (Foo Fighters), Fluorescent Adolescent (Arctic Monkeys), For Reasons Unknown (The Killers), Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival), Fox On The Run (Sweet), Freak (Silverchair), Free Fallin' (Tom Petty), Friday I'm In Love (The Cure), Gasoline (Audioslave), Get Back (The Beatles), Get It On (T. Rex), Gigantic (The Pixies), Gimme All Your Lovin’ (ZZ Top), Gimme Shelter (The Rolling Stones), Girls On Film (Duran Duran), Give It Away (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Give It Up (KC & The Sunshine Band), Gloria (Laura Branigan), God Save The Queen (The Sex Pistols), Good 4 U (Olivia Rodrigo), Go With The Flow (Queens Of The Stone Age), Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)...
Plus 100s MORE videos, charts and ebooks featuring these songs...
1979 (Smashing Pumpkins), 2000 Miles (Pretenders), 6:00 (Dream Theater), 99 Red Balloons (Nena), Aces High (Iron Maiden), Achilles Last Stand (Led Zeppelin), A Day In The Life (The Beatles), Aenema (Tool), Ain't Nobody (Rufus & Chaka Khan), Aja (Steely Dan), A Little Less Conversation (Elvis Presley), Alive (Pearl Jam), All Too Well (Taylor Swift), Amen Brother (The Winstons), Angels Of Death (Slayer), Another Brick In The Wall (Pink Floyd), Alright (Supergrass), Apocalypse Please (Muse), Around The Fur (Deftones), Avon (Queens Of The Stone Age), Baba O'Riley (The Who), Babylon Sisters (Steely Dan), Back In The USSR (The Beatles), Bad (Michael Jackson), Ball Room Blitz (The Sweet), Bandoliers (Them Crooked Vultures), Bang Bang (Green Day), Bargain (The Who), Barracuda (Heart), Bat Country (Avenged Sevenfold), Beat It (Michael Jackson), Been Caught Stealing (Jane's Addiction), Behind Blue Eyes (The Who), Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) (Deftones), Best Of You (Foo Fighters), Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor (Arctic Monkeys), Bicycle Race (Queen), Billie Jean (Michael Jackson), Bitter Sweet Symphony (The Verve), Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden), Black Night (Deep Purple), Black Smoke Rising (Greta Van Fleet), Blaze Of Glory (Bon Jovi), Blinded in Chains (Avenged Sevenfold), Blood On The Ground (Incubus), Blue Monday (New Order), Bonnie The Cat (Porcupine Tree), Bored To Death (Blink 182), Breakeven (The Script), Breaking The Girl (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Breathe (The Prodigy), Bullet In Your Head Rage (Against The Machine), Bullet The Blue Sky (U2), Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins), Burnout (Green Day), Candy's Room (Bruce Springsteen), Can I Play With Madness (Iron Maiden), Car Radio (Twenty One Pilots), Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas), Cars (Gary Numan), Caught Up (Death From Above 1979), Chameleon (Herbie Hancock), Champagne Supernova (Oasis), Change (In The House Of Flies) (Deftones), Cherub Rock (Smashing Pumpkins), Chi Mai (Ennio Morricone), Chocolate (The 1975), Chop Suey (System Of A Down), Chuck E's In Love (Rickie Lee Jones), City Of Delusion (Muse), Closer (Kings Of Leon), Closer To The Edge (30 Seconds To Mars), Cocaine (Eric Clapton), Cold Sweat (James Brown), Constant Motion (Dream Theater), Could You Be Loved (Bob Marley), Crazy (Seal), Crockets Theme (Jan Hammer), Crunge, The (Led Zeppelin), D'yer Mak'er (Led Zeppelin), Da Doo Ron Ron (The Crystals), Dance Of Eternity (Dream Theater), Dance With The Devil (Cozy Powell), Dancing Queen (ABBA), Dani California (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Dark Eternal Night, The (Dream Theater), Dark Necessities (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Dark Side (Muse), Davidian (Machine Head), Day In The Life, A (The Beatles), Days Are Forgotten (Kasabian), Dazed And Confused (Led Zeppelin), Deep Kick (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Detroit Rock City (Kiss), Dig Down (Muse), Digging The Grave (Faith No More), Digital Bath (Deftones), Digital Man (Rush), Don't Ask Me Why (Nik Kershaw), Don't Look Back In Anger (Oasis), Don't Stand So Close To Me (The Police), Don't You Forget About Me (Simple Minds), Down (Blink 182), Do You Want To Rock (Danko Jones), Dr Feelgood (Motley Crue), Drive In Drive Out (The Dave Matthews Band), Drop Dead Legs (Van Halen), Drum Also Waltzes, The (Max Roach), Drumming Song (Florence And The Machine), Duality (Slipknot), Elephant (Tame Impala), Elephant (Them Crooked Vultures), Elephant Stone (The Stone Roses), Emit Remmus (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Englishman In New York (Sting), Eulogy (Tool), Every Breath You Take (The Police), Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (The Police), Execute (Slipknot), Exit Music For A Film (Radiohead), Fat Bottom Girls (Queen), Fear Of A Blank Planet (Porcupine Tree), Fear Of The Dark (Iron Maiden), Feeling This (Blink 182), Fell In Love With A Girl (The White Stripes), Fergus Sings The Blues (Deacon Blue), Fields Of Gold (Sting), Figure It Out (Royal Blood), Fire (Jimi Hendrix), Fire (Kasabian), Fireball (Deep Purple), First Date (Blink 182), Firth Of Fifth (Genesis), Flight Of Icarus (Iron Maiden), Fool In The Rain (Led Zeppelin), Fools Gold (The Stone Roses), For Whom The Bell Tolls (Metallica), Forgotten (Lamb Of God), Forty Six & Two (Tool), Foxey Lady (Jimi Hendrix), Free Flight (Whitesnake), Funky Drummer (James Brown), Get Lucky (Daft Punk) Get Off My Cloud (The Rolling Stones), Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine) (James Brown), Ghost Town (The Specials), Gimme Chocolate (Babymetal), Give It Away (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Give Me One Reason (Tracy Chapman), Gives You Hell (All American Rejects), God Save The Queen (The Sex Pistols), Going Under (Evanescence), Good Old Music (Funkadelic), Good Times, Bad Times (Led Zeppelin), Goodbye (Army Of Anyone), Gotta Be Somebody (Nickelback), Got The Life (Korn), Grace (Jeff Buckley), Green Onions (Booker T and the MG's), Grudge, The (Tool), Head Over Heels (Tears For Fears), Heart Of The Sunrise (Yes), Heartbeat Song (The Futureheads), Hearts All Gone (Blink 182), Heathen (Twenty One Pilots), Heir Apparent (Opeth), Helicopter (Bloc Party), Hella Good (No Doubt), Hellcat Spangled Shalala (Arctic Monkeys), Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles), Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix), Hey Jude (The Beatles), Higher Love (Steve Winwood), Highway Star (Deep Purple), Hocus Pocus (Focus), Hollywood Nights (Bob Seger), Honour Thy Father (Dream Theater), Hot For Teacher (Van Halen), Hot Fun In The Summertime (Sly & The Family Stone), House Of The Rising Sun (The Animals), How To Save A Life (The Fray), I Am The Resurrection (Stone Roses), I Don't Care (Fall Out Boy), I Feel Fine (The Beatles), I Keep Forgettin' (Michael McDonald), I Like Dirt (Red Hot Chili Peppers), I'm Coming Out (Diana Ross), I Miss You (Blink 182), Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin), Inertiatic ESP (The Mars Volta), In My Life (The Beatles), Interstate Love Song (Stone Temple Pilots), In The Air Tonight (Phil Collins), Instant Karma (John Lennon), In My Life (The Beatles), Invisible Man, The (Queen), Ironic (Alanis Morissette), Iron Man (Black Sabbath), It's The End Of The World (REM), It's The Same Old Song (The Four Tops), I Want To Break Free (Queen), I Want It All (Queen), Jack & Diane (John Mellencamp), Jamie's Cryin' (Van Halen), Jamming (Bob Marley) Jesus Christ Pose (Soundgarden), Jesus Of Suburbia (Green Day), Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)...
Extensive Back Catalogue
For the most popular bands, artists and drummers in the world, we feature all of the greatest hits…and some of the more obscure hidden gems as well. Covering all genres of music from Rock, Metal, Jazz and pop – there is a song for all tastes and styles!
Not only that, we have multiple song lessons for the biggest bands/artists as well. Dive into the back catalogue of your favourite groups…
100s of Songs, Beats, Fills & Solos
All full song video drum lessons include the fully transcribed sheet music. As well as this, you also get access to 100s of mini transcriptions plus those within the ebooks.
IMPORTANT: Even though each song lesson does come with a fully transcribed PDF drum chart, there is no need to be able to read it. In fact, this is what makes DrumsTheWord so unique – the video lessons SHOW you how to play the drum parts, both slowly and up to speed.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is DrumsTheWord?
DrumsTheWord is an online subscription platform focusing purely on teaching famous and popular songs, note-for-note. An online membership offers instant access to over 700+ FULL song video drum lessons including the fully transcribed drum charts. Plus access to three massive ebooks, bonus sheet music and 100s more video drum lessons. That's over 1000 hours of video lessons teaching famous songs, beats, fills and even drum solos!
Why not choose other websites?
Unlike other online drum lesson platforms, we focus purely on teaching you real music. Each song is taught through a video drum lesson demonstrating how to perform the parts - both slowly and up to speed. Simply watch, listen and copy! DrumsTheWord shows you how WITHOUT the need to read music. Although as a bonus, all full song video drum lessons comes with the fully transcribed PDF sheet music.
Is DrumsTheWord good for beginners?
Yes! You’ll be able to start playing along to over 100+ easy songs for beginners right away. And these are just the full song video drum lessons, there is also a ton of other material aimed specifically for new drummers. All lessons are categorised by level of difficulty, so you can always find the right song for you.
Am I too old to learn the drums?
Absolutely not. You are never too old to learn the drums. DrumsTheWord has a community of drummers of all ages, and from all over the world. And with lessons covering classic songs starting from the 50s, there is something for all ages and musical tastes.
Does DrumsTheWord have anything for advanced drummers?
For the more skilled tub-thumpers, DrumsTheWord shows you how to play songs from some of the most skilled and technically talented drummers on the planet. What better way to continue to improve your drumming than learning from the best. You’ll never be short of inspiration or practice ideas ever again.
Who is Robert Litten?
Rob has been drumming for over 30 years and teaching for over 20. He also studied drumming at degree level at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, England. Through the years he has taught 100s of pupils one-to-one as well running drum courses at local music academies. For the last 15 years, Rob has focused purely on creating content for DrumsTheWord. With a wealth of experience playing live with multiple bands, teaching and working online, Rob will be able to help you reach your drumming goals.
Do I need to read music?
No. Even though all full song video drum lessons come with a fully transcribed PDF drum chart, there is no need to be able to read it. In fact, this is what makes DrumsTheWord so unique – the video lessons SHOW you how to play the drum parts, both slowly and up to speed. As a bonus, you might even learn how to read music along the way thanks to the fact you get both mediums together.

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