Essential Drum Skills Level 2 CDROM

Lessons 11 to 20 take your skills to the next level. These skills equate to Music Grade 4.

By the end of level 2 you will be quite an accomplished player and have the skills to be a confident live performer.

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Here in more detail are the 10 lessons covered in Level 2. To hear an example of the kind of things you'll be able to play at the end of each lesson click the "Hear how you'll sound!" button.

Lesson 11: Introducing Rests Part 1 – Quarter, Eighth and Sixteenth Notes

Introducing rests and how they are used in music to create more varied rhythms on and around the modern drum kit.

Lesson 12: Developing Rests Part 2 – Sixteenth Notes

Using all of the rests studied so far and incorporating them in a series of play-along examples that develop notation reading and performance skills.

Lesson 13: Reading – Combining Rhythms Part 1

Here we begin to combine different note values together to create more complex rhythmic patterns.

Lesson 14: Reading – Further Rhythm Combinations Part 2

We continue our development of combining rhythms providing us with a huge library of essential rhythms.

Lesson 15: Reading – Rhythmic Combinations as Fills Part 3

Builds on Lessons 13 and 14 and provides two challenging drum studies that incorporate the new rhythms you have learned.

Lesson 16: Developing Fills and Counting

In lesson 16 we learn to play short fills that have very wide use in modern drumming. This lesson also continues to build your performance of the new rhythms you have been learning since Lesson 11.

Lesson 17: Reading – Introducing Dotted Notes Part 1

To be able to play more sophisticated grooves requires understanding of the use of dotted notes in music. This first lesson of two parts provides you with practical snare drum studies to build your understanding of dots in readiness for the new grooves in lessons 18 and 19.

Lesson 18: Reading – Introducing Dotted Notes Part 2 (Sixteenth Note Bass Drum Grooves)

In Lesson 18 we introduce much more sophisticated bass drum patterns in our Rock grooves. This is essential work for improving and strengthening your three-way co-ordination.

Lesson 19: Developing Rock Grooves 2 (Sixteenth Note Bass Drum Grooves)

Introducing 16 new bass drum grooves challenging and then strengthening your ability to control the drum kit.

Lesson 20: Performing a Song – ‘The Buzz’

The study of the song ‘The Buzz’ develops reading and performance skills and completion means you can attain Gigajam Drum Level 2.

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