Drum Lessons - 80 Free Video Drum Lessons at Icanplaydrums.com!

Welcome to the internets largest collection of free video drum lessons.

There is a massive 351 regular, 2in1, 3in1 and split-screen Ezybeat videos to be downloaded from the links on this page. You will never be charged for any of these videos, or our weekly Big Drum ezines - period.

You can download over 80 Free Drum Lessons (plus another 40 non video) on everything from basics, rock drumming, jazz drumming, latin drumming, rudiments, double bass, drum solos and playing famous songs, as either WMV or Quicktime video files! In addition to these videos you can download all written content either as PDF, Word or single file Webpage format.

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	Basics Series
1) Stick Technique & Grip 2) What Is Drum Notation 3) How To Play Bass Drums	4) Basic Drumkit Co-ordination 5) Correct Posture 6) Warming Up		7) Glossary Of Drum Terms 8) Basic 1/4 Note Beat 9) Tuning
Counting / Playing Rhythms & Rests
9) Quarter Notes 10) 8th Notes 11) 16th Notes	12) 32nd Notes 13) Triplets (8th Note Triplets) 14) 16th Note Triplets (Sextuplets)		15) 1/4, 8th, 16th, 32nd Note Rests 16) Triplet & Sextuplet Rests
Rock Series
17) Basic 1/4 Note Beats 18) Basic 8th Note Beats 19) Busier Rock Beats	20) Basic Rock Fills 21) Busier Rock Fills 22) Complex Rock Beats		23) 16th Note Beats 24) How To Swing Any Beat 25) Big Tom Fills
	Jazz Series
26) Basic Jazz Cymbal Beat 27) Building The Jazz Beat 28) The Jazz Shuffle	29) Basic New Orleans 30) Basic Jazz Fills 31) Jazz Snare Independence		32) Bass Drum Independence 33) Brush Strokes
	Latin & Funk Series
34) Clave Rhythms 35) Simple Sambas 36) Snare Drum Sambas	37) Salsa / Songo 38) Free Floating Drums 39) 6/8 Afro Cuban		40) Funk - 2 Sound Level Concept 41) Funk - Paradiddle Beats 42) Funk - Half Time Funk Shuffle
Drum Solo Ideas & Double Bass Drumming
43) Using 6's In Fills 44) Using 8's In Fills	45) Advanced Drumkit Patterns 46) Basic Double Bass		47) Double Bass Beats
40 Rudiments Series (3-in-1 & alternate view options) (names taken from PASIC definitions http://www.pas.org/Resources/rudiments/rudiments.html)
ROLL RUDIMENTS 48) Single Stroke Roll 49) Single Stroke 4 50) Single Stroke 7 MULTIPLE BOUNCE RUDIMENTS 51) Multiple Bounce Roll 52) Triple Stroke Roll DOUBLE STROKE OPEN ROLL 53) Double Stroke Open Roll 54) Five Stroke Roll 55) Six Stroke Roll 56) Seven Stroke Roll 57) Nine Stroke Roll 58) Ten Stroke Roll 59) Eleven Stroke Roll 60) Thirteen Stroke Roll 61) Fifteen Stroke Roll 62) Seventeen Stroke Roll	DIDDLE RUDIMENTS 63) Single Parradiddle 64) Double Parradiddle 65) Triple Parradiddle 66) Single Parradiddle-Diddle FLAM RUDIMENTS 67) Flam 68) Flam Accent 69) Flam Tap 70) Flamacue 71) Flam Parradiddle 72) Single Flammed Mill 73) Flam ParradiddleDiddle 74) Pataflafla 75) Swiss Army Triplet 76) Inverted Flam Tap 77) Flam Drag		DRAG RUDIMENTS 78) Drag 79) Single Drag Tap 80) Double Drag Tap 81) Lesson 25 82) Single Dragadiddle 83) Drag Parradiddle 1 84) Drag Parradiddle 2 85) Single Ratamacue 86) Double Ratamacue 87) Triple Ratamacue
"Minus Drums" MP3 Playalong Tracks
* Heavy Rock * Funk		* Salsa * Bebop Jazz
Big Drum Ezine Back Issues..
2006 ISSUES * Jan 1, 2006 - "Fool In The Rain" and Funk Shuffles * April 1, 2006 - Funk Beats Using Cow Bells * May 1, 2006 - Roaring Latin Beats		2007 ISSUES * July 2, 2007 - Polyrhythmic Beats Inside Beats * July 1, 2007 - Airto Moreira Latin Beat * April 1, 2007 - Cross Over Tom Fills * April 2, 2007 - Dead Even Double Strokes * Feb 2, 2007 - Patterns Of 5 Within Triplets
Bonus Printable Lessons! Famous Songs Past & Present
88) Alive 89) Betterman 90) Come As You Are 91) Crawling In The Dark 92) Enter Sandman 93) Harder To Breath 94) Hush 95) Killing In The Name Of 96) My Hero 97) Renegades Of Funk 98) All The Small Things 99) The Anthem	100) Times Like These 101) Under The Bridge 102) This Love 103) 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover 104) Africa 105) Beat It 106) In The Air Tonight 107) Island Magic 108) Jump 109) Roxanne 110) Late In The Evening 111) Reelin In The Years		112) Rosanna 113) Sex Machine 114) Sweet Child O Mine 115) Take 5 116) A Night In Tunisia 117) Under The Bridge 118) Wipeout 119) Smells Like Teen Spirit 120) Fool In The Rain


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