Drum Rudiments are specific patterns that the sticks play that make up the various beats and fills that the drummer uses in a song.

To master the Drum Rudiments you first have to play them slowly and carefully on a practice pad or snare drum, and then when you’ve got the sticking pattern down you can use the Rudiment in your drum patterns on the Drum Set.

I’ve talked a lot about Rudiments on one of my other Blogs, The Percussion Education Blog

The Single best product available for helping you learn the Rudiments is the Drum Rudiments System from Railroad Media. In this product Lionel Duperon methodically demonstrates the 40 Drum Rudiments, and then demonstrates applications on the Drum Set

The Rock Drumming system advanced book contains complex drum music sheets including Crossover Exercises, Open/Close Hi-hat patterns and Linear Beats.

If you really want to accelerate your Rock Drumming you’ll find hours and hours of inspiration and material to work through with the Advanced workbook from the Rock Drumming System.

I’ve spent many hundreds of dollars and many hours working through Drum Books, and I’ve found that a major indicator of how good a book is is how long it can get me working at it on the drums.

The Advanced Workbook from the Rock Drumming system will have you working for hours to master all of the complex patterns in it – and you’ll experience true growth as a musician if you work through it all.

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If you’ve been learning to play drums just a little while, and feel like you’re a bit “stuck in a rut” with your drumming, then perhaps the Intermediate book from the Rock Drumming System might be the right ticket for you to advance your drumming carreer.

In the Intermediate book from The Rock Drumming system you’ll learn all about Ghost Notes, which are one of the most critical factors in getting yourself to sound good on the drums.

You’ll also learn how to create those open high hat sounds - and create fantastic sounding grooves for pop and dance music.

The beats which you’ll learn in the Intermediate DVD from the Rock Drumming system will really set you up and improve your Rock Drumming.

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For this reason I’ve worked a lot on my jazz drumming over the years. I’ve found that the independence and comping skills are particularly helpful in improving my overall drumming.

I recently got a new DVD set from Mike Michalkow called the Jazz Drumming System – and it is the most complete Jazz drumming book I’ve ever seen!

It contains so much material that I think I’ll be practicing for weeks just to get through it all! It has over 650 Jazz Drumming exercises to build up your independence between the hands.

On the DVD Mike even goes through how to tune your drums and pick the right cymbals to sound right for Jazz, something I found really helpful.

It also goes through indepth the Jazz Cymbal Patterns, the Shuffle styles and how to apply them correctly, whether you are playing in a Big Band or a Small Jazz Combo.

So click here to check out the Jazz Drumming System from Mike Michalkow

There is a course that takes you through step by step – and all the videos are only available online.

This courses major advantage over its competitors is that you don’t have to wait for anything to be shipped to you – you can get started straight away and learn from the over four hours of video lessons included. 

If you’ve never even picked up a pair of sticks before, then Begin Drumming will be perfect for you.

Drum Expert Jim McCarthy takes you through step by step how to

•  Hold and move the sticks
•  Set up your drum kit properly
• Play Basic Rock and Pop patterns
• Play in time with a band

The course costs $49.95 USD which is quite reasonable considering the amount of content included. Click here to visit begindruming for Five Free Sample Lessons.