Lesson Library
This is my current curriculum that I use every day with my private lesson students. Click on the titles below to see the lesson worksheet.
Level 1
- Eighth Notes – Introduction
- Pad Exercises – Eighth Notes
- Eighth Notes – Eighth Note Beat
- Measures / Bars
- Eighth Notes – Creating Fills
- Eighth Notes – Kick Patterns
- “3 + 1” Pattern For Fills
- The Crash Cymbal
- Pad Exercises – Sixteenth Notes Trainer
- Pad Exercises – Subdivision Chain (Basic)
- Progress Checkpoint #1
Level 2
Level 3
- Pad Exercises – Sixteenth Note Triplets
- Pad Exercises – Sixteenth Notes – Possible Combinations
- Pad Exercises – Triplets – Possible Combinations
- “Swingy 16” Beat
- Alternate Snare Beats
- Half-Time & Double-Time Beats
- Pad Exercises – Flams
- Pad Exercises – Drags
- Progress Checkpoint #3
Level 4
- Rhythmic Block Focus – Introduction
- Pad Exercises – “1 E +” (Coconut)
- Kit Application – “1 E +” (Coconut)
- Pad Exercises – “1 + A” (Strawberry)
- Kit Application – “1 + A” (Strawberry)
- Pad Exercises -“1 E” (Chicken)
- Kit Application -“1 E” (Chicken)
- Pad Exercises – “1 E A” (Burrito)
- Kit Application – “1 E A” (Burrito)
- Quarter Note Triplets
- Half-Time “Shuffle”
- Kit Application – Accenting Notes
- Pad Exercises – Accenting Notes
- Pad Exercises – Subdivision Chain (Advanced)
- Triplets – Creating Fills
- Progress Checkpoint #4
Warm Up Exercises
Misc Lesson Materials