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
- Drum Kit ID
- The Drummer’s Main Job
- Quarter Notes – Introduction
- Quarter Notes – Snare / Pad Exercises
- Quarter Notes – Quarter Note Beat
- How To Use A Metronome
- Tempo
- The Count
- Rudiments – Introduction
- Rudiments – Single Stroke Roll
- The Secret Formula For Progress
- Eighth Notes – Introduction
- Eighth Notes – Snare / Pad Exercises
- Eighth Notes – Eighth Note Beat
- Measures / Bars
- Eighth Notes – Creating Fills
- Eighth Notes – Kick Patterns
- “3 + 1” Pattern
- The Crash Cymbal
- Progress Checkpoint #1
Level 2
- Fill Introduction & Guidelines
- Play Along With Recordings
- Time Signature
- Sixteenth Notes – Introduction
- Sixteenth Notes – Development Trainer
- Sixteenth Notes – Snare / Pad Exercises
- Subdivision Chain – Basic
- Sixteenth Notes – Creating Fills
- Basic Hi-Hat Techniques
- 6/8 Beat
- Floor Tom Beats
- Sixteenth Notes – Single-Handed Hi-Hat Beat
- Sixteenth Notes – Alternating Hi-Hat Beat
- Progress Checkpoint #2
Level 4
- Sixteenth Notes – 15 Possible Combinations
- Rhythmic Block Focus – Introduction
- Rhythmic Block Focus – “1 E + “
- Rhythmic Block Focus – “1 + A”
- Rhythmic Block Focus -“1 E”
- Rhythmic Block Focus – “1 E A”
- Rudiments – Paradiddle
- Triplets – Introduction
- Triplets – Snare / Pad Exercises
- Triplets – 7 Possible Combinations
- Triplets – Triplet Beat
- Triplets – Shuffle Beat
Misc Lesson Materials