Drums

Great Drum­mers
to Check Out

-Carter Beau­ford
-Stew­art Copeland
-Neil Peart
-Manu Katche

Drum Tool­box

-Metronome
-Musi­cal Dic­tio­nary
–Drum Worksheets

A lit­tle about the Drums…

 There are a few basic parts of the guitar:

• Snare: The snare drum is the most impor­tant drum in your kit and pro­duces the sound the cuts through most in songs dri­ving the beat for­ward. The sound pro­duced is a high pitched vibra­tion cre­ated by the wire “snares” stretched along the bot­tom head of the snare drum.

• Bass Drum: The bass drum is the punch at the bot­tom of your drumkit, the boom-boom-boom that dri­ves the music for­ward, works with the bass player to estab­lish a groove and kicks out impor­tant accents.

• Toms: Your toms are the color in your kit. A typ­i­cal drum­set will have two or more toms; the more toms you have, the more options you have when play­ing fills or solos around the set.

• Cym­bals: A drum­set is more than just drums..it also con­tains sev­eral cym­bals of var­i­ous types. Cym­bals are made from cast or stamped brass and come in a vari­ety of shapes, sizes and weights. Every set should have at least one of these three types of cym­bals: Ride, Crash & High-Hat.

The drums can also be played using drum nota­tion as in the exam­ple below…