Free Drum Lessons

Groove Embellishment

Starting with a foundational groove, this lesson adds embellishments to develop the groove and create two-measure repeating patterns.

Applying The "Hand Kick Kick" - Double Bass Pattern

This lesson demonstrates a foundational double kick pattern and applies it to create some cool grooves.

Ghost Lesson

This lesson explores embellishing grooves with ghost-strokes. Starting with a foundational groove, each exercise adds more ghost strokes.

More Beats From Stick Control #33

This lesson lays down some grooves derived from pattern #33 from the famous Stick Control book by George Lawrence Stone. Chart-Topping Drum Fills: The 60s Through Today Skype Drum Lessons

Expression With Accents

This lesson explores the technique of accenting to create more expressive grooves. Snare Drum Workbook Chart-Topping Drum Fills

This Monday lesson takes a shot at the Rock Shuffle, a technique used in many hit songs including Morrison Hotel by The Doors, The Wanderer by Dion, Heartache Tonight by The Eagles and So What by Pink to name a few.

Four Classic Drum Beats

This lesson explores 4 popular drum beats using Nate's new book Chart-Topping Drum Beats: The 60s Through Today.

Happy - Pharrell Williams - Groove

This week's Monday lesson goes over the groove from the hit song Happy by Pharrell Williams.

Leave It Open

This sheet accompanies Nate Brown's video drum lesson exploring techniques with the open hi-hat cymbal to create layered grooves.

5 Chart-Topping Beats With Embellishing

In this lesson, learn 5 beats from chart-topping songs that use the embellishment of the open hi-hat and/or ghost strokes. This page is a sample from Nate Brown's book Chart-Topping Drum Beats.

Syncopated 9/8 Grooves

In this drum lesson, learn a funky beat played in 9/8, techniques for counting 9/8, and also some cool variations of the 9/8 groove.

Tom Craze

In this lesson, we start with foundational groove and then embellish it by moving strokes to the toms. This sheet is organized so that each groove keeps all of the toms from the previous groove while adding more.