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It's hard for anyone to walk by a drum set and not sit down and pick up the drumsticks. With our Drum Lessons: The Ultimate Package, after just a few easy lessons, you'll be able to sit behind the drums and make real music.

And, if you already have some drumming experience under your belt, our drum lessons will help you hone your skills, increase your catalog of licks and take your drumming to a whole new level.

We know the importance the instructor makes when learning how to play the drums, so we recruited Brandon Cruz. Brandon has successful taught hundreds of students around the world to play drums for more than 15 years. In these drum lessons, Brandon gently walks you through the fundamentals step by step to have you up and running before you know it, even if you never played drums before.

Follow our proven method of successive learning, each drum lesson build off of what you had learned about playing the drums in previous lessons. In this manner, you're cementing your previously acquired knowledge while at the same time building upon it.

Starting with the basics, such as how to setup your drum set for optimum performance, our drum lessons quickly move on to body positioning and how to properly hold the drumsticks. These simple elements helps prevent fatigue, improves your accuracy and increases your speed: something is not taught in many of the free drum lessons you find on the internet.

Along with learning basic drum beats and fills, our drum lessons will train your body so each limb will operate independently allowing you to pull off amazing drum beats. Our crystal-clear video features split screen and picture in picture, so you see exactly how each sample is played with both your hands and your feet. And we also provide clear precise drum charts for you to follow along with.

So the next time you sit down behind the drums, you'll really know what you're doing. Get started playing the drums today! 

Basic Rudiments

Our drum lessons will help you successfully master the basic rudiments: the key to a successful drumming career. These drum lessons are a great starting point for the beginning drummer who want to play Rock, Blues, Funk, Country, or Jazz and perfect for those wanting to join a Drumline.

Starting with the proper way to hold the drumsticks and hand positioning, our Drum Lessons - Basic Rudiment focus on balance and coordination with an emphasis on relaxation.  Applying these techniques you'll find your playing will have a more natural feel and your accuracy will be greatly increased.

Our drum lessons will teach you the single stroke roll, technique played in time on the snare drum, and progress onto the double stroke increasing your drumstick control and improving your hand to hand coordination. Learning the rudiments the right way from the beginning will allow you to apply those skills to play a wide variety of fills throughout the drum set.

We'll show you how to combine the single stroke with the double stroke to create paradiddles. These drum lessons work on right and left hand coordination and how to implement paradiddles into your fills.

These drumming lessons also examine various techniques that will allow you to get the most out of your drum set, including the buzz roll and applying finger control techniques, just a few of the aspects you won't find in most free drum lessons on the internet.

And our drum lessons bring it all around show you how to apply all these rudiments throughout the drum set.

Mastering these skills will allow you to play with "tight" feel, and even put a little flash into your playing.

Beginner Drum Lessons

This series of drum lessons is perfect for the beginner who wants to learn to play drums properly the first time, showing you all you need to know for a successful start.

These drum lessons start with an explanation of each drum and cymbal in the drum set, the roles they play, and their characteristic sounds. For optimum performance, we'll walk you through the proper way to set up your drums and the ultimate angles to adjust the toms and cymbals to maximize comfort and prevent fatigue.

We'll focus on limb independence, which will allow you to operate your arms and legs more freely creating a natural easy feel for your grooves and the dexterity to pull off amazing fills. These important elements will also give you greater precision and more control when learning to play drums.

Our drum lessons show you the basic drum beats as used in thousands of songs, along with popular variations as used in thousands more songs.  Each of these variations creates a different feel and are the standard grooves you find yourself playing time and time again during your drumming career.

These drum lessons also contains exercises that will build your hand-foot ordination helping you break away from habitual movements allowing you to play a greater, more impressive range of drum beats and fills.

We'll cover various bass drum pedal techniques such as heel up and heel down technique, their effectiveness and when it's appropriate to apply them.

We also take an in-depth examination on drum fills; from the simple to the complex, along with a discussion on how to create you own personal drum fills. Our drum lessons will even teach you how to incorporate the bass drum into your fills, something you won't find in free online drum lessons on the internet.

These drum lessons will then teach you how to smoothly apply fills into your drum beats so your transitions will be seamless, resulting in that sought after "tight" sound.

These are all the tools you need to be ready to start making real music with your band, and join in on the fun.

Drum Set Lessons Vol. 2

These drum lessons build upon the lessons in Basic on Drums Vol. 1, and are also great lessons for drummers who taken private drum lessons and know their way around the drum set. These lessons will expand your catalog of drum beats and fills, and show you the tricks of trade as used by the pros.

Expanding upon the basic drum beats and patterns, these drum lessons will show you more interesting variations that create exciting new grooves and prepares you for studying more complex styles such as Funk and Jazz.

Basics on Drums Vol. 2 introduces the sixteenth note beat played on the hi-hat, and creating different feels by varying the placement of accents within the beat. These drum lessons examine the different ways of playing the sixteen notes, such as the one hand and two hand techniques.

We'll show you how to integrate left foot hi-hat rhythms into your playing, and examine in-depth the application of open hi-hat into your drum beats.  We also dive deeper into increasing hand-foot coordination to bring together your hi-hat technique.

Then we view new ways to apply these drum lessons throughout the entire drum kit to diversify your sounds and prevent your grooves from sounding tedious. These drum lessons tie it together for the drummer who want to learn how to play the drums with proper technique and have the ability to move on to more complex styles.

Our drum lessons will bring your playing to life and make you sound like a well-seasoned pro.

Free Play Along for Drums - Bonus

It's our small way of saying thanks and letting you know we value you as a customer.

Drummers, hone your chops with our Groove Arsenal Play Along Vol. 1.

Groove Arsenal Play Along Vol. 1 is a band in search of a drummer, and you get the gig.  This follow up is great for your drum lessons because you get to apply all the techniques you learned.  While improving your drumming skills you'll learn to play drums in various styles, so you're prepared for just about any situation that might come up at your next gig or recording sessions.

Become a versatile drummer who plays many styles with authenticity.