Beginner Drum Lessons

Transcript There are different ways that you can play on top of a high hat cymbals. The most standard way you can play from a grove stand point is with a closed high hat, and that is when your high hat pedal id depressed by your left leg or your high hat leg and the …

Transcript There are a few different techniques for the feet that you can use on drum set. One of them is the heel up, and the other one called heel down. It’s exactly what it says, which is basically that your heels are down on the base of the pedals, and you are pivoting your …

Transcript This technique I’m going to use on the pedals is called heel up technique. Now keep in mind you’re dealing with two pedals here. You’re dealing with a high hat pedal and you’re also dealing with the bass drum pedal. The heal up basically is exactly what it says which is your heels are …

Transcript Now we’re going to talk about the High Hat. And the High Hat sort of comprises of two parts. You have the High Hat symbols, which are two of them, and you have the High Hat stand itself. We’ll start with the symbols. You have a bottom High Hat symbol, which is typically a …

Transcript I’m holding the crash cymbal right here and I took it off the stand first to show you how to actually place it on the stand. Typically a crash cymbal is going to be off to your left side if you have one. Drum sets generally have a couple of crashes, they range in …

Transcript If you’re a right-handed drummer, the cymbal off to your right side normally is the ride cymbal. If you’re a left-handed drummer, it’s usually the opposite side. And depending on how you play, you can arrange the ride cymbal in different places, but normally, we’re gonna find it on the right side and if …

Transcript We’re going to talk about the toms on a drum set. Now, what we’re talking about are these drums that sit in front of you, and also the one that may sit to your right. The name ‘tom’ originates about 100 years ago when the drum set was created. The drum set was originally …

Transcript Now I’m going to talk about the snare drum, and this is the drum that normally sits directly in front of you. The snare drum is comprised of two heads as well, the bottom head and the top head, or the playing side head, it has what is called the throw off, or the …

Transcript I’d like to talk to you about the bass drum now and that’s the large drum that sits on the floor. The bass drum comes in a variety of different sizes and it also depends on the style of music you’re playing in. This is a standard size bass drum for, normally for Rock …

Transcript We’re going to take you through all the parts of the drum set now, each individual drum and what makes up the full drums. Basically right now I’m sitting in front of what’s called the 5-Piece Set. 5-Piece indicates the amount of drums that you have, one, two, three, four, five, the fifth one …

Transcript It’s important to warm up and get ready to play so that you avoid any issues when you’re playing the drums like bodily problems and pain, so on and so forth. It’s good to warm up on a drum pad and get yourself ready. But probably the best thing to do is to start …

Transcript Now I want to talk about a different type of stick you may use on a drum set, you may experience while playing drums, and they’re called brushes. This here is called the retractable brush, and what a retractable brush is is a little hook on the end of the brush, if you pull …

Transcript The full stroke is basically a stroke that starts from a certain position and ends back up at that same position. So, we’re gonna start in the air, sort of almost around the tip being near your face, and you’re gonna strike the snare drum and come back up to that position. And what …

Transcript As you know, drumming is a very physical instrument and you may experience fatigue in your hands or your muscles. Some people actually experience pain, which is not good, but most of it’s going to be fatigue. And, developing a fulcrum, or developing the muscles for your fulcrum is something that’s really important. Just …

Transcript Now I wanna talk about fulcrum when we’re talking about gripping the stick. The stick basically has its center point right here, but when you’re hold them in the center, the back end of the stick falls because of the heavier weight on this side of the stick. If you go about an inch …

Transcript There are often a lot of questions about whether you should hold the drum sticks with match grip or traditional grip. And I think it’s a valid question, but you should do some research on why they are held a certain way. First of all, match grip is exactly what it says, where your …

Transcript Now I wanna talk about how the proper way to hold the drum stick is and what we call the grip. In my hand here I have a key and all of you have opened up a car door, or key to your house. Basically what you wanna do is think about the way …

Transcript What I wanna talk about now is how to choose drum sticks. There are a variety of brand and sizes and weights. I use a company called the Vic Firth company and endorsed by them and there are other companies such as Zildjian, Vader, Regal Tip, and you’ll see them as you go into …

Transcript What I want to talk about now is proper posture behind a drum set. The most helpful place to start is which sitting on the stool. What you want to do is get comfortable, obviously, sitting in the direct center of the stool, and make sure that your legs are virtually a 90 degree …

Transcript In order to set up a drum set right, it’s helpful to know all the type of drums that are in front of you, so I’m gonna go through each one so you know what we’re talking about. The drum that sits on the floor in front of you is the bass drum. That’s …

Transcript When choosing a drum set it’s probably most helpful to figure out a budget ahead of time. That way a sales person can help you take the merchandise and sort of fit it into your budget. It’s helpful to do some research on the brand names for drums ahead of time. There are names …

Transcript Hi, my name is Jason Gianni and I’m going to be your Howcast drumming expert for today. I’m a full instructor at the Drummers Collective School of Music in New York City. I’m the drummer on the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song, you may have heard that. I’m happy to be endorsed by some great …