Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners to Early Intermediate

Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners to Early Intermediate - Drumkit warm up exercises for Advanced Beginner to Early Intermediate drummers ranging from Grade 2 to Grade 6 Drums. There are 20 warm up sheets and the file is a printable pdf. Drum teachers, drum students, and self taught drummers can all make use of this. The exercises use 4 way coordination on most exercises. Styles include Rock, Funk, Blues, Reggae, Metal, Jazz, Latin and marching snare drum. There are intermediate level subdivisions such as quintuplets and sextuplets. Techniques include flams, drags, basic rudiments, accents, buzz rolls, open hi hats, ghost notes.

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Summary

This ebook ‘Drum Warm Up Exercises for Advanced Beginners to Early Intermediate’ has been written for drummers to play at the start of a practice session or drum lesson. Drum teachers can use this as a teaching resource to get the drum lessons started with. The exercises will need to be learned and worked out first and then they can be used as a warm up exercise many times over, and perhaps some of them will be memorised and used the most.

Contents

  1. Snare Drum rhythm and Flam exercises, and swing in 3/4.
  2. Sextuplets with accents on snare, and basic beats with open hi hats and moving to ride
  3. Subdivision based snare drum exercise with walking foot pattern.
  4. Varying 16th note rhythms moved around kit with walking feet.
  5. Combinations of 8th note and 16th note rhythms with stepped hi hats.
  6. ‘Triplet Warm Up’ on the snare drum with bass drum and stepped hi hat foot patterns.
  7. Snare or practice pad warm up (no foot patterns). Drags, flams, accented sextuplets and quintuplets.
  8. Paradiddles Warm Up – moving the paradiddle rudiment to create beats with hi hat and ride cymbal.
  9. ‘Snare March in 3’ – With buzz rolls and marching snare drum. Includes optional bass drum and stepped hi hat patterns.
  10. ‘Accented 16th Notes’ on the snare drum with walking bass drum and stepped hi hats.
  11. ‘Buzz Rolls and Rhythms’ – mostly snare drum based with foot patterns. First bar of each line is filled with a buzz roll and then various rhythms are played every second bar.
  12. ‘Drags & Accents Snare Groove’ – Accented back beat and bass drum on beat 1 to create a basic rock beat whilst the snares play 16th notes and perform drags.
  13. ‘Ride and Floor Toms warm up with accents and foot patterns’ – 4 way co-ordination based warm up with both feet and both hands all together.
  14. Bossa Nova Latin Warm Up – Latin drum exercises with 3-2 and 2-3 Clave.
  15. Jazz Warm Up – Jazz drum beats and drum fills. Gets a little bit too hard if players have not played jazz before, but keep to the easier bars if needed.
  16. Rock, Blues and Reggae Warm Up – Briefly covers each style with drum beat and drum fill exercises
  17. 12 Double Kick Warm Up Beats – This one is for drummers that have 2 bass drums or a double kick pedal. The beats get quite difficult and rhythmic and will be too hard for drummers that have never played this style before.
  18. Subdivision Warm Up – Covering quarter notes, 8th notes, triplets, 16th notes, quintuplets, sextuplets and 32nd notes. All with optional walking foot pattern.
  19. 10 Funk Skip Beats Warm Up – Funk themed beats with ghost note skip beats and with open hi hats, to be repeated perhaps 4 times each or more.
  20. 10 16th Note Hi Hat Beats Warm Up – with skip beats and varying bass drums. Hi Hats and 16th notes should be played with 2 hands, alternating throughout.

Ability Levels

The ability levels I have used these exercise with range from Grade 2 and 3 pupils, where we spend quite a bit of time actually learning how to play each exercise, to Grade 5-6 drummers that can sight read these fairly easily and with some learning they can play through them as a warm up. I have even used these with some grade 8 players because they are new exercises, so it’s something fresh for them. It works on their sight reading skills as well as using 4 way co-ordination. The exercises could definitely be more complex to cater for grade 8, but they have still been quite useful and worthwhile.

About the Drum Warm Up Exercises ebook

There are 20 warm up sheets in this pdf ebook and the file is printable. Drum teachers, drum students, and self taught drummers can all make use of this. The exercises use 4 way coordination on most exercises. Styles include Rock, Funk, Blues, Reggae, Metal, Jazz, Latin and marching snare drum. There are intermediate level subdivisions such as quintuplets and sextuplets. Techniques include flams, drags, basic rudiments, accents, buzz rolls, open hi hats, ghost notes.

This ebook follows on from my previous ebook ‘Early Intermediate Drum Exercises’, but it was initially created shortly after starting work on ‘Beginners Drum Warm Up Exercises’ because I wanted to make some similar exercises for my students that were further along with their progression.  Another book that may be of interest that would follow on from this is ‘40 Beats and Fills Exercises Drum Book 3’.

I have been playing drums for 30 years and actually I have benefitted from playing through these, particularly the exercises with stepped hi hats in. You can really push these exercises to high speeds and also develop them yourself to make them harder or more varied.

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Here is a glimpse into the ebook, they are my 3 favourite warm up exercises from the book.

1. Paradiddles Warm Up

When I made this warm up sheet I thought, I can’t make a drum warm up book without there being paradiddles in there. I jammed though some beats with the paradiddles as the backbone and I played though all of these but also developed the bass drum beats to form more of a groove, and sometimes played bars with no bass drums at all do give some space to the beats. So, these are the fundamentals but I do recommend trying to develop the beats once these can be played more effortlessly.

2. 16th note snare accents with walking feet

Accented 16th notes are fairly easy and an enjoyable exercise for me. I often use the double stroke technique to add doubles to unaccented notes but here they are all clean singles. The non accented notes should be played quitely, almost like ghost notes, and the accents loud but not too heavy. The feet should be constant and steady.

3. Double Bass Drum Warm Up Exercise

I’m a big fan of metal and heavy rock drumming so I enjoyed slipping in this exercise into the ebook. It’s possibly too hard for the suggested ability levels and many of the people buying the book might not have a double kick pedal or two bass drums, but if even 1 drummer gets use out of this I’ll be happy I put it in there

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