Online Lessons
- NEW! Hand Drumming: "Kuku" VIDEO (YouTube link)
Get the (boxed and standard) notation here: Hand Drumming: "Kuku" NOTATION (pdf)
- NEW! Paradiddle Inversion Drumset Application (YouTube link)
- Hand Drumming: "Heel/Toe Roll & Tumbao" (YouTube link)
- Double Bass Drumming: "Drop Two" (YouTube link)
The first PowersPercussion video drum lesson on YouTube! Check back . . . MANY more to come!
- NEW! Mel Bay 'Percussion Sessions' Hand Drumming Crash Course: Part Four (external link)
Intro to Heel and Toe strokes.
- Mel Bay 'Percussion Sessions' Hand Drumming Crash Course: Part Three (external link)
In this third installment (which includes video clips!) we incorporate 16th-notes and 16th-rests, allowing for even more interesting patterns!
- Mel Bay 'Percussion Sessions' Hand Drumming Crash Course: Part Two (external link)(with video clips!)
This lesson combines the basic hand drum strokes from Part One, creating several great sounding rhythms!
- Mel Bay 'Percussion Sessions' Hand Drumming Crash Course: Part One (external link)(with video clips!)
This introductory lesson explores some common hand drum strokes and sounds, and then combines them to create a few easy rhythms.
- NEW! Gahu: Part Two (pdf)
Learn how to play the boba master drum rhythms of Gahu, a recreational dance of the Ewe people of Ghana. Presented in both standard and 'boxed' notation styles. Published in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of World Percussion & Rhythm.
- Drumming The Clave (pdf)
Utilize "clave" to create cool hand drum grooves and exercises!
- Jammin' the Kpanlogo (pdf)
An introduction to the Kpanlogo rhythms of the Ga people of Ghana, West Africa.
- Drum drum drum: How to beat out a groovy rhythm (pdf)
published in the March 2007 issue of Salem Monthly.
- Floubles
A Drummer's Digest follow-up to 'Fliplets' (below).
Visit the DD website for mp3's of the exercises.
Floubles- English version (pdf)
Floubles- Swedish version (pdf)
- Fliplets
Try out these great triplet exercises, flipped around to work all limb combinations!
written for Drummer's Digest, the Swedish online drum magazine.
Fliplets- English version (pdf)
Fliplets- Swedish version (pdf)
- Gahu: Part One (pdf)
Learn how to play the support drum rhythms of Gahu, a recreational dance of the Ewe people of Ghana. Presented in both standard and 'boxed' notation styles. Published in the Fall/Winter 2006 issue of World Percussion & Rhythm.
- Kuku For You! (pdf)
An introduction to the djembe rhythms of Kuku, from Guinea, West Africa.
- Bring It On #1 (pdf)
Get down with your bad self!
- Bring It On #2 (pdf)
Can you say 'Superimposed Metric Modulation?'
- Songo Revisited (pdf)
Afro-Cuban coordination challenge.
- Gahu Challenge (pdf)
A collage of drum, bell and rattle rhythms from the Ewe 'Gahu' dance piece, all played simultaneously on the drumset!
- Left Foot
Clave for the Cha-Cha (pdf)
published in the April 2006 issue of Percussive Notes.
- Achiagbekor
For Drumset (pdf)
A Ghanaian war dance, transferred to the kit; published in the February
2005 issue of Percussive Notes.
- Easy Double
Bass Drum Licks (pdf)
NOW WITH MP3'S!! (as requested by Jarrod Marks & Allen Hueber)
- Double Bass Drum Exercises For Your Hands (I mean . . . Feet) (pdf)
Develop your foot control, speed and power by practicing hand patterns.
- Quad-a-diddles (pdf)
Paradiddle exercises for marching quad players.
- The Basics of Hand Drumming (pdf)
published in the October 2006 issue of Salem Monthly.
- Zero To
Drummer in 3 Easy Lessons- Lesson 1 (pdf)
A hand drummer's introduction to GUN & DUN strokes.
- Zero To
Drummer in 3 Easy Lessons- Lesson 2 (pdf)
A hand drummer's introduction to GO & DO strokes.
- Zero To
Drummer in 3 Easy Lessons- Lesson 3 (pdf)
A hand drummer's introduction to PA & TA strokes.
