The Starter Book:free for your own lessons
The lesson book I have used since 2011 for beginning drummers from age ten and for adults. Sixteen pages of theory, worksheets, rudiments, reading exercises and the first grooves and fills. Print it, hand it out and use it in your own lessons. In English and in Dutch.
- Theory
- How long is a note? · What does 4/4 mean? · The dot, the tie and the beam
- Worksheets
- Fill the bar · Is the bar full? · Write your own beat
- Rudiments
- Single stroke roll · Double stroke roll · Paradiddle · Stick Control, the first eight
- Reading
- Reading eighths · Reading sixteenths
- Grooves and fills
- Rock beat with variations · First fills · Open hi-hat · Sixteenths on the hi-hat
- At the back
- The drum kit on paper · Two practice-week sheets · Tempo card · Glossary
How I use it
One page a week
Every page teaches one thing, in the order I teach it in lessons. Faster is fine when a student is ready.
"Done when" is the tick
At the bottom of every page is what the student has to play for you before you tick it off together. Not "more or less", but for real.
The tempo card does the work
At the back the student writes down the metronome setting per page. That card does more for motivation than any sticker.
What you may do with it
Print it, hand it out and use it in your own lessons, for as many students as you like. Free. Keep the name dedrum.studio in it, don't change the content and don't sell it. All pages are typeset in LilyPond and grew out of real lessons with real students.
Does the book help you? Then you can buy me a coffee when you download it. That is voluntary, you get nothing extra for it and the book stays free for everyone.
Would you do a page differently, is something missing, or do you use the book and want to let me know? I'd love to hear from you.