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How To Play Drums - Your Very First Drum Lesson
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everyone its Jared here and today I'm
going to teach you how to get started on
the drums so maybe you just got your
drum set maybe you want to get a drum
set and you're gonna kind of check out
how to learn but this is the video
that's gonna show you how to do that
this is for absolute beginners now I
want you to stick around to the end of
this video as well so you could get a
free gift for me alright so let's get
started on the kit now you have all
these different pieces it could be a
little bit confused when you first get
started so we're just gonna focus on
three different pieces we're gonna focus
on the high hats we're gonna focus on
the snare drum and then we're going to
focus on the bass drum okay so out of
these three pieces we're gonna build our
first drum beat so first let's start on
the hi-hat now when you listen to a song
generally you'll tap your feet right so
just think of any song think of your
favorite song and start tapping your
foot to it now what's the time you're
tapping on clear notes
okay here's tapping alone with a song so
let's do a slower song me okay now for
every one of these snaps we want to hit
those high hats two times okay and we
want the notes to be evenly spaced and
to make it easy we can count one and two
and three and four and one and two and
three and four and count with me two and
three and four and one and two and three
and four now this on a piece of sheet
music would look like that okay so you
see a little X's and above each of those
X's you'll see one and then an and two
and three and four and now all we have
to do is hit the hi-hat with your lead
hand your main hand if you're
right-handed play with your right hand
if your left hand and play with your
left hand we're gonna hit the hi-hat on
all of those X's okay here we go I'm
gonna put on a metronome we're gonna
play along with it
so now we've got the hi-hat down just
make sure that each of those hits are
evenly spaced between each other so
you're not going one end-to-end three
and four and make sure all be evenly
spaced and in time with the metronome
okay it's a one and two and three and
four and now what we're gonna do is
we're gonna add the snare drum on the
two and the four
so when you say to you hit the snare
drum and when you say four you hit the
snare drum and that would sound like
this so it's pretty easy we've got to
this point we're playing the hi-hat and
the snare drum so now let's focus on
your foot
okay the foot pedal or the bass drum and
we're not even gonna worry about the
snare drum we're just gonna play the
hi-hat along with the bass drum the bass
drum is me play it on counts one and
counts three you'll see the shape music
right here on the screen and so all you
need to do on those counts is just hit
the bass drum right in time with the
hi-hat so that would sound like this
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now once you feel comfortable with that
you put it all together you'll play the
bass drum on counts one and counts three
this snare drum one counts two and a
four and then the hi-hat on the one and
two and three and four end it's as
simple as that so let's put it all
together again at 60 beats per minute so
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once you feel comfortable playing it at
a nice slow tempo like we were you can
start to speed it up so we're playing it
at 60 beats per minute let's try it at a
hundred beats per minute and hear how it
sounds so there are so many things we
can learn the drums
it's literally endless this is just
something to get you started you could
eventually get into all the different
techniques you can get into all the
theory like really understanding the
note value tree and stuff like that but
I really just wanted to give you
something to get you hooked because I
know if I teach you a beat that's played
in thousands or millions of songs you
could at least turn on the radio you
could put in your favorite album and you
can most likely play along with it so I
really hope you enjoyed this lesson I
really hope it's enough to get you
started so now I really to give you the
free gift I talked about at the
beginning basically what I did is I
hired a bunch of professional musicians
to come in and record a song now I'm
gonna remove the drum part that I put in
the song
you can become the drummer
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it's so much fun to play along to real
music that's why we play drums so we can
become musicians we can interact with
other people and I really want to get
you to that point where you can play
music as soon as possible
that's we do here at drum you so go
ahead click the link right below this
video to download your free gift and
maybe one day I'll see a video of you
playing this song up on YouTube thank
you so much for watching like I said
it's Jared from drum you if you ever
need anything else has come to drum near
comm we absolutely love playing drums
and we love hanging it with drummers so
thanks for watching and I'll see you
again very soon
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