The Beginner's Guide To Jazz Drumming

Learn to count triplets and execute swung rhythms by alternating right and left hands, recognizing how missing the middle triplet yields swung eighths.

Learn a thorough bar-by-bar approach to soloing on the snare drum using quarter notes and eighth notes, with counting, pausing, stitching bars, and running the whole piece.

Discover the jazz ride cymbal pattern and practice the rhythm with palm-down or thumb-up grip. Focus on equal stick heights and identical tones for every note.

The lecture covers common jazz forms like 12-bar blues, 32-bar aa ba songs, and teaches counting eight-bar phrases by marking measures, noting A and B sections and the B bridge.

Practice playing along with the recording of 'I'm Beginning to See the Light' by Frank Sinatra, count the beats, and follow the chart to develop timing and groove.

Practice a drum solo around the drums using quarter notes and eighth notes, counting bars and building from two to eight bar segments before the piece to reinforce bar-by-bar technique.

Learn comping techniques and how to play along with the double up by Lee Morgan, designed for beginner jazz drumming.

Learn feathering the bass drum with a tiny beater touch to create a warm low end and fullness, while the left foot hi-hat marks time and complements the ride cymbal.

Develop snare soloing using quarter notes, eighth notes, and triplets through guided counting patterns and bar-to-bar rhythm variations. Master sequencing and phrasing for jazz drumming.

Learn to resolve a phrase in jazz drumming. Use a crash on beat one or at the end of four with cymbal and bass drum to cue the next phrase.

Practice the figures on the head to Blue Train, repeat them two times each, and count one, two, three to build jazz drumming technique.

Explore additional comping rhythms for jazz drumming by adding snare patterns on the end of two and four, accents on offbeats, and coordinated 1-2-3-4 feels.

Explore additional ways to resolve a jazz phrase using short triplet snare patterns, crash on beat one, and extended time of one and a half bars before the next beat.

Explore comping behind John Coltrane on Blue Train in the beginner's guide to jazz drumming by practicing sample courses and the first two courses of Coltrane's solo.

Practice closed and open hi hat beats in jazz drumming, coordinating foot and stick on beats two and four, and tune from dry to washy for a balanced tone.

Practice playing along with don't get around much anymore by Nat King Cole, counting the eighth-note bar and marking beat one of the first two a sections with both feet.

Perform a finale solo around the drums that weaves together learned techniques. Follow counts from one to four and progress from four bars to eight, then the full beat.