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title: Drums & Percussion
description: Drums and percussion instruments provide the rhythmic foundation in music. You will study drum kit setup, stick technique, rudiments, and timing to play various beats, fills, and polyrhythms across different genres.
category: music-audio
subcategory: instrument-training
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/drums-percussion
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# Drums & Percussion

Drums and percussion instruments provide the rhythmic foundation in music. You will study drum kit setup, stick technique, rudiments, and timing to play various beats, fills, and polyrhythms across different genres.

## Available Resources

1 Videos • 3 Books • 1 Websites

## Videos

### 1. The 8020 Drummer — Free Lesson Videos

Free lesson archive centered on time feel, beat placement and subdivision rather than chops. Each entry pairs a video breakdown with written explanation, reducing grooves, kick technique and phrasing to their smallest practicable element.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.the8020drummer.com/lessons

**Tags:** drumming, time-feel, groove, subdivision, kick-drum-technique

## Youtubes

### 1. Drumeo (YouTube channel)

Free channel with over 2,000 videos: kit setup and first beats, technique breakdowns, style lessons, transcriptions and masterclasses with working drummers. Entertainment clips sit alongside instruction, so pick the lesson series rather than browsing.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/@DrumeoOfficial

**Tags:** drumming, drum-kit, drum-technique, drum-grooves, drum-fills

## Books

### 1. The Art of Bop Drumming

**Author:** John Riley

John Riley's method for jazz drumset: ride-cymbal time feel, comping vocabulary on snare and bass drum, brushes, trading fours, soloing and chart reading. Includes audio with play-along tracks featuring Bob Mintzer and James Genus.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/089898890X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** jazz-drumming, bebop, ride-cymbal, comping, brushes

### 2. The New Breed: Systems for the Development of Your Own Creativity

**Author:** Gary Chester

Studio drummer Gary Chester's systems method: hold fixed ostinatos with three limbs while the fourth reads written lines, then rotate roles, lead with either hand, and sing the melody. Trains concentration, click awareness and left-hand lead.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1423418123?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** drumming, coordination, independence, ostinato, sight-reading

### 3. Stick Control: For the Snare Drummer

**Author:** George Lawrence Stone

The 1935 snare method built entirely from sticking permutations, drilled with strict repetition to even out the weak hand. Covers single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flams and dotted figures across 48 dense pages.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.alfred.com/stick-control/p/00-32749/

**Tags:** snare-drum, sticking, rudiments, hand-technique, drumming

## Websites

### 1. 40 Essential Rudiments (Vic Firth Education)

**Author:** Dr. John Wooton

Free hub covering all 40 Percussive Arts Society rudiments, each with notation, a breakdown video from Dr. John Wooton, five-level application exercises, and Bronze-to-Diamond play-along tempos, plus a downloadable rudiment chart PDF.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://ae.vicfirth.com/education/40-essential-rudiments/

**Tags:** drum-rudiments, snare-drum, hand-technique, percussive-arts-society, drumming

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