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title: Drums
description: Drums and drum kits provide the rhythmic backbone for musical performances. Learners will understand stick control, hand-foot coordination, basic rudiments, timekeeping, and dynamic control to play foundational beats and fills across diverse musical genres.
category: music-audio
subcategory: instrument-training
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/drums
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# Drums

Drums and drum kits provide the rhythmic backbone for musical performances. Learners will understand stick control, hand-foot coordination, basic rudiments, timekeeping, and dynamic control to play foundational beats and fills across diverse musical genres.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Websites

## Podcasts

### 1. Drummer’s Resource

**Author:** Nick Ruffini

An interview podcast hosted by drummer Nick Ruffini since 2013, in which professional drummers discuss their careers, touring, playing approach and the business of working in music. Listeners gain practical insight into how working drummers build and sustain their careers.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.drummersresource.com/category/podcasts/

**Tags:** drumming, drummer-interviews, music-careers, touring-musicians

### 2. The Modern Drummer Podcast

**Author:** Modern Drummer Publications

The show that explores the topics that drummers love the most. Sit in during weekly conversations between Modern Drummer managing editor, Mike Dawson, and MikesLessons.com founder and MD columnist, Mike Johnston, as they geek out on drumming technique, practice methods, and their favorite exercises and offer insight on the latest gear and industry happenings.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.moderndrummer.com/

**Tags:** drums, drumming-technique, practice-routines, gear, interviews

## Books

### 1. Stick Control

**Author:** George Lawrence Stone

The 1935 snare-drum exercise book built on hundreds of short sticking permutations of single strokes, drilled at repeat counts to even out the hands. Used to develop control, stroke consistency and endurance rather than repertoire.

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

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1892764040?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, music-performing-arts, instruments

### 2. The Drummer’s Complete Vocabulary

**Author:** John Ramsay, Alan Dawson

John Ramsay's transcription of Alan Dawson's Berklee teaching, covering the Rudimental Ritual, chop-building drills, four-way coordination and solo vocabulary, with remastered audio from Dawson's actual lessons. Gives a structured daily practice routine for jazz drumset.

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

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0769265243?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, music-performing-arts, instruments

### 3. Progressive Steps to Syncopation

**Author:** Ted Reed

Ted Reed's 1958 reading book of one-line rhythmic exercises in 4/4, from quarter notes through sixteenth-note subdivisions. Drummers use the pages as raw material for jazz interpretation, coordination and independence studies far beyond simple sight-reading.

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

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0882847953?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, music-performing-arts, instruments

## Websites

### 1. drumeo.com

Drumeo is an online drum education platform offering comprehensive lessons and technique tutorials from professional drummers. Its library includes video lessons, play-alongs, structured courses, and practice resources for drummers of all levels and styles.

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

**Link:** https://drumeo.com

**Tags:** websites, music-performing-arts, instruments

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