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Summary: Learn how to read sixteenth note drum notation and sheet music in this free music video on reading basic drum melodies, rhythms, and rests.

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How to Read Sixteenth Note Drum Beats

So now we're going to take a look at our next two measures. And we have, here's our 1, so we have 1, 3, 5, 7 and then in our next measure, we have 1, 3, 5, flat 7. And we have these 16th notes which are the theme of this lesson and there are 4-16th notes to a quarter, right? 4-16ths equals a quarter. So, this is 1-ey and a 2, 3, 4-ey and 1, 2, 3-ey and a 4-ey and a... So you can see how they go by very quick. And our melody line here is 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 6, 5, 3, 2, 5 and again, when you upload this or print this out at home, these numbers are written down but as we keep going on further, I'll explain them but they're not going to be written down. You're going to have to go through them at home and analyze it yourself but you can refer to our analyzation up here to analyze the rest of the tune and it'll help you out a little bit there. So now we can play this, we have 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, buh ba da bum, buh ba dub ah, buh ba dub ah. And here we have flat 7, 6, 5, flat 3, flat 7, 6, 5, flat 3. And you can see how fast this goes if you look at my hands. 1-ey and a 2, 3, 4-ey and a 1, 2, 3-ey and a 4-ey and a... So, 1-ey and 2, 3, 4-ey and a 1, 2, 3-ey and a 4-ey and a 1-ey and a 2, 3, 4-ey and a 1, 2, 3-ey and a 4-ey and a... This is what it sounds like with the left hand. And then we go into our next measures. So that's these two measures right here, measures 5 and 6, we'll go over the next two in just a minute.

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