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

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Tips on Playing Written Drum Beats

So, now we are going to play this tune in a different key. And we are going to do it by using the exact same numbers, reading in pattern. So, if we look at my keyboard here, we have E flat major, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. So, now I'm going to go through a read this entire piece as it would fall in E major and I can do that because we analyzed it and I know three, five, six, five, six, five, six, five, seven, six, five, three. Flat three, that?s flat three. So, we can go through and because we analyzed the tune, we can just use our analyzed tune to play through it. So, let?s go here. So, three, five, six, five, six, five, six, five, seven, six, five, three, six, six, five, six, five, six, five.

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