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How to Read Drum Notation

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Summary: Learn great tips on how to read drum notation and sheet music in this free music theory video clip.

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Ryan Larson Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his twelve-key technique... read more

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How to Read Drum Notation

So today we're going to look at a piece in D-flat Major and if you click on the link that is given at the top of the site, this song will come up. It's on my website. You can print it out so you can follow along at home and I'll go through and notate some of the different notes on here. But, we're going to go through and we're really going to look at the different rhythms for each section of the tune every two measures I spot light at different rhythms so if you just want to go through quick and learn your rhythms so you can go site read on your own that cool or if you want to take and go through the whole lines and play and learn these tunes as well, it a good thing for you to go down and get your chops. I'm going to show you how to analyze the tunes so you can site read through it a lot quicker and we read in patterns so by reading in patterns, it makes life a lot easier too. So, we have this simple piece here and again you want to print this out at home or you can just follow along on this screen. You can do it by ear as well and it will be great for you to get your chops down and learn these different rhythms and these different rest and how to play them.

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