Basic Rock Patterns & Drum Playing Styles

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Play basic rock-and-roll drum patterns and rhythms on your drum kit; learn how with tips from our expert drum and percussion instructor in this free drum kit video music lesson.

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Basic Rock Patterns & Drum Playing Styles
Hi! My name is Frank and we’re going to look at, in this clip, playing a basic rock pattern. This is what you’re going to hear on the radio in America, especially today, but we’ve heard it for just decades, and you’re going to hear it for a long time to come. Basic rock, you can even do it right here; and now you don’t need a drum set, just count to four—it’s that easy, 1 2 3 4 you just rocked, because that’s most of playing a rock pattern. 1 and 3 are played down with your right foot down on bass drum 1 2 3 4, 2 and 4 are played with the left hand on the snare drum. You can play that right now if you’d like on your left leg 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 and then your right hand plays 1 2 3 and 4, and even notes in between 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and so bass drum on 1 and 3, snare drum on 2 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and with the right hand on the hi-hat. Sounds like this 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and now that’s the basic of basics. You can vary things going on, but you’ve probably heard this pattern 2 3 4…no doubt I hear it on the radio all the time; I play it all the time. You can vary what’s going on in the bass drum, you can vary what’s going on in the other hands, sounds a little bit like this…but I encourage you to listen to the styles of music that you want to play. If you’re going to go visit a land, you want to know that language, if you’re going to go play music in a band, you want to know how to speak that language that they’re going to speak, cause you’re going to go represent on stage that language. So spend time in the culture, spend time listening to the music, learn that language and be able to speak it fluently, whether it’s funk, or Latin, or jazz, or rock or just generic world music. Listen hard, practice hard.

About the Expert

Expert: Frank Favacho is the 2004 & 2005 winner of the "Guitar Center Drum Off" and has performed and recorded with a large variety of groups. He currently teaches in Austin, TX. Read More