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Not just another book of beats and rolls, The Ultimate Guide To Rock Drumsis the frstfully developed system that teaches you what you want and when you need it. Thissystem, based on years of teaching experience takes you from basic rock grooves rightup to heavy rock, punk and funky beats in a short amount of time.

All exercises are laid out in a logical fashion, building upon each other from chapter tochapter. Learn how to read and understand drum notation in a way that is unique andstraight ahead. The Ultimate Guide To Rock Drumsgives you the drumset skills youneed to go out and start rocking with a band TODAY!

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The Ultimate Guide to Rock Drumsby Neal Busby and Brad McNeice

Congratulations! You have just purchased the most complete and straight forward guide to rock drum-

ming on the market today!

Neal and Brad are two of Canadas busiest drum teachers because they offer one thing that many other

teachers dont... RESULTS! The material in this book is easy to learn, and organized so there is a natu-

ral progression from start to nish. This means that you not only get results... but you get them FAST!

Visit www.theultimateguidetorockdrums.com to get news on future publications, and access to all

kinds of free media!!!

But enough chit chat... LETS GET ROCKIN

Copyright 2009 Neal Busby and Brad McNeice

Published and distributed by Mayfair Montgomery Publishing Markham Ontario Canada L3R 3W3

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No part of this publication may be reproduced, arranged, stored or digitized in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1-3

Chapter 1

Eighth Note Rock 4-11

Eighth and Sixteenth Fills 12-25

Eighth Note Rock With Sixteenth Snares 26-31

Eighth Note Rock with Sixteenth Kicks 32-35

Eighth Note Rock With Sixteenth Kick and Snares 36-37

The Big Four 38-39

Eighth Note Rock On The Floor Tom 40-41

Three, Three, Two 42-43

Flams 44-46Eighth Note Rock With Open Hats 47-48

Chapter 2

Sixteenth Note Slow Rock 49-56

Sixteenth And Thirty-Second Note Fills 57-59

Chapter 3

Sixteenth Note fast Rock 60-70

Broken Sixteenth Fills 71-75

Chapter 4

Quarter Note Fast Rock 76-88

Fast Rock Fills 89-91

Chapter 5

Triplet Rock 92-94

Shufe Rock 95-99

Shufe Fast Rock 100-104

Triplet Fills 105-107


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IntroductionReading Notation

This picture of a standard ve piece drum set claries the names of the drums in your set and shows

you what they look like when theyre written in music.

Below is this books notation legend. It is a good idea to memorize this legend and all of the drum

names by quizzing yourself. Your condence in knowing which note is which will allow you to prog-ress through the book quickly.

Hi-hat Crash Tom 1 Snare Kick Tom 2 Tom 3 Ride

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IntroductionUnderstanding Time

Most rock music is written in 4/4 time. This means that when you count a bar of music you count

One, Two, Three, Four and then repeat. The exercises below represent the common elements of 4/4

rock.

This bar is an example of quarter notes played on the hi-hat. A quarter note can be identied as a note

with a stem. This note should be played on the hi-hat with your right hand and counted out loud One,

Two, Three, Four.

The next bar is an example of eighth notes played on the hi-hat. Eighth notes are simply a sub-divided

quarter note. This means that two eighth notes take up the same amount of space as one quarter note.

You can identify an eighth note as a note with a stem and one connecting line on the top called a tail.

This bar is to be played on the hi-hat with your right hand and counted out loud One, and, Two, and,

Three, and, Four, and

The nal bar is an example of sixteenth notes played on the hi-hat. A sixteenth note is a subdivided

eighth note. This means that two sixteenth notes take up the same amount of space as one eighth note

and four sixteenth notes take up the same amount of space as one quarter note. You can identify a six-

teenth note as a note with a stem and two tails. This bar is to be played on your hi-hat with your right

hand and counted out loud One, E, and, A, Two, E, and, A, Three, E, and, A, Four, E, and, A

There are a few more possibilities that we will address later on the book.

R R R R

1 2 3 4

R R R R R R R R

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R

1 E + A 2 E + A 3 E + A 4 E + A

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IntroductionBuilding a Beat

Enough of the technical stuff. Now that weve learned notation and counting, lets build a beat and start

rocking!

The First bar is a classic example of a back beat pattern on the kick and snare. Count out loud as we

place the kick drum on the one and Three and the snare drum one the Two and Four. Its im-

portant to play slowly at rst and make sure your timing is solid.

Bar two is the same rhythm between the kick and snare as bar one, but now we will add a quarter note

hi-hat. Make sure that our hi-hat is landing directly on top of the kick and snare so the beat sounds

tight.

The nal bar is the same kick and snare pattern as the previous two exercises. This time well play

eighth notes on our hi-hat.

Starting to sound like something? This is where it all begins!

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Chapter 1Eighth Note Rock


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Eighth Note Rock

The following page represents eight common placements of kick drum rhythms across a bar of eighth

notes. You probably recognize these beats from many popular rock songs from classic to modern.

Although the beats in this chapter are written as hats, kick and snare, you can easily move your right

hand to your crash, ride or oor tom. This will dramatically change the overall sound of every beat inthis chapter, leaving you with many more possibilities.

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Eighth Note RockWith Double Snares

To the previous beats, we can now add some extra snare hits to increase our beat vocabulary. These

double snare beats are typical of 50s pop rock and surf rock music.

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