The Benefits

Yentl Doggen playing drums on one of his gigs

There are multiple essays to write about the benefits of drumming. Playing the drum set reduces stress, develops coordination, activates brain power and makes you feel like a rockstar. Besides, drumming is just incredibly fun, and so is learning new things. From the start, I was always interested in writing drum lessons and exercises for other drummers to keep expanding their skills behind the drum set. There is so much to learn, and there are so many ways to do it. On this page, I will regularly share exercises and lessons for beginners, intermediate and expert drummers to enjoy and grow their knowledge!

About Me

After finishing my master’s in drums & percussion and a bachelor’s in jazz studies, I started teaching music in my home country, Belgium. When commencing my world travels at the beginning of 2019, I took the opportunity to teach wherever my travels would bring me. Consequently, I have taught music and drum lessons in plenty of places over the past few years. I always did everything possible at every school to ensure my students had the best education possible. Moreover, I started to write Drum Lessons and Drum Transcriptions to give my students everything they need to become great musicians. 

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Drum Lessons & Exercises

Yentl Doggen playing drums on his exam 

Quality is the number one priority on my website, ensuring that all the drum lessons and exercises on this page or of high quality. Depending on the number and quality of drum activities, some parts are free, and some come as premium products or e-books. All downloads are standard in high-definition PDF or MP3 formats, and you can access two downloads valid for 365 days in your account, reachable on this website or by the email you will receive afterwards. Feel free to message me on the contact page if you have other questions! Start exploring below to find the right fit for you!

 

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Publications

Rhythmical Drills

The Rhythmical Drills eBook series improve rhythmical skills by drilling certain rhythms over various stickings. Rhythmically the book starts moderately easy and complicates chronologically, although that isn’t always the case for the sticking. Rhythmical Drills: Level 1 contains 500 4-bar activities divided by 22 different rhythmic patterns. These exercises can be used by everyone and are helpful for every musician in training who wants to improve rhythmical reading and playing. 

Rhythmic Permutations

Rhythmic permutations is an eBook that logically orders all possible rhythmic combinations within a specific number of beats. The first chapter of the eBook starts with the 3-beat variations. Afterwards, the variations for 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12-beats follow. As a result, Rhythmical Permutations has 8,174 different rhythms divided over 107 pages, making it the perfect archive and foundation for rhythmical- studies, exercises, and reading.

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Rhythmical Reading

The Rhythmical Reading series improve overall rhythm skills. While practising different time signatures, these books start easy and complicate chronologically. Included are 24 16-bar studies and six 32-bar knowledge reviews. The sticking is included in every exercise; however, these studies can be used by everyone and are helpful for every musician in training that wants to improve rhythmical reading and playing. This book has an audio file attached.

Drum Lessons & Exercises

Free Drum Lessons Posts

Essential jazz drumming independence exercises! (3 drum lessons) | PDF download

These essential jazz-drum independence exercises take you in 3 drum lessons over everything you need

Jazz-drum independence exercises for beginners (3 drum lessons) | PDF download

These jazz-drum independence exercises for beginners take you in 3 drum lessons over everything you

How to play your first groove on the drumset! (4 drum lessons)

Have you have never played the drums before and want to start playing your first

Drum independence exercises for beginners (4 drum lessons) | PDF download

These drum independence exercises for beginners take you in 4 drum lessons and videos over

eBook – Rhythmic Permutations

My first eBook, Rhythmic Permutations, is full of visualised rhythmical possibilities. Explore the rhythmical options

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Do you play the drums?

The drum transcription section includes transcriptions and drum sheet music of popular songs, drum solos and jazz-drum solos with accompanying analyses. I wrote most of these transcriptions for my students or myself to progress and develop as a drummer. Whether a beginner or an experienced drummer, these transcriptions are excellent tools to expand your skills and technique. 

Drum transcriptions

Need help in becoming a Rhythmical expert?

Permutations are my favourite way of becoming an expert in rhythmical reading and playing. It is a fun and fast way to become a better musician than most rhythmical training books. As the idea of permutation is to play or practise all combinations possible, the concept behind permutations is more mathematically than musically. 

Permutations

Everything about music! 

The music theory section contains posts on playing music, the theory behind it, music history and all exercises you need to become a music theory expert. Most of the current posts come straight out of my classes.Playing music and knowing the basics of music theory go hand in hand, and this will get you started!

Music Theory

Watch and learn!

The Drum Book Videos in the educational sections include videos of popular drum book exercises. These videos were made for my students, but I’m happy to share them here so they can be helpful to everybody. You can learn much from watching others’ techniques! Many musicians learn best from watching others perform.

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