10 Minute Beginner Snare Drum Play Along Lesson

All right, everybody, let's get to it. Play along video. Just play along with me. You should be good. Here we go. Start off with some good old eights. Stretch those fingers out. All right, start off with regular eight on the hand. Here we go. One, two, ready, eights. I want you to imagine yourself with a tennis ball in each hand, bouncing the ball off the pad. Again, and relax. Let's just stay on the right hand. Stay on the right. Make sure that right hand stays in playing position. Back to the left. You want to make sure every note is full out and exact. Make sure you're hitting in the middle of your pad. Let's go to both hands. Ready, and mistake. Now, right here, make sure you're hitting both sticks together. You don't want to get the fluff, fluff sound. That's wrong. It should be hitting together. Both stick heights the same. Just do an eight on the hand now. Stay down. Use your fingers to keep it down. Stay right there. Make sure that left hand is staying in playing position. Make sure you're focused, looking straight ahead. Only focusing on the drums right now. Only focusing on the drums. Left hand. Lock in. Make sure your knuckles are facing up. Both hands. Just the left hand. Both hands together. We're probably feeling a slight burn right now because how long we've been playing, but we're still playing with control. Using nothing but our wrists. Minimum arm. Just a little bit of arm. Not much at all. Let's end it right here and shake it out. Ready, and off. Good. Shake it. Now, we're going to do 80 on the hand. We're going to do 10 sets of eight on each hand. 10 sets of eight on the right, 10 sets of eight on the left. Let's do it. Two, one, two, ready, and one, two, three, four, seven, ten. Left hand now. One. Keep that right hand in playing position. Two, three, four, six, seven, ten. Both hands together now. One, four, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. And on the right, off. We end it on the right because that's the hand we started on. Now, let's do that same thing again. This time, asset the first beat. Everything else is taps. So, you have one asset and you have seven taps. Now, on our taps, we keep that stick down here at three inches, all right? All right, use your fingers to keep it down. So, once you hit that first note, still a rebound stroke, but it only rebounds to three inches. Here we go. One, two, ready, and one, two, good, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Let's go to the left hand. One. Same concept. Two, four, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Good. Both hands now. One, four, keep it together, eight, ten, and off. Good. All right, we got that. So, you got that? Now, let's do it all on one hand. Now, we're only going to eight. Eight on the right, eight on the left. First, we asset the first note, then we asset the first two notes, all the way until we get to this. All right, here we go. Two, ready, and one. Now, asset two. One, two. One, two, three. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five, six. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one. One, two. One, two. One, two, three. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four, five. 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 Good, 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1. Good. Shake it out. All right. Now let's do the same thing while alternating. Now we're going to go alternate. What does alternate mean? Go from right to the left, right to left. Here we go. 1, 2, 1, 2, ready, and 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Good. Let's do that again. I rushed that last note. Let's do that again. Remember, we're still using those rebound strokes, all right, and that down stroke. Here we go. 1, 2, ready, and 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. All right. All you got to do is play along to this whole video. Do it twice, all right, and that'll be a good workout for you, all right? We got it? Peace.