Intro To Jazz Drumming

The course you need to start learning Jazz on the drums. This is the perfect course of Jazz drumming basics for beginners.
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Improve your drum set independence, play Jazz Swing drum grooves and fills and trade fours. Learn the most important Jazz drumming basics for beginners.

Intro To Jazz Drumming Course

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This course lays the foundation of Jazz drumming basics for beginners.

You'll learn:
  • How to get strong Swing feel
  • Drumming grip techniques
  • Moeller technique
  • Easy way to read drum music
  • Jazz ride cymbal pattern
  • The Jazz drum beat
  • Hi-Hat technique
  • Bass drum control
  • Independence exercises
  • Jazz Drum Fills
  • Trading 4’s (Drum Soloing)
  • How to play everything together


By the end of the course, you'll have a really solid understanding of Jazz drumming and be able to swing and solo on your drum set!
Course Overview
Learn the Jazz drumming basics for beginners to play Jazz on the drums. This course will give you a solid drumming foundation for playing Jazz.

Improve your drum set independence, play Jazz Swing drum grooves and fills, trade fours and more!

  • Drum Lessons Video: 2.5 hours
  • Drum Lessons: 14
  • Lesson PDF Downloads: 8
  • Drum Practice Tracks: 7
  • Drum Lab Monthly Drum Class
  • Lessons In 9 Languages:
    English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 한국어, 日本語

Jazz Drumming Basics For Beginners

Intro to Jazz Drumming is a great Jazz drumming basics for beginners course to learn how to play the drums in a Jazz style. In these drum lessons you'll learn how to swing hard, improve your drummer independence skills and trade fours (drum solos) on the drums. 

Learning how to play Jazz drums is a gradual process. It's important to start with a tested, successful teaching method.  

You need beginner drummer lessons that teach you the essentials of Jazz drumming and how to play the drums with other musicians. My Intro course will do both of these things.

Online Drum Lessons

In these online drum lessons, you'll learn all the Jazz drumming basics for beginners that you need. This includes how to play with swing feel, important Jazz drum beats, drum fills, trading fours and more.  We'll also be practicing together with real musicians. 

These Jazz drumming basics for beginners lessons will get you up and swinging quickly with drum sticks.  To learn to drum with brushes I encourage you to also check out my Brushes Mastery Course.

This course contains 14 beginner drummer lessons for Jazz drumming (Over 2.5 hours of content), 8 drum lesson PDF's and 7 drum practice tracks.  

The great thing about online drum lessons, is you can move at your own speed.  Take as long as you need to learn from each video. 

Drum Lessons For Every Drummer

The Intro course drum lessons will give you a solid foundation in drumming and Jazz drumming. Even if you don't want to be a Jazz drummer, the skills you learn from this course will help you play any other style of music you want to play. 


Once you're done with this course, be sure to check out my Jazz Drum Comping Course to get your snare drum and bass drum accenting in creative ways. Enroll in the Drum Lessons Starter Course Pack to get the Intro, Comping and first 2 sections of my Brushes Mastery courses at a big discount. 

I'm looking forward to seeing you in the Intro drum lessons today!

PREVIEW THE COURSE

Here's the lesson on how to play the Jazz ride cymbal groove. Learn hand and foot technique, drum kit independence, trading 4's, drum fills and a lot more Jazz drumming basics for beginners when you enroll in the course. 
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Jazz Drums Total Lessons Pack

Learn Jazz drumming from your first beat to playing with a band! Get all my courses at a great price!

Includes the Intro To Jazz Drumming course!
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The Intro To Jazz Drumming Lessons

Essential lessons in Jazz drumming basics for beginners!
  1. READING MUSIC 09:55
  2. JAZZ DRUMMING GRIPS 12:39
  3. THE MOELLER TECHNIQUE 08:53
  4. THE QUARTER NOTE 10:53
  5. THE JAZZ ACCENT 11:13
  6. JAZZ RIDE CYMBAL 09:13
  7. JAZZ HI-HAT 14:41
  8. BASS DRUM TECHNIQUE 08:50
  9. BASIC JAZZ BEAT 14:53
  10. COORDINATION EXERCISES 19:50
  11. COORDINATION EXERCISES PRACTICE 05:27
  12. JAZZ DRUM FILLS 13:22
  13. PUTTING IT TOGETHER - TRADING FOURS 13:27
  14. KEEP SWINGING! 01:53

Course reviews

"Thank you VERY much! The lesson on hi-hat really helped me. It was gold and worth the price of the course alone."

Jonathan M.

“It was a great course!”

Smitty W.
“I’m enjoying the 'straight to the point’ style of the videos.”

Stephen J.
"The coordination exercises in the course are awesome... I'm taking my time to digest them properly but I can see right away the incredible benefits of practicing them. They truly constitute a great foundation for playing Jazz and any style of music!"

Miguel R.

Drum Lessons Starter Pack

Get this course at a nice discount! Join my beginner drummer lessons package to get you ready to play with other Jazz musicians. 
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Get swinging at a great price.

The Intro To Jazz Drumming Course

FOCUSED

This course saves you time and money by focusing on the most important Jazz drumming basics for beginners that you need to learn how to play Jazz drums.

By the end of these online drum lessons, you'll swing hard, trade fours (drum solos) and improve your drumming independence (coordination). 

  • Over 2.5 hours of online drum lessons
  • 14 drum lesson videos 
  • 7 drum practice tracks
  • 8 drum lesson PDF's.
  • Drum Lab Monthly Drum Class
  • Lessons In 9 Languages:
    English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 한국어, 日本語

AFFORDABLE

One-Time Payment. Lifetime Access to your course. Pay once, drum forever!

Pocket-friendly subscription plans also available through Groove Pass. 

PAINLESS

Learn with a relaxed, step-by-step method at your own pace.

You can also track your progress and see how much you have accomplished. Example below is from the Brushes Mastery Course.

Need a little more help with Jazz drumming basics for beginners?

Send me a direct message in the School and ask your questions in my monthly Drum Lab class. Just some of the perks for joining Jazz Drum School! 

Von Baron

Jazz drummer, educator, composer

About Your Teacher

Performing regularly on stage and in the recording studio for 35+ years, Von Baron is one of the busiest drummers in Japan. 

Playing with Stanley Jordan, Benny Golson, Eddie Henderson, Geoff Keezer and many others gave Von the opportunity to hone his Jazz drumming skills. 

It's with this real world experience, Von created this course to give you a solid foundation for your Jazz drumming.
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