How To Play Jazz Drum Solos

Learn how to play Jazz drum solos that are smooth, confident and musical.
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Learn how to play great Jazz drum solos with 5 types of soloing, 11 solo tools and 9 rhythm vocabulary builders!

Jazz Drum Soloing Course

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My Drum Soloing Course teaches you how to play Jazz drum solos that are smooth, creative, and musical.  Learn 11 key soloing tools like space, repetition, dynamics, accents, syncopation and more. Also learn my 9 drum solo idea builders to never run out of soloing ideas!

You’ll learn how to start and end solos with confidence, avoid getting lost, and develop endless soloing ideas through bebop phrasing, motives, rudiments, and borrowing from other musicians.

The course also covers the five main soloing approaches in Jazz—trading fours and eights, chorus solos, open solos, vamp solos, and arrangement solos—with practical exercises and real musical examples.

By the end, you’ll have the skills and confidence to craft expressive, dynamic, and engaging drum solos in any Jazz setting.

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Learn with a relaxed, step-by-step method at your own pace. Track your progress and see how much you have accomplished! Example below is from the Brushes Mastery Course.
Course Overview
This is the most in-depth course available for how to play Jazz drum solos. Learn to make music with your drum solos. Trade fours and eights, play chorus solos, vamp solos, arrangement solos and open solos.

This course teaches you how to stoke your own creativity rather than playing drum licks or copying what other drummers do. Play smooth, confident and musical Jazz drum solos like never before.

  • Drum Lessons Video: 5 hours
  • Drum Lessons: 32
  • Instructor Playing Examples: 13
  • Pages of PDF Lesson Downloads: 8
  • Drum Practice Tracks: 6
  • PDF Drum Charts (Drum Sheet Music): 5
  • Drum Solo Practice Videos: 2
  • Drum Lab Monthly Drum Class
  • Lessons In 10+ Languages:
    English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, Português, Suomi, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 한국어, 日本語, हिन्दी

PREVIEW THE COURSE

Here's the lesson on how to play Jazz drum solos during a vamp.  Learn 4 other important types of Jazz drum soloing, 11 drum solo tools, 9 ways to come up with ideas for your solos, how to never get lost in a solo and 20 practice phrases and practice tracks when you enroll in the course. 

It's the most complete course to help you learn how to play drum solos in Jazz. 

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Just wanted to drop you a short note as I’m part way thru this course but already you explain this better than any teacher I’ve had.

The section on “Never getting lost” is priceless, your explanation is clear, concise and easy to understand. Your comment that this is the part were panic starts to set in is spot on, but I feel much more confident following your advice, and am actively looking forward to trading and soloing with a new found confidence thanks to you.

Keep swinging Von, you’re a great communicator.
John R.
I proceeded with your solo-course and find it excellent and very practical, thank you!
Jukka S.
It's great!
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Jazz Drums Total Lessons Pack

Step-by-step online Jazz drumming lessons for all skill levels. Learn from beginner to playing in a band—50% off!

(Includes the Jazz Drum Soloing Course)
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The Lessons On How To Play Jazz Drum Solos

Learn the purpose of playing drum solos.

1. INTRODUCTION 02:54

Learn 11 tools you can use to make your solos smooth, creative and musical.

2. SPACE 03:12
3. REPETITION 02:28
4. DYNAMICS 02:44
5. ACCENTS 02:49
6. SYNCOPATION 03:00
7. CALL AND RESPONSE 01:58
8. BEBOP FEEL 04:39
9. ARTICULATION 07:46
10. PITCH 06:02
11. CONTRAST 06:29
12. MARKING THE SONG FORM 06:47

Learn the musical cues that will help you start and end your solos with confidence.

13. HOW TO NOT GET LOST 24:37

Learn 9 creative ways to come up with endless drum soloing ideas.

14. BEBOP PHRASING 05:41
15. MOTIVES 14:20
16. RUDIMENTS 11:54
17. GROOVING 07:06
18. THE SONG MELODY 12:15
19. OTHER SONG MELODIES 05:54
20. BORROWING FROM THE SOLOIST 07:09
21. BORROWING FROM THE RHYTHM SECTION 05:21
22. SINGING 09:52
23. FILLING IN BETWEEN THE NOTES 14:46

Learn the 5 primary ways for how to play Jazz drum solos.

24. TRADING FOURS AND EIGHTS 16:37
25. PRACTICING FOURS WITH MOTIVES 14:28
26. TRADING FOURS PRACTICE 10:03 
27. TRADING EIGHTS PRACTICE 09:51
28. FINISHING YOUR 4'S 09:40
29. TRADING FOURS WITH BRUSHES EXAMPLE 01:07
30. TRADING EIGHTS AND FOURS EXAMPLE 03:20
31. CHORUS SOLOS 10:56
32. BUILD A CHORUS SOLO 14:07
33. TRADING FOURS AND CHORUS SOLO EXAMPLE 02:17
34. TRADING EIGHTS AND SIXES EXAMPLE 03:20
35. CHORUS SOLO #2 EXAMPLE 01:06
36. CHORUS SOLO #3 EXAMPLE 01:22
37. CHORUS SOLO #4 EXAMPLE 01:52
38. CHORUS SOLO #5 EXAMPLE 01:07
39. OPEN SOLOS 18:49
40. OPEN SOLO EXAMPLE 03:42
41. OPEN SOLO #2 EXAMPLE 04:51
42. VAMP SOLOS 06:48
43. VAMP SOLO EXAMPLE 01:56
44. ARRANGEMENT SOLOS 05:00
45. ARRANGEMENT SOLO EXAMPLE #1 00:29
46. ARRANGEMENT SOLO EXAMPLE #2 00:59

Final thoughts and inspiration for how to play Jazz drum solos.

47. CONCLUSION 01:26

Need a little more help with how to play Jazz drum solos?

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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