An important Jazz drum lessons for beginners teaching you what kind of drum gear to buy and how to set it up. This course will help you take the stress out these first important steps.

This course teaches you crucial Jazz drumming techniques for beginners to gain essential Jazz drumming skills that will form the foundation for your drumming future. 

Improve your drum set independence, play Jazz Swing drum grooves and fills, trade fours and more. These are some of the most important lessons you need to learn to play Jazz drums. 

The next series of Jazz drums lessons for beginners teaches you how to "comp" on the drums. The word "comp" is short for "accompanying." It's when we use our drums to communicate with the other musicians in the band. 

Brushes are as important as sticks for your Jazz drumming.  Brushes give us another texture, tone and color option that blends beautifully with ballads to Bossas. 

My Brushes Mastery Course takes you from Jazz drumming techniques for beginners, like how to hold your brushes and the different sounds you can make, all the way up to using them in dozens of styles of music, playing fills and soloing. 

You'll be able to use this course through advanced level drumming.  A super choice for your Jazz drumming now and down the road. 

The first two sections of the course are great for beginners and will give you all the Jazz drumming basics you need to get up and swinging your brushes in no time.  

You'll want to practice with music to hone your Jazz drumming skills. 

With over 120 drumless backing tracks, you'll be able to practice your new abilities and use the tracks for future course practicing too. 

In Jazz drumming we often get asked to play songs in 3/4 and 5/4 meters. When starting out, most of the songs we play are in 4/4 (4 beats to a measure) but it's good to be prepared for odd meters too.

Believe it or not, swinging your Funk beats is an important skill in Jazz drumming. Almost every gig I play involves this drumming feel at some point. 

In here, you'll learn how to take any Funk groove and swing it like Hip-Hop. Learn how to get this unique feel, 5 grooves for both hi-hat and ride cymbal and some cool drum fills. 

This course takes you into the minds of the great Jazz drummers. Learn over 100 tips for what pro Jazz drummers think and play in real music situations. 

One of the most difficult Jazz drumming skills is independence. Getting our hands and feet to play together in musical ways can be very challenging for most drummers.

In this course, I'll rewire your brain with 8 advanced Jazz drumming exercises.  These will open up your playing and give you the drumming independence of great Jazz drummers like Tony Williams, Elvin Jones and Brian Blade.  When you finish this course, you'll definitely be a different drummer. 

Afro-Cuban Latin drumming is not only exciting but also essential for your Jazz drumming. Whether, it's Mozambique, Mambo or Bembé, we get asked to play many Latin rhythms in Jazz.

In here, you'll learn the most important Latin grooves we use in Jazz and expand your drumming feel and independence. The grooves you'll learn are like advanced Jazz drumming exercises.  Each one will get your hands and feel moving in ways that will surprise and excite you. 

Since the 1960's Brazilian rhythms have been fused with Jazz music. Knowing Bossa Nova and Samba are critical for your success in Jazz drumming.

In this course, you'll learn Brazilian percussion, the 6 most important Bossa/Samba rhythms, dozens of drumming grooves and a lot more. 

Jazz drum fills are in a category all their own.  In Jazz we move beyond drum licks and into musical phrases. 

In here, you'll learn over 30 sticking patterns and how to use them in infinite ways across your drum kit.  You'll never run out of ideas for drum fills and solos ever again! 

Trading fours and eights, chorus solos, vamp solos, open solos and arranged solos are all very common in Jazz drumming.  Knowing how to play each of these is essential for your Jazz drumming. 

These intermediate to advanced Jazz drumming exercises for drum soloing, will teach you the 5 types of soloing and how to come up with endless ideas for what to play during your solos. This course goes well with the Jazz Drum Fills course. 

Playing fast Jazz Swing is not as difficult as you might think.  As you get better on the drums, you'll naturally start to play faster tempos. 

In here, you'll learn the technique I use for playing fast and relaxed at almost any speed. This course will help you break through the speed barrier with relative ease.

Max Roach and Buddy Rich could play the heck out the hi-hats. They played fills that really expanded the creative potential of this unique voice on the drum kit.

Using the advanced Jazz drumming exercises and patterns I teach in this course will make your hi-hat playing more musical.  You'll add dimension to your playing during bass solos, grooves and any other place you're working those hats.

In here, you'll learn how to play in "2", five cool fill patterns, hi-hat fanning and more. 

Reading drum charts (drum sheet music) or music lead sheets doesn't have to be intimidating. In fact, once you master this valuable drumming skill, you'll stop getting lost when playing with other musicians. 

In here, you'll learn the symbols and structure of drum charts and lead sheets and how to set up kicks like in big band drumming.  I also cover pick up notes, intros, endings, changing feels and more. 

This one will get you all the way through your intermediate level drumming.

Got questions about your courses and Jazz drumming? Join my free monthly Drum Lab live stream class. 

Just by purchasing any course or course pack, you are automatically enrolled into Drum Lab. Instructions for connecting to the class can be found on the Drum Lab course page.