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Learn Jazz drumming for beginners the right way. In this beginner-friendly course, learn drum set independence, Jazz Swing drum grooves, drum fills, trading fours drum solos and more! Get a solid foundation for playing Jazz!
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Comp on the drums with confidence. Learn BeBop and Modern comping styles, independence exercises, groove variations, comping with drum fills and more! Play musically in real Jazz music settings!
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Master how to play drums with brushes from basics to pro-level. Learn swing patterns, Latin grooves, soloing, drum fills, and more! Plus dozens of play-along tracks to refine your feel. Play brushes like a true Jazz drummer!
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Solo with creativity and control. Learn 11 key soloing tools, 9 idea builders, 5 types of solos, how to never get lost and more! Play exciting, dynamic Jazz drum solos every time!
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Create smooth and musical Jazz drum fills. Learn 30+ sticking patterns, types of drum fills, creative variations and more! Play expressive, dynamic drum fills that fit naturally into any Jazz groove!
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Bring authentic Latin rhythms to your Jazz drumming. Learn Mambo, Rumba, Cha-Cha-Cha, Songo, Mozambique, how to choose the clave, drum fills and more! Groove naturally in any Latin Jazz setting!
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Master Brazilian Jazz drumming Bossa Nova, Samba, and Baião with authentic touch and feel. Learn the essential rhythms, feel, percussion, hand technique, drum beats and more! Play real Brazilian Jazz drums!
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Gain freedom behind the drum set! Learn 8 progressive Jazz independence systems to build coordination, control, and timing. Comp and play groove fills with the fluidity of Elvin Jones, Tony Williams and Brian Blade!
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Swing with confidence at any tempo! Play fast Jazz on the drums with powerful exercises. Learn hand technique, ride patterns, speed drills, independence and more! Build control, speed, and endurance. Play any tempo effortlessly!
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Add smooth, expressive hi-hat fills to your Jazz drumming. Learn 5 unique fill patterns, techniques like fanning and underhand, seamless transitions and more! Play with the depth, texture, and flow of Buddy Rich and Max Roach!
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Play great in any Jazz group. Learn over 100 first-call pro drummer secrets, including ride technique, comping, brushwork, trading fours, soloing and more! Drum in a band with more feel, creativity, and confidence!
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Mix the swing of Jazz with the groove of Funk! Learn how to shape your feel, craft creative hi-hat and ride grooves, add dynamic fills and more! Make your Jazz-Funk and Hip-Hop drumming smooth and exciting!
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Play and sound your best behind the drums with the right drum gear and pro Jazz drum setup tips. Learn about sticks, brushes, drums, tuning, assembling your kit and more! Avoid setup mistakes. Set up perfectly the first time!
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Read Jazz drum charts with ease! Learn to navigate music road maps, set up the band, play feel changes, mark the song form and more! Follow music effortlessly and play new songs faster in any setting!
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Expand your Jazz drumming beyond 4/4. Learn to groove and fill naturally in 3/4 and 5/4—like Dave Brubeck’s Take Five. Play odd meters with smooth coordination, flowing musicality and an easy, relaxed feel!
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What students say about Jazz Drum School
Your courses are really instructive and I appreciate many of your ideas and good suggestions which are helpful in Jazz drumming. Besides, it is much fun!
As you probably know, it’s easy to hit a slump in your playing and feel like you’re not making any progress. Your courses have pulled me out of a slump. I finally feel like I’m getting better again!
5 Reasons Beginner Drummers Should Learn Jazz Drums
Read this informative article for drummers of all styles. Learn how Jazz drumming will make it easy to drum in any style of music.
Jazz drumming is for every drummer
Jazz drumming skills can make any drummer from any genre more successful.
For years, I have been talking about the benefits of Jazz drumming. I am a Jazz drummer but I also play at least a dozen other styles of music on a regular basis.
Learning Jazz drumming has opened countless doors and made me 100's of thousands of dollars over the years. If I didn't know Jazz drumming, my music career would be very limited both creatively and financially.
I want you also to have many opportunities to enjoy playing drums and even make money while you do it. I've created courses here that will guide you step-by-step to learn with Jazz drumming lessons online.
When you're done, you'll have so much more drumming freedom to really play what you want to play and make great music with other musicians.
Learning Jazz drumming has opened countless doors and made me 100's of thousands of dollars over the years. If I didn't know Jazz drumming, my music career would be very limited both creatively and financially.
I want you also to have many opportunities to enjoy playing drums and even make money while you do it. I've created courses here that will guide you step-by-step to learn with Jazz drumming lessons online.
When you're done, you'll have so much more drumming freedom to really play what you want to play and make great music with other musicians.
Is Jazz Drumming Hard?
Jazz drumming is challenging but fun, blending multiple styles like Latin, Funk, and Hip-Hop, and the skills you learn here will improve your playing in any genre.
My mission is to make Jazz drumming easy to learn for every drummer. Jazz drumming is more challenging than most other styles but it's also incredibly fun to play. One of the reasons it's challenging is that there are many Jazz drumming styles and genres that we use as drummers on a regular basis.
Jazz drumming has actually become World music. It incorporates Latin, Brazilian, Funk, Hip-Hop, Soul, Pop, Caribbean and many other styles into Jazz.
For this reason, all of the new drumming skills you learn here at Jazz Drum School will also help you play better in whatever style you play the most.
Drum Lessons That Work
You’ll learn Jazz drumming techniques and how to play well with others, using tracks from top musicians to practice in real-world music scenarios.
Of course, you'll learn the hand patterns, drum fills and drum grooves we use in Jazz drumming but I don't stop there. My drum lessons also teach you how to play great with other musicians.
My drum lessons use audio and video tracks of top Jazz musicians to teach new drumming skills and practice those skills. This gives you the opportunity to use the things you learn, in the real world of music.
Playing great with other musicians is what it's all about.
How to play Jazz on drums with Jazz drumming lessons online
Jazz drumming is more complex than most other styles and you need drum lessons online that teach you what you really need to know.
There is a ton information out there about Jazz drumming. Countless blog posts (including my own drumming blog) and videos are available at your fingertips.
With all of this information, it should be easy to get better at Jazz drumming, yes? Well, not really.
I estimate that about 50-60% of the Jazz drumming lessons online are not actually helpful for you to play Jazz drums skillfully.
What you need are drum lessons that walk you step-by-step through the core concepts and exercises that will grow your Jazz drumming skills quickly and consistently. My courses here at Jazz Drum School do exactly that.
I take even the most complicated parts of Jazz drumming and make them easy to understand. My goal after-all is for you to really learn how to play Jazz on drums and unlock your drumming imagination.
I'll help take the mystery out of Jazz drumming and make it easier for you to integrate Jazz with your current playing ability.
If you're just starting out, I recommend the Intro To Jazz Drumming course. Learn some essential Jazz drum beats, drum fills and concepts. You'll get a solid foundation for your Jazz drumming.
After completing the Intro course, my Jazz Drum Comping Course will take your drumming to a higher level. "Comping" is short for accompanying and often uses rhythmic accents between the snare drum and bass drum while the ride cymbal and hi-hat maintain a constant groove.
The Intro and Comping courses also have drum practice backing tracks to get you up and swinging while you practice with real musicians.
The Intro and Comping courses are also available in the Beginner Jazz Drums Lessons Complete Course Pack at a big discount.
After completing the Intro and Comping courses, my Jazz Drum Soloing and Jazz Drum Fills Courses will get you moving smoothly and confidently around the drums.
Drum brushes are another art form within Jazz drumming. To master the art of playing drums with brushes, I also recommend my Brushes Mastery Course.
Finally, to take your drumming ability to incredible heights, you will really enjoy my Jazz Drum Independence Patterns, Brazilian Drumming and Afro-Cuban Drumming Courses.
With all of this information, it should be easy to get better at Jazz drumming, yes? Well, not really.
I estimate that about 50-60% of the Jazz drumming lessons online are not actually helpful for you to play Jazz drums skillfully.
What you need are drum lessons that walk you step-by-step through the core concepts and exercises that will grow your Jazz drumming skills quickly and consistently. My courses here at Jazz Drum School do exactly that.
I take even the most complicated parts of Jazz drumming and make them easy to understand. My goal after-all is for you to really learn how to play Jazz on drums and unlock your drumming imagination.
I'll help take the mystery out of Jazz drumming and make it easier for you to integrate Jazz with your current playing ability.
If you're just starting out, I recommend the Intro To Jazz Drumming course. Learn some essential Jazz drum beats, drum fills and concepts. You'll get a solid foundation for your Jazz drumming.
After completing the Intro course, my Jazz Drum Comping Course will take your drumming to a higher level. "Comping" is short for accompanying and often uses rhythmic accents between the snare drum and bass drum while the ride cymbal and hi-hat maintain a constant groove.
The Intro and Comping courses also have drum practice backing tracks to get you up and swinging while you practice with real musicians.
The Intro and Comping courses are also available in the Beginner Jazz Drums Lessons Complete Course Pack at a big discount.
After completing the Intro and Comping courses, my Jazz Drum Soloing and Jazz Drum Fills Courses will get you moving smoothly and confidently around the drums.
Drum brushes are another art form within Jazz drumming. To master the art of playing drums with brushes, I also recommend my Brushes Mastery Course.
Finally, to take your drumming ability to incredible heights, you will really enjoy my Jazz Drum Independence Patterns, Brazilian Drumming and Afro-Cuban Drumming Courses.
Join Drummers From Around The World
My drum lessons motivate you to reach your goals, with students worldwide here at Jazz Drum School.
My online drum lessons will inspire and motivate you to pursue excellence on the drums. Through drumming with brushes, drum sticks and even your hands, let's achieve your drumming goals together.
Join drummers in Europe, Australia, Asia, North America and South America who are already learning the many Jazz drumming styles and genres here at the School. Enroll in one of my courses today!
Why Jazz drumming lessons online?
The World has changed and so has the way we learn drums.
Back when I was starting out, I always had in-person drum lessons. They were beneficial of course, but had some limitations.
One of the biggest limitations was that I had to remember everything that happened in my lesson and had no way of replaying the lesson to review things I may have forgotten.
drum lessons online drum lessons are the way of the future.
You can now learn things at your own pace, in the comfort of your home and you can review your lessons as many times as you like.
One of the biggest limitations was that I had to remember everything that happened in my lesson and had no way of replaying the lesson to review things I may have forgotten.
drum lessons online drum lessons are the way of the future.
You can now learn things at your own pace, in the comfort of your home and you can review your lessons as many times as you like.
Drumming with brushes
Drumming with brushes is often the weakest part of drummer's playing.
Drum brushes were used in drumming for the first time about 100 years ago. Since that time, the way drum brushes are used, has evolved.
In the 21st Century, drum brushes playing has seen a resurgence in popularity and use across many genres of music.
Hip-hop, Latin, R&B and Funk are some the styles in which we hear drummers using brushes today. The broad spectrum of texture and color that brushes provide also makes them ideal for sampling, looping and other music production.
In my Brushes Mastery Course here at Jazz Drum School, you can learn smooth, impressive and useful drum brushes patterns and drum fills for a wide variety of drumming styles.
Drumming with brushes is particularly important in playing Jazz music. In the course, I teach them in a Jazz drumming context. You will quickly see though, how you can use my patterns, fills and concepts in whatever styles of drumming you play.
Drumming with drum sticks and drum brushes are equally important in Jazz drumming and beyond. The Brushes Mastery Course Jazz drumming drumming lessons online will greatly strengthen your brushing ability.
In the 21st Century, drum brushes playing has seen a resurgence in popularity and use across many genres of music.
Hip-hop, Latin, R&B and Funk are some the styles in which we hear drummers using brushes today. The broad spectrum of texture and color that brushes provide also makes them ideal for sampling, looping and other music production.
In my Brushes Mastery Course here at Jazz Drum School, you can learn smooth, impressive and useful drum brushes patterns and drum fills for a wide variety of drumming styles.
Drumming with brushes is particularly important in playing Jazz music. In the course, I teach them in a Jazz drumming context. You will quickly see though, how you can use my patterns, fills and concepts in whatever styles of drumming you play.
Drumming with drum sticks and drum brushes are equally important in Jazz drumming and beyond. The Brushes Mastery Course Jazz drumming drumming lessons online will greatly strengthen your brushing ability.
Jazz drumming lessons online for beginners
Drum lessons online are one of the best ways to improve your drumming.
My Jazz drumming lessons online teach you how to play many styles of music we often play at Jazz gigs. They also teach you about song structure and form as well as how to read Jazz drums sheet music.
The right Jazz drumming lessons will give you all of the skills you need to succeed at drumming personally and professionally. One of the things most Jazz drumming lessons don't cover however, is how to connect your drumming to the rest of the band.
I believe that 50% of your Jazz drumming lessons should cover the mechanics of playing Jazz drums. The other 50% should be how you connect your playing to the music and other musicians' playing.
This 50/50 approach is the bedrock for all of my courses at Jazz Drum School. With my Jazz drumming lessons online for beginners to advanced drum students, you'll gain confidence using your new Jazz drumming skills inside and outside of the practice room.
The right Jazz drumming lessons will give you all of the skills you need to succeed at drumming personally and professionally. One of the things most Jazz drumming lessons don't cover however, is how to connect your drumming to the rest of the band.
I believe that 50% of your Jazz drumming lessons should cover the mechanics of playing Jazz drums. The other 50% should be how you connect your playing to the music and other musicians' playing.
This 50/50 approach is the bedrock for all of my courses at Jazz Drum School. With my Jazz drumming lessons online for beginners to advanced drum students, you'll gain confidence using your new Jazz drumming skills inside and outside of the practice room.
Instructor: Von Baron
Thank you for visiting Jazz Drum School!
During my 35+ years of Jazz drumming, I've performed with Jazz legends like Benny Golson, Stanley Jordan, Eddie Henderson and Geoff Keezer. These experiences really strengthened my Jazz drumming abilities.
They also helped me figure out what's most important for you to learn in Jazz drumming. At Jazz Drum School, I cut through the information overload you see on the Internet. We get straight to the heart of what you need to learn to quickly get better at playing Jazz.
Teaching 10,000 + drum lessons over the years has also helped me develop a teaching style that is relaxed and easy-to-follow.
I'm grateful to the drummers in North America, Europe, Australia, South America and Asia who are improving their drumming at Jazz Drum School. Thank you too for checking out my Jazz drumming courses today!
While you're here, be sure to join my email list below so you know when new courses are launched.
Be well and keep swingin' my friend! -Von
During my 35+ years of Jazz drumming, I've performed with Jazz legends like Benny Golson, Stanley Jordan, Eddie Henderson and Geoff Keezer. These experiences really strengthened my Jazz drumming abilities.
They also helped me figure out what's most important for you to learn in Jazz drumming. At Jazz Drum School, I cut through the information overload you see on the Internet. We get straight to the heart of what you need to learn to quickly get better at playing Jazz.
Teaching 10,000 + drum lessons over the years has also helped me develop a teaching style that is relaxed and easy-to-follow.
I'm grateful to the drummers in North America, Europe, Australia, South America and Asia who are improving their drumming at Jazz Drum School. Thank you too for checking out my Jazz drumming courses today!
While you're here, be sure to join my email list below so you know when new courses are launched.
Be well and keep swingin' my friend! -Von
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