Basic Music Theory For Drummers (Part 1) | DRUM LESSON - Note Value

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

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[@rokystuf]

"Yeah i play the drums..." "STRAWBERRY, STRAWBERRY, COCONUT, COCONUT"

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Yeah, it's called syllable-practice. Great for young people or total beginners :)

[@pierceschiller7100]

Perfectly explained, buddy! Easy to understand!

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Glad you think so, bud! 🔥

[@illnino1368]

You're the best, CJ! My favorite drum teacher online!

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Thank you so much for your kind words!😃🙌

[@RC32Smiths01]

Music Theory and the ability to sightreading can definitely elevate the professional status. It can only open up the opportunities possible!

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Absolutely! I know many drummers who don't know how to read music, because they grew up just playing the instrument. But it can definitely help you out in spontaneous situations 🔥

[@RC32Smiths01]

Absolutely! It's always great to take the time to learn concepts that will instantly boost one's versatility.@@ThatSwedishDrummer

[@jennieturner9496]

You just made my week!! I've actually never really learned music theory so this will definitely help. Thanks

[@drumkick2315]

But how did you learn drumming? Serious question.

[@jennieturner9496]

@@drumkick2315 my friend who plays drums started teaching me, and he taught me by just counting. Counting 1&2&3&4& on the hi-hat, playing the 1 and 3 on kick and 2 and 4 on snare. And then I've taken it from there

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Happy to help out!👌🔥

[@parabolicschism4201]

Simple but nice walkthrough!

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Thanks, buddy!

[@emmaderrie2387]

NICE!!😃 love your explanations!

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Thank you so much!!

[@lobbyrobby]

Pausing right away to say thanks. I wanna learn this stuff

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

You can do it!🔥🔥🔥

[@trevormcdaniels9709]

Great!! looking forward to the next one!

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Tomorrow! 😃

[@KelleyBroussardMackaig]

Pretty sure I've learned more in this 9 minute video than I have in the entire 9 months of drum lessons I've been taking every week. Thanks for the helpful information, really appreciate it!

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Glad to help! Cheers, bud!!

[@beedevil11]

Did you get a new teacher?

[@SerpentineSeiđr]

Same 😂 my teacher hasn't really taught me counting/theory, just a few basic beats and then straight into tackling songs, which I understand is to keep things engaging, but I could have done with knowing this stuff while trying to work through drum sheets for songs!

[@anubisbeck8321]

YEEES! Thank you so much for this! Great start for me to learn notes😃

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Glad you think so! 🔥

[@Practicalmusicministryskil4906]

Thank you for this! I just started sharing videos on my KZbin channel in the hopes of making music literacy accessible to all.

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

That’s awesome! Thanks for watching😃🙌

[@EddyA-qo3it]

Thanks for putting that comment I'm tryna learn musical literature so I can get into my school band now I'm subscribed to you

[@garywall1602]

Hey CJ, that was a great lesson it caused me to think this though even though it may not have anything to do with the lesson specifically but how do you know where one is when you're playing a song.

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

That’s a good question, and I’m actually gonna do a video in this series about time signatures and bars/measures. It all has to do about what time signature it is. As long as you count - you’ll be able to find your way back to beat 1.

[@drumwithethan]

hey, i'm looking into doing a similar thing and really enjoy how you present information! keep it up!

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Cheers!!

[@manasakb9382]

Thank you soo much cj ❤.

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

You're most welcome! :D

[@teacheryossi]

Incredible beginner video. Perfection

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Glad you like it!!

[@natskieflordeliza8610]

Amazing explanation and very easy to understand! I wonder if I can print those music sheets so that I can practice it without looking from the phone

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

All my channel members get access to the downloadable content from all my lesson-based videos 😃

[@Benjoe36]

This guy is super amazing, u are so good with the explaining 👍❤️❤️

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

I'm glad you think so! Thank you!

[@zhogber8542]

Helped a lot! Thanks🙏

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Cheers! :D

[@vanthawm2847]

Thank you sir

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Thank YOU for watching! Another music theory lesson is dropping today!

[@scrolldier]

Thanks from a middle aged newb. Keeping it simple!

[@WordzandRhythmz]

Same here!! 😂❤

[@WordzandRhythmz]

This was such a GREAT video! My son and I are working on a rap I wrote with just his percussion and I wanted to be able to communicate with him so we can just record some drumming for me to practice with. The thumbnail didn’t lie and I learned way more here than on THREE other videos I watched with how you incorporated all learning styles to teach it. THANK YOU! I understand and have NEVER read Percussion Clef sheet music EVER before today!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

I'm so happy to help out, you're welcome! 😃 I'm actually gonna make more videos like this (basic music theory lessons), so stay tuned for more!

[@drumkick2315]

These are the basics I learned from my teacher. Subdivisions and note values. And counting out lout (can be difficult), which is very important. You get used to it. I wonder how you can learn drums without it. Without a sheet, I would have been lost at the beginning. Hearing and dissecting a drum track is sometimes still difficult for me, depending on the recording.

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Everyone's different, ya' know! I know many of my classmates from Musicians Institute that couldn't read music at all, but they were PHENOMENAL drummers - because they grew up just playing the instrument. My first drum teacher didn't start with reading notes with me until like the 4th or 5th lesson. He made sure I got the coordination and counting down first for some grooves and basic fills, and then he said "OK, now you're gonna learn how these things look on paper!"

[@DelaihElijah]

Great work

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Thanks!

[@sarahlal3245]

Thanks 👍

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

🤟🔥

[@Helmut-HMRock-Meyer]

Vielen Dank!☝

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Bitte!

[@raston_]

Awesome

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

👊🔥

[@kishor591]

It's cool

[@Lele-memes]

Me who plays piano … 🥸🫢🧐 wait hold up these are the exact same notes as piano this will be easy😂… realising that I’m too coordinated for drums 😂

[@WordzandRhythmz]

😂😂😂

[@jefffox9429]

Good jod 🎉

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Thanks!!

[@mosuviou5675]

Great explanation, I know probably not right but I work in numbers so Right Hand - 1 Left Hand - 2 So 1 , 2 , 1 or 1,1,2 etc

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

That's fine, but it's not gonna work in the long run. Sometimes a fill or a rudiment might start with left hand-lead, so the number thing won't really work then. Better to just start practicing counting out loud while playing alternating sticking :)

[@alanarcher]

Well then ... After trying to understand notation for years, you made everything perfectly clear in minutes.

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Happy to hear that, bud!!

[@alanarcher]

@ThatSwedishDrummer I'm even happier my man

[@Groovemannn]

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[@Miguell25]

wait, but the 16th notes followed by 8th notes are spaced differently than the 8th notes followed by the 16th. If you were to count them the same, wouldn't it be 1 e a instead of 1 e &? Or am I wrong? to me 1 e & ( 16's followed by 8's) feels like triplets and is not spaced the same as 8's followed by 16's (1 & a)

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Since the "a" is the last sixteenth note, the following 8th note lands on the "&" of the beat. (An 8th note is worth two 16th notes) So two 16th + 8th note = 1 e & - One 8th note + two 16th notes = 1 - & a

[@Miguell25]

@ Thank you!

[@LINKISDEAD]

thanks man! i have used Yamaha when i was a teenager! im fuckin 35 now. maybe I'll bring her back out dude! I need new skins, i was broke af thats why i stopped lol

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Do it! Once a drummer, always a drummer 🤟🥁

[@LINKISDEAD]

@@ThatSwedishDrummer You know this!

[@Ahmedkhwamaa]

Can u give us name of your drum and snare drum and name your cymbales in video

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Here I play a Pearl Reference Series drum kit with a Benny Greb signature brass snare (by Sonor). The cymbals are Paiste

[@777kerokeropi4]

I don't get this and the time signature. I know time signature kinda like means How many(notes) Of what(notes But if you're playing 8th notes on a time signature of 4/4 then what does this mean now? Why is this so complicated to me bruh💀😭

[@777kerokeropi4]

I'm picking up something from this video but I still don't get the time signature stuff bruh

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Ok, so the time signature is 4/4. When reading time signatures, the numerator shows how many beats that are played per measure, and the denominator shows which note value you’re playing to (4 = quarter notes). Even if the time signature is 4/4, you can play different subdivisions as long as they fit within the quarter note measure. So for example, one quarter note can be divided into two 8th notes, two 8th notes can be divided into four 16th notes and so on. So even if the time signature is 4/4 (4 quarter notes), and is counted 1 2 3 4, you can also play eight 8th notes which is the exact same value within the measure, and now you can count it as 1&2&3&4&

[@777kerokeropi4]

@@ThatSwedishDrummer thanks for answering me man God bless man Jesus Loves you

[@cuervotambor]

😂strewberry works for coconut too😂

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

Sure, but if you say the rhythm of the word - most people don't pronounce strawberry as with the rhythm of two 16th's + one 8th. And this is just an example, you can use whatever words you'd like as long as they have the same amount of syllables in the rhythmic sense ^^

[@jamesfellender5393]

I just don’t the note stuff, like why is it called that? Etc it’s mind boggling to me, all I just do is play towards songs over and over and hear what the drummer is playing and just play along, seems to work for me, I just don’t know my rudiments, again, why are rudiments called rudiments? lol this is what I mean haha

[@ThatSwedishDrummer]

It's music theory, mate. One doesn't need it to be a good drummer, but if you know the system it can certainly open up more doors.

[@vivekawasthi4808]

Well have one thing in common.... Bed sheet

[@Clumsyofficiall]

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