Simple Ways to Progress Beyond the Snare Regardless of your desire as a drummer, whether it’s to play blistering solos or tasteful grooves, studying the rudiments will do much to help you take your craft to the next level. In this article our goal is not only to encourage you to study the rudiments as they were written, on the snare, but to explore them in a way that opens up a whole new world of opportunities behind the drumset. I have the privilege of teaching drumset to students ranging in age from five to forty-five. One question that I ask every one of them is, “How can you master multiple drums if you haven’t mastered one?” Before we ever start applying rudiments to the full kit, we take a good while to work them up on the snare drum. Two things that I would encourage you to be mindful […]

January 2014 Issue