20 Beginner Drum Beats | Go From 'No' To 'Pro'

_______________ Top 20 MUST KNOW Easy Beginner Drum Beats

As a beginner drummer, I was always looking for beginner drum beats that I could learn quickly and that would allow me to drum along to my favorite beginner songs. This drum lesson breaks out 20 easy drum beats that will have you drumming to songs in no time. 20 useful, easy, beginner drum beats. Now THAT'S a quick win on the drums.

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Cymbal Setup From Left To Right:

All Zildjian

14" Zildjian Special Dry HiHat

18" Zildjian K Sweet Crash Cymbal

23" Zildjian K Special Dry Ride Cymbal

19" Zildjian Kerope

Drums:
Tama Starclassic Bubinga with Tiger Wood finish
Snare is Tama Starphonic Brass

Sticks:
Vic Firth 5A

Drumheads:
Aquarian
Classic Clear on toms and snare resonant
Response 2 clear on toms batter
Texture Coated on snare batter
Regularor (Ebony) on kick resonant
Super Kick 10 on kick batter

Alclair In Ear Monitors

Earthworks Microphones

[StephenTaylorDrums]

As a beginner drummer, I was always looking for drum beats that I could learn quickly and that would allow me to drum along to my favorite songs. This drum lesson is just that. It has 20 REALLY useful, easy, beginner drum beats.


Leave a comment below and let me know your thoughts!

[boynamedlen]

1:23 Weezer - Beverly Hills
2:44 Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
4:01 Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
5:00 The Chain Smokers - Closer
6:44 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
7:56 Post Malone - Wow
9:05 Miranda Lambert - Kerosene
9:59 The Trammps - Disco Inferno
11:04 The White Stripes - Hardest Button to Button
12:06 The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
13:47 Pharrell Williams - Happy
15:05 Coldplay - Clocks
16:08 Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love
17:14 Rolling Stones - Satisfaction
18:05 Flo Rida - Low
19:17 Ed Sheeran - Perfect
20:11 U2 - Vertigo
21:29 Muse - Starlight
22:55 Blondie - Heart of Glass
24:32 Santana - Smooth

[jamesmoss]

Thank you so much for your videos Stephen. I'm a 44 year old lawyer, I've played the piano all my life but always wanted to play the drums. I started drum lessons in June (with my 7 year old son) and bought a full set of acoustic drums on the weekend. I am hooked on your videos - it's just so good to follow your lead and play beats that sounds so damn good! Thanks again.

[astrosquirrel]

I've been playing for 20 years and I still found this video helpful. Going back to the basics is never a bad thing!

[siennatiddy]

beat #1: Beverly hills by weezer 1:37
beat #2: free falling by tom petty 2:56
beat #3: are you gonna go my way by lenny kravitz 4:09
beat #4: closer by the chainsmokers 5:09
beat #5: dreams by fleetwood mac 7:05
beat #6: wow by post malone 8:06

[basslife]

Thank you for these amazing teaching videos. I've always wanted to play drums but never had a kit. Today I traded 2 dirtbikes for a ddrum double bass 10 piece drum set with 12 cymbals. I know its way to much drum for a beginner but I couldn't pass it up. Just finished figuring out how to set it up and now I'm on your channel doing what I've dreamed about for years. Learning to play. I've gone over this video 4 times and have many times to go. I can't wait to learn some songs. This is more fun than I ever imagined. Thank you again

[crossed]

Thanks for including the sheet music for these beats, and the Notation Table provided at the top of the sheet!

I grew up playing trumpet/baritone in high school/college, but always wanted to play the drums. That was twenty years ago now, but both my boys ( 4 and 11 yrs old) have shown interest in playing the drums recently. I just picked up a new Roland TD-1DMK set, and these lessons are perfect for getting them started playing simple beats to get them exited to learn more! Thanks so much for your time and effort!

[mcsequoia]

Great video that demonstrates how mastering the basics of 4/4 and playing simple grooves well opens the door to playing so much music. It's fair to say that each of these 20 drum beats are used in at least another 10 songs. That's 200 songs one could play.

Then if you consider how many grooves are either just slight variations of these grooves and one could play a total of 500 songs possibly,

It's too easy to get caught up in all the sick grooves, cool chops, epic fills, super-human hand speed and somehow still not be able to just play some good music with other people.

[peterjames]

hi stephen Im 57, just bought myself a TD50X and bashing arouind on that and having great fun, your vid has helped me a lot mate, much appeciated

[gypsysprinkle]

Crazy helpful and super easy to follow. As a trained dancer the counts make perfect sense. Thank you!!

[Heatherhigleydrums]

Couple other recommendations for simple drum songs for drilling a groove : Lenny Kravitz - american woman / Again / Low / NYC (offbeat hat) / I'll be there, beegees- stayin' alive, and a bonus challenge one for trying e on bass Nathan East - Daft Funk,

[johnhunter]

my new ludwig breakbeats kit comes in next week! can’t wait to get back to playing after all these years and start from scratch! gonna be coming back to this videos a lot!!!

[holeesheet]

Love it. Thanks so much. I know all these, of course, but a little refresher never hurts!!!

[mikehabursky]

Always great useful content, thanks for all you do.

[estherras]

Thank you! Keeps your brain, hands and feed working!

[lobbyrobby]

Last night I decided to become a drummer and I was tapping on a pizza box and a laundry basket with spoons. Today I have a drum set in my house

[garagemusokd]

Another cool groove to teach beginners is "Footloose' - Kenny Loggins. It's a 4 bar sequence of 4 beginners beats.

[tomjones]

Thank you for posting this!! Just exactly what I need right now.

[nicw]

40yrs old and new drummer very nice thx much

[nathanaelfeasel]

I find it really fun as an at least semi-experienced drummer who has begun teaching to look back and see what kind of stuff I used to play when I started about 7 or 8 years ago, nowadays it's all blast beats and shit but its fun to get a blast from the past, but ya never know sometimes i pick something up that I've never seen or done before lol. I love your stuff btw ur a great drummer whos very fun to watch.