🥁 Add Expression to Your Drumming With Beginner Accents (Beginner Lesson #15)

Accents are one of the easiest ways to add expression to your drumming.

In this beginner accents lesson, you’ll learn how to use simple accented notes to add shape, feel, and musicality to grooves and fills you can already play.

🎯 What you’ll learn:
• What accents actually are
• How accents change the feel of simple patterns
• How to control loud and soft note dynamics (volume)
• Beginner-friendly accent exercises
• How to develop simple ideas into exciting patterns

🕒 Chapters:
00:00 Start/Intro
00:12 Initial Demo - what we're aiming for!
00:36 Breaking it down with simple exercises (8th notes/quavers)
05:00 Developing further with more complex exercises (16th notes/semiquavers)
07:51 Next level - taking it around the kit
08:43 Applying the technique in PRACTISE + PERFORMANCE MODES
09:18 Outro

🥁 Drum lessons to support your learning: - Here's a link to our "Beginner Drum Lessons" playlist:    • Beginner Drum Lessons - DLD Drum School  

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1) How To Set Yourself Up At The Drums - 6 Point Checklist -    • 🥁 How to Set Yourself Up on the Drums: A Q...  
2) The 6 Golden Rules Of Drumming -    • 🥁 How To Quickly Become A Better Drummer. ...  
3) How To Hold and Control Your Sticks – The Grip -    • 🥁 Get a Grip (Literally)!! How To Hold You...  
4) Effective Practise WITHOUT A Drum Kit – Air Drumming -    • 🥁 How To Practise The Drums WITHOUT A Drum...  
5) How To Use Your MOUTH To Link Your Brain And Body -    • 🥁 How To Use Your MOUTH For Improved Drumm...  

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