Drum Beat Lessons - Virtual Drumming: try the thrill of the drumkit online

Virtual Drumming is a hub for drum beat lessons where you can play and learn through basic rythm exercises about shuffle beats. On Virtualdrumming.com you will become a pro in our drumkit online and enjoy the experience of showing off your left double bass pedal talent and discovering blues groove.

Basic Rythm Exercises and drum beat lessons

Virtual Drumming's drumkit online gives you the chance of practicing from your computer with basic rythm exercises for many genres. Here you will find information about blues groove and shuffle beats to make the most of our drum beat lessons.

Shuffle Beats and other tricks for the left double bass pedal and blues groove

Virtual Drumming is the most popular site for drum beat lessons and to have a good time with the drumkit online. Clear video instructions and indications on snare drum rudiment available at no cost. Give it a try and improve your skills on accents in music and Philly Joe Jones.

Play the drumkit online and master the left double bass pedal

Try Virtual Drumming's drumkit online, and practice your moves with great drum beat lessons and basic rythm exercises. Check right now the live concert simulation and show off your left double bass pedal skills!

Left Double Bass Pedal: discover all its secrets!

Our website Virtualdrumming.com is the best place to practice the left double bass pedal and get further details on the execution of shuffle beats, as well as the various levels of drum beat lessons. You can also vote for your favourite musician and ask for more basic rythm exercises.

The right place to learn about blues groove

At Virtual Drumming you come the closest to the experience of a live concert, performing with drum beat lessons and testing on a digital replica the shuffle beats. Grasp quickly and easily fundamental principles of the left double bass pedal and the blues groove.

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A fundamental blues drum rhythm, the Shuffle

Download Shuffle drum beats pdf The drum sheet of this lesson dedicated to Shuffle drum beats,
contains the main Shuffle rhythms, the traditional Rock and Blues rhythmic background.

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Shuffle basic drum beats - Drum lesson preview
	Introduction to the drum lesson: Shuffle drum beats The second part dealing with basic rhythms is about Shuffle. Originally a blues groove, the Shuffle rhythm is often used in other musical styles like Rock, Funk and Pop. Shuffle has a triplets going, and these patterns are composed by a 4/4 measure. In the drum sheet the staff is divided in two parts: the higher one is a combination of cymbal strokes and hi-hat strokes played by the foot, the lower one is dedicated to bass drum and snare drum.
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About VirtualDrumming.com

Virtual Drumming is an interactive drums method, with free online drum lessons, drum sheet music in pdf format, and virtual drums that you can play in real time. All the drum lessons are played in real time by the virtual drummer.
Just like a music teacher the virtual drummer plays at the desired speed the lesson on the score, making drum sheet music understable even to beginners. The drums method will be periodically updated with new drum lessons and drum sheet music.

This drum lesson dedicated to Shuffle beats is a part of the published basic drum lessons.
The basic drum lessons, the first part of this method for drums, deal with the right posture, which is the basic condition to develop speed, endurance and precision with your playing. The style and the role of drumming have evolved with time, but the basic drums technique hasn't changed much, and all the great drummers still build their own style from the same basis of musical theory.

Topics in the basic drum lessons and in the online drum lessons published drum sheet music are: Rudiments & Fundamentals, Coordinated independence, Basic drum beats, Snare drum studies, Drums grooves, and Songs drum parts, with transcriptions of songs and grooves by John Bonham, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland, Steve Gadd, Ian Paice, Jeff Porcaro.