Grade 3 Prep Sheets
Here you can download the sheets for the Grades 3 & 4 exams. Grade 3 and 4 Sheets
Snare Drum Exercises
Here are sheets with exercises designed to improve your reading as well as give you ideas for phrases or fills. Snare Drum Exercises
Lonestar – I’m Already There
I’m Already There written and performed by Lonestar. Released in March 2001, this became a a very popular song on the radio after the September 11th attacks in the USA. As far as the chart goes, there are no surprises and a slow tempo! Plenty of flams to fatten out the fills, and slow syncopated …
Marillion – Sugar Mice
Released in 1987, just two years after the smash hits Kayleigh and Lavender, Sugar Mice reached number 22 in the UK music charts. The album this was taken from – Clutching at Straws – charted higher than the single at number 2 on the album chart, missing out on the top spot to Whitney Houston’s …
Dream Theatre – A Change of Seasons Pt 1
A Change of Season was recorded at the same time as the Awake album but then shelved as it was decided to not include it on that album. Fast forward a couple of years and the song was rerecorded and released as an EP with an additional four live tracks of covers.. Being the only original …
The Hellion & Electric Eye
The first two tracks from the massive album, Screaming for Vengeance released in June 1982. The Hellion (the first track on the album) is a slow, heavy Introduction to the album. The drum part is simple and locks in powerfully with the twin guitar assault of KK Downing and Glenn Tipton. Finishing with a Crash …
My Hero – Foo Fighters
How about a great song that has not one, but TWO drum tracks on it? Yep, thats what this song has here! Thankfully the drum parts are well split. In order to play the first drum kit part, you’ll need to be able to play sixteenth notes on the kick at 77bpm. Thats the most …
Am I Evil? – Diamond Head
Most people seem to know that this was covered by Metallica as a B-side to the single Creeping Death released in 1984, but people quickly forget that this was a track taken form the very first Diamond Head album! Am I Evil was originally written and performed by the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy …
God of Thunder – Kiss
With a drum part recorded in an elevator shaft at 3am, God of Thunder is certainly an original! Taken from the massive album Destroyer which spawned four singles, God of Thunder was written by Paul Stanley (The Star Child) and sung by Gene Simmons (The Demon). Live, this song contains a lot of the theatrics …