drum learning sites

[Odd-Arne Oseberg]

Erskine has a couple of play-a-longs on Spotify.

Family Funk is a nice feel good one and if you can keep the time with the drumless version of The Cats that's pretty good workout, too. That's the biggest reason we practice more complicated rhythms on the drums, not necessarily to play them, but understand them enough so we're able to play along with them.

 

[Mikey713]

I signed up after lurking a while just to answer this question as I've tried all the big online lesson providers in the past few years.

Here are my brief opinions after trying Drum Ambition, Drumeo, Drum Beats Online and Mikes lessons. I consider myself a late beginner/early intermediate drummer.

Mikes Lessons - My favorite and the one I am currently a member of is Mikes Lessons. Mikes videos are extremely well produced and provides backing tracks for most lesson practice as well as the groove scribe tool which makes practicing very easy. I went ahead and started at the very beginning and even as an experienced drummer, I liked even the very basic lessons and felt I was getting something out of them. The main page can track your progress and lets me know what I'm practicing too much of and what I might be lagging behind in. Live drum shed sessions and lessons are happening multiple times every weekend it seems and Mike is easily accessible to discuss your Drum journey.

Drum Ambition - I used as this a very beginner and although it doesn't have the same tech features and online communities as some of the others, when I was just getting started this appealed to me. Simplicity was key and this site was easy to use as a true beginner. It's straight forward info and gives you one direction instead of bouncing around all over trying to find out what to practice next. As it is set up perfectly for beginners, you'll find you grow out of it quickly.

Drum Beats Online or DBO Academy - At first I was annoyed that I had to be put on a "wait list" to join online drum lessons and waited for another intake. Most likely a marketing ploy that I imagine chases away more people than it attracts. Once I got in, I liked almost everything about this page. There is a big community aspect to it and I do like how the journey and lessons are laid out. It's motivating and exciting. The lesson videos are great but the lacking aspect I found was the playback and supplied audio clips for practice were only at two different BPMs (a practice and the passing grade). You'll be using just the metronome for practice unless you're at those speeds. When learning something challenging I like being able to hear the groove the whole way through by journey up the BPMs. I also felt once into the intermediate lessons, there was a very steep learning curve and I could be stuck on a lesson for weeks or months at a time. Which is fine as I understand I was still learning but it took away a bit of the motivation. I then discovered the Groove Scribe in Mikes lessons which is exactly what I wanted for practicing.

Drumeo - **Be advised, it's been a few years since I've tried this one... I know this is the most popular and has the most content available by far. The production and lesson content was incredible. I didn't stay at Drumeo long because it was just too much for me. As I stated earlier, I like simplicity. The Drumeo platform of thousands of lessons, different lesson packages and a hundred different instructors just didn't do it for me.

I can provide more details on each if you have specific questions.

My favorite though is Mikes Lessons, by far. I will be settled in here for the rest of my Drumming journey.

 

[GretschedHive]

I signed up after lurking a while just to answer this question as I've tried all the big online lesson providers in the past few years.

Here are my brief opinions after trying Drum Ambition, Drumeo, Drum Beats Online and Mikes lessons. I consider myself a late beginner/early intermediate drummer.

Mikes Lessons - My favorite and the one I am currently a member of is Mikes Lessons. Mikes videos are extremely well produced and provides backing tracks for most lesson practice as well as the groove scribe tool which makes practicing very easy. I went ahead and started at the very beginning and even as an experienced drummer, I liked even the very basic lessons and felt I was getting something out of them. The main page can track your progress and lets me know what I'm practicing too much of and what I might be lagging behind in. Live drum shed sessions and lessons are happening multiple times every weekend it seems and Mike is easily accessible to discuss your Drum journey.

Drum Ambition - I used as this a very beginner and although it doesn't have the same tech features and online communities as some of the others, when I was just getting started this appealed to me. Simplicity was key and this site was easy to use as a true beginner. It's straight forward info and gives you one direction instead of bouncing around all over trying to find out what to practice next. As it is set up perfectly for beginners, you'll find you grow out of it quickly.

Drum Beats Online or DBO Academy - At first I was annoyed that I had to be put on a "wait list" to join online drum lessons and waited for another intake. Most likely a marketing ploy that I imagine chases away more people than it attracts. Once I got in, I liked almost everything about this page. There is a big community aspect to it and I do like how the journey and lessons are laid out. It's motivating and exciting. The lesson videos are great but the lacking aspect I found was the playback and supplied audio clips for practice were only at two different BPMs (a practice and the passing grade). You'll be using just the metronome for practice unless you're at those speeds. When learning something challenging I like being able to hear the groove the whole way through by journey up the BPMs. I also felt once into the intermediate lessons, there was a very steep learning curve and I could be stuck on a lesson for weeks or months at a time. Which is fine as I understand I was still learning but it took away a bit of the motivation. I then discovered the Groove Scribe in Mikes lessons which is exactly what I wanted for practicing.

Drumeo - **Be advised, it's been a few years since I've tried this one... I know this is the most popular and has the most content available by far. The production and lesson content was incredible. I didn't stay at Drumeo long because it was just too much for me. As I stated earlier, I like simplicity. The Drumeo platform of thousands of lessons, different lesson packages and a hundred different instructors just didn't do it for me.

I can provide more details on each if you have specific questions.

My favorite though is Mikes Lessons, by far. I will be settled in here for the rest of my Drumming journey.

This was really interesting and helpful. Thanks for posting.

 

[Square]

I signed up after lurking a while just to answer this question as I've tried all the big online lesson providers in the past few years.

Here are my brief opinions after trying Drum Ambition, Drumeo, Drum Beats Online and Mikes lessons. I consider myself a late beginner/early intermediate drummer.

Mikes Lessons - My favorite and the one I am currently a member of is Mikes Lessons. Mikes videos are extremely well produced and provides backing tracks for most lesson practice as well as the groove scribe tool which makes practicing very easy. I went ahead and started at the very beginning and even as an experienced drummer, I liked even the very basic lessons and felt I was getting something out of them. The main page can track your progress and lets me know what I'm practicing too much of and what I might be lagging behind in. Live drum shed sessions and lessons are happening multiple times every weekend it seems and Mike is easily accessible to discuss your Drum journey.

Drum Ambition - I used as this a very beginner and although it doesn't have the same tech features and online communities as some of the others, when I was just getting started this appealed to me. Simplicity was key and this site was easy to use as a true beginner. It's straight forward info and gives you one direction instead of bouncing around all over trying to find out what to practice next. As it is set up perfectly for beginners, you'll find you grow out of it quickly.

Drum Beats Online or DBO Academy - At first I was annoyed that I had to be put on a "wait list" to join online drum lessons and waited for another intake. Most likely a marketing ploy that I imagine chases away more people than it attracts. Once I got in, I liked almost everything about this page. There is a big community aspect to it and I do like how the journey and lessons are laid out. It's motivating and exciting. The lesson videos are great but the lacking aspect I found was the playback and supplied audio clips for practice were only at two different BPMs (a practice and the passing grade). You'll be using just the metronome for practice unless you're at those speeds. When learning something challenging I like being able to hear the groove the whole way through by journey up the BPMs. I also felt once into the intermediate lessons, there was a very steep learning curve and I could be stuck on a lesson for weeks or months at a time. Which is fine as I understand I was still learning but it took away a bit of the motivation. I then discovered the Groove Scribe in Mikes lessons which is exactly what I wanted for practicing.

Drumeo - **Be advised, it's been a few years since I've tried this one... I know this is the most popular and has the most content available by far. The production and lesson content was incredible. I didn't stay at Drumeo long because it was just too much for me. As I stated earlier, I like simplicity. The Drumeo platform of thousands of lessons, different lesson packages and a hundred different instructors just didn't do it for me.

I can provide more details on each if you have specific questions.

My favorite though is Mikes Lessons, by far. I will be settled in here for the rest of my Drumming journey.

Nice!

Thanx for joining the forum to help out. Welcome. Glad to have you. Stick around.

 

[Bewildered Beast]

Soon after I got a kit I signed up to Drumeo for a year. There is a structured course which I found very useful and that what what I focused on. I think it served me well.

After a year I figured I had the basics sorted and since then I've just been learning out of books (Breakbeat Bible, Future Sounds, Syncopation etc). While I found Drumeo good for a starter, it seemed to me that, strange as this may sound, there was too much for me there. Nowadays I can spend hours just trying to master a new groove or exercise out of a book, and I don't need a subscription to do that. In fact the less distraction the better.

And there's always youtube for random ideas etc. I like Mike Barnes' channel for example.

So, I'd recommend joining Drumeo, working through their course, and downloading the PDFs you are interested in learning while you're a member (they have LOADS of songs transcribed) and then use them later.