Let's PLAY Drums
You want to learn how to play drums but don’t know where to start? Like most tasks in life, the first steps are often the most challenging. There are lots of way you can learn, therefore finding the right guide is important. With the abundance of available reference and method books in the market, the question then is which would be suitable for me? Come discover how Drumbooks can help you get started and continue this passion.
Learn From Pros
In our teaching career, we often use a variety of reference and method books to create a comprehensive teaching curriculum. Every book contains important topics and exercises that made it indispensable. Learning to plan and pace these materials is indeed very challenging as every student is different. Therefore, we started putting together our ideas to produce suitable books and resources for daily teaching.
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START WITH DRUMBOOKS
A MUST-HAVE GUIDE FOR EVERYONE, LEARNING ALL ABOUT MUSIC AND DRUMMING WITH PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS.
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WELL-PACED LEARNING
ONLY NECESSARY TOPICS AND RELEVANT EXERCISES ARE PUT TOGETHER ACCORDING TO EACH LEVEL’S REQUIREMENT. NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.
HOLISTIC APPROACH TO LEARNING AN TEACHING INTERACTION
COVERS VARIOUS SKILLS, PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT.
TEACH DRUMS TO ANYONE – ALL IN ONE BOOK.
DRUMBOOKS IS DESIGNED FOR DAILY TEACHING, EASY TO USE CONTENT AND PROVIDES YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO START TEACHING.
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COMPREHENSIVE LEARNING BOOK
THE ONLY DRUM BOOK YOU WILL EVER NEED COVERING WIDE RANGE OF ELEMENTS LIKE TECHNIQUES, COORDINATION, MUSIC THEORY, ASSESSMENTS, PERFORMANCE, IMPROVISATION, ETC.
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SYSTEMATIC AND PROGRESSIVE LEARNING STRUCTURE
ALL TOPICS ARE INTERRELATED TO ENSURE SMOOTH LEARNING TRANSITION AND PROGRESSIVE DIFFICULTY.
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COVERING EXAMINATION REQUIREMENTS
EASY TRANSITION TO ROCKSCHOOL DRUM EXAMINATIONS AS EACH BOOK COVERS SPECIFIC GRADE AND REQUIREMENT.
How To Play Drums
The Complete Guide For Beginners - Book One
You guessed it right, this book teaches you how to play drums. More importantly, how? Just like learning any language, this book will help you understand music as a language. In order to play to your favourite music, you will first need to understand how it works right? Then how about playing drums? Of course, that is the main goal of this book. It contains all you need to know to start playing the drums. This is suitable for newbies and those who have been playing for a while. Essentially, you will learn how to play music on the drums. Through book 1, you will develop essential skills like coordination, technique, reading and understanding music theory, aural, creativity and general knowledge about the instrument. This will give you the solid foundation you need to have the best possible drumming experience.
How To Play Drums
Exploring Musical Styles - Book Two
You have been drumming for a while and you’re looking for new excitement, taking it to the next level! Book 2 has it all for you to explore, different musical styles, 16th notes subdivision, accents and dynamics, hand techniques, independence, syncopation, flams, etc. In short, all that you learn will expand your drumming creativity and musical styles. You will have the ability to come up with variety of drum fills using combinations of different rhythms. Besides that, you can also play variety of grooves and apply them in different musical styles.
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Testimonial By The Pros
Our books is everything that you need to kickstart your journey to be a drummer. Start with your own pace and gives you the freedom to re-visit the pages at your own schedule and become a great drummer.
Rockie Siew,
Rockschool Consultant
A well thought-out book which focuses on making lessons relevant and interesting for students. Teachers will also find this book helpful as it comes with useful, balanced and systematic lesson plans which cover performance and musicianship. Impressive and highly commendable. "
Jacob Huang - Jacob Drumemory Academy (JDAC.) Taiwan
This book provides a clear path for students to learn and to play. The reason I suggest students to use this book is this is a music-oriented tool book. The book guides students step by step to play music and build students’ musicianship at their early stage of learning drums. Also, the book is easy to be used for children and adults."
Melvin Mark Clyde -
Rockschool Examiner
This is an excellent drum method book that will benefit learners of all ages. The lessons in this book are both systematic and comprehensive, ensuring a steady progression for the learner. Teachers will benefit as well from using the carefully planned exercises and examples spread throughout every section of the book. The backing tracks have been professionally produced along with exceptional graphics within the book. Whether you are learning to play the drums for leisure or exams, this book will give you an enjoyable learning experience."
Karen Wong - UCSI graduates, Bachelor of Contemporary Music (Hons)
Best method book that is tailored to Asians’ learning style!I love the pace of each module and it’s effective for every student with their unique personality and learning styles. Not to mention the tuneful backing tracks that make exercises fun and enjoyable to practice.Thank you so much for writing such an amazing book and it made my lesson so much more organised and livelier as I can focus on how to teach instead of what to teach".
Rachel Wan
Roland V-Drums Artist Malaysia
The lessons in this book are very comprehensive, easy to learn, and fun! It has lots of backing tracks to play with which makes learning so much easier and interesting. Those boring technical exercises are no longer boring! "
Our Books Will Helps You
All topics & exercises are designed in a way which creates a learning flow linked with one another.
A Study
Text & Workbook
Suitable For
All Ages
Best Used With
Pop Songs
Backing Tracks Based On
Contemporary Music
Drumbooks was founded in 2021 by Danny Chen & Edwin Boon, drum teachers who yearn for a more systematic method to teach drums effectively which became the building blocks of the Drumbooks revolution! With a focus on providing appropriate learning content for new learners, they release their first book in the ‘Learn to play drums’ series. The book gain popularity as it focusses on making drum lessons relevant and interesting for both the teachers and students.
Drumbooks
VISION
· We want to provide drum teachers with a system to approach teaching holistically.
· We strive to provide suitable resources to cater for casual learning as well as preparation for music examination.
MISSION
We know what we do well, and how we could do it better. Our mission is to innovate and design teaching and learning materials for drumming education.
"“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”