Learn to Read Drum Music – Part 8 – Imaginary Bar Lines

Drummers! Thanks once again for checking out this Learn to Read Drum Music Series. We’ve explored a lot from the basics of whole notes all the way to 16th notes and beyond, dotted notes, time signatures, and ties.

In this post, we will be taking a look at a device that is used to make reading and writing as simple as possible: Imaginary Bar Lines.

Learn to Read Drum Music – Part 7 – Tied Notes

Hey all you drummers! So glad you’ve come back for yet another lesson from my How to Read Drum Music series. This topic has builds upon the last post about dotted notes, so if you haven’t checked that out yet, do yourself a favor and catch up.

In this section we will be adding on to what we’ve learned about note additions, and look at Tied Notes. Tied notes are similar to dots, but have a few extra applications.

Learn to Read Drum Music – Part 6 – Dotted Notes Explained

What’s up Drummers! We’ve made it to part 6 of my How to Read Drum Music series. You have done very well up to this point. We have covered a lot of topics so far, so if you’re here out of order, click the links to see what you’ve missed:

This post will take us back to looking at notes – more correctly, an addition to notes: The Dot

Learn to Read Drum Music – Part 4 – 16th Note Groupings

Howdy drummers! Welcome to Part 4 of my Learn to Read Drum Music series. This section is a continuation on Part 3, so click the link to go there, or back even further if you’re a beginner:

If you recall from part 3, we introduced the Sixteenth Note, what it looked like, how to read it, and it’s corresponding rest. In this section, we will go deeper into the 16th note and discuss the different groupings and how they look:

Learn to Read Drum Music – Part 3 – The Sixteenth Note

Hey drummers! Welcome back to my series on learning to read drum sheet music! This is part 3 in the series, so if you’re a beginner and stumbled upon this page out of order, click the links below to start at the beginning:

In this section I will be expanding upon what we’ve learned already. Next, I will be moving onto one of the larger topics, the sixteenth note (16th note). Don’t be afraid, it really isn’t that hard once you understand what everything looks like:

Learn to Read Drum Music – Part 2 – The Eighth Note

Hey y’all!

Welcome to part 2 of “Learn to Read Drum Music”. In this section we will build off and expand upon of what you learned in Part 1. Click the link for Learn to Read Drum Music – Part 1, if you missed my first post or are confused and need to go back to the basics.

Learn to Read Drum Music – Part 1 – The Basics

In this series I’ll be teaching y’all how to read drum music. Music for drummers (also called notation) is pretty straightforward, especially if you have any previous experience with reading music from another instrument. If you’ve never even seen written music before, let alone drum notation, this post is for you!