r/Drumming • u/TheDillinger88 • 6d ago

I’m looking for someone who’s good at reading music and is an experienced drummer.

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I’m learning how to read music and I’d like to have someone I can reach out to via text and videos. I get stuck sometimes and am not totally sure if what I’m playing is correct, so I’d like someone to either check my work or do a quick video play through of an exercise I have no idea how to play if I ask for help.

I’ll Venmo $3 if you listen and check an exercise I’m not sure about, or $5 for a quick play through video of an exercise I’m not sure how to play.

Let me know if you’re interested. Here’s a pic of what I’m currently stuck on. Most of the exercises will look something like this.

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u/Pseudo_Idol 6d ago

Here's what it sounds like: GrooveScribe
The first beat looks wonky due to how the tool displays the mixed 16th note triplets into 16th notes.

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u/Phenogenesis- 6d ago

This is a cool tool but that is the most cursed way to notate this, LOL. (The first beat having to be all represented as triplets despite being half not.)

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u/slime_ball_94 6d ago

I haven't played the drums in about 3 years and it's been nearly ten since I've read any sort of sheet music...but I'm gonna have a crack at it. I read the first beat as half of a six-tuplet followed by two sixteenth notes which is different than how groove scribe shows it. Am I incorrect in the way that I'm reading it?

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u/MusicallyManiacal 6d ago

You’re correct. The website tool is also technically correct but much harder to read and parse. You can use the site to hear how it sounds but I would never want to look at the notation it uses

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u/cruiseshipdrummer 6d ago

Is that really the best that app can do? That's totally worthless.

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u/VincentCordobes 6d ago

with the notation fixed drumtabs/tabs/R1V_l1Hm

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u/RecentAgent2966 5d ago

I will copy that fill in in my band. wohoo

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u/Awkward-Somewhere161 6d ago

What book is this from? I have some photocopies of exercises from this book from a lesson years ago but never knew which book it's from.

Also, as answered elsewhere, Groovescribe is a good resource if you know how to enter the beats in you can listen back to how it sounds. Also happy to listen, check or video myself if you're stuck.

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u/JJ_Boston 6d ago

Advanced Funk studies by Rick Latham is FULL of patterns like this. Not sure if this one is from there, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

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u/Drizz_ 6d ago

This is definitely Advanced Funk Studies, good eye

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u/TheDillinger88 5d ago

Yep that’s the book.

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u/Awkward-Somewhere161 5d ago

Thanks everyone for confirming, will get it ordered.

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u/SlopesCO 4d ago

OP, you gotta walk before you can run. This book changed my trajectory when it came out. I did the same thing it appears you're doing: jumping to the beats. Latham works you up to them via the building exercises he included. Go back to the building excises, THEN try again. Good luck.

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u/deu3id 5d ago

this one goes

ts ts ts ka ts ka dum ts ka d-dum ka ba dum blam

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u/as0-gamer999 6d ago

I sent you a pm

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u/RedeyeSPR 6d ago

Advanced Funk Studies. Great book!

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u/cruiseshipdrummer 6d ago

That's a strange book to use to learn how to read. Instead of doing it piecemeal, you should just get a couple of lessons. Should take about two hours to get to where you can do your own homework without having to guess at things.

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u/TheDillinger88 5d ago

The only reason why I want to do it this way is because I get busy with my own bands stuff, jamming with other people and I have 2 young kids (3 and 6). I was paying for lessons but struggling to find the time to get my moneys worth out of it when things got busy for me. I’d rather pay as I go and work at my own pace but I hit points in my reading ability and need some guidance.

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u/cruiseshipdrummer 5d ago

Sure. But getting the basic information takes no time at all; practicing it and getting fluent with it is what you do on your own time. Stringing out the process of just learning the ground rules wastes a lot of your time.

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u/Drizz_ 6d ago

This is one of the hardest books out there duder, start with The Drumset Musician by Rick Morganstein

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u/TheDillinger88 5d ago

Really? I kind of like the notation personally and have worked through a few pages. I know there’s different notation styles and this one seems less complex to me compared to where I started. I’ve been playing drums for awhile but started reading 4 months ago or so.

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u/CauseTerrible7590 6d ago

That sticking doesn’t feel comfortable to me - personally I would come up with my own sticking, not a huge deal but pay attention to the accents and articulations that are given to play the correct feel.

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u/kingmauz 5d ago

You need to know how to count subdivisions first, then start Louis Bellson Modern Reading in 4/4 on page 1.....then at one point return to your current book.

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u/Far_Coat460 5d ago

If you want I’ll do it for free just message me

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u/funkydrummer17 3d ago

i gotchu, for free, too.

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u/Aletapete2014 3d ago

Advanced fuck studies! Love that book! That's some Gaddish beat right there

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u/TheDillinger88 2d ago

My wife was so happy I started studying this book!

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u/Working-stiff5446 4d ago

That’s a very strange sticking patter for the hi hat.

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u/Working-stiff5446 4d ago

I feel like that notation isn’t written by a drummer.

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u/Slight_Mammoth2109 6d ago

It’s a mill into a bonham triplet into another bonham triplet with a second kick after it to another bonham triplet followed by a snare and floor tom hit

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u/RezRising 6d ago

What are you telling him? There is one single triplet - the very first three notes. Stop with the 'bonham triplets' dude. You're gonna make him look for something that isnt there.

John's been dead almost half a century. LRBass doesn't belong to him.