Note Value Exercise
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Understand Notation With This Note Value Exercise!
This exercise is designed to reinforce your understanding of the note values and how to read them on a sheet of music.
The exercise starts off with a bar of quarter notes on the bass drum and hi-hat foot pedal. Next it adds in the snare drum, still in quarter note intervals and for a bar. The next bar uses eighths and adds in snare hits in between the snare, bass, hi-hat combination from the previous bar.
After that you move into practicing eighth notes triplets, followed by sixteenth notes, sixteenth note triplets, and thirty-secondth notes. In all of these exercises, the top of the beat is played with the snare, bass, hi-hat combination and the rest of the beat is played solely on the snare.
Practice this exercise until you get a firm understanding of the note values. Print out the sheet and follow along with it as you play, this will allow you to get a good comprehension of how to read the note values. In addition to be great practice for beginners, this lesson provides an excellent warm up for more established players.
Learn how to use cross-sticking in your drumming in the next lesson!
