[Music] hey everyone it's jared here and today i'm going to teach you how to get started on the drums so maybe you just got your drum set maybe you want to get a drum set and you're going to kind of check out how to learn but this is the video that's going to show you how to do that this is for absolute beginners now i want you to stick around to the end of this video as well so you can get a free gift from me all right so let's get started on the kit now you have all these different pieces it could be a little bit confusing when you first get started so we're just going to focus on three different pieces we're going to focus on the hi-hats we're going to focus on the snare drum and then we're going to focus on the bass drum okay so out of these three pieces we're going to build our first drum beat so first let's start on the hi-hat now when you listen to a song generally you'll tap your feet right so just think of any song think of your favorite song and start tapping your foot to it now most of the time you're tapping on quarter notes okay so you're just tapping along with the song so let's do a slower song maybe okay now for every one of these snaps we want to hit those hi-hats two times okay we want the notes to be evenly spaced and to make it easy we can count one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and count with me two and three and four and one and two and three and four and now this on a piece of sheet music would look like that okay so you see all the little x's and above each of those x's you'll see one and then an and two and three and four end now all we have to do is hit the hi-hat with your lead hand your main hand if you're right-handed play with your right hand if you're left-handed play with your left hand we're going to hit the hi-hat on all of those x's okay here we go i'm going to put on a metronome we're going to play along with it [Music] so now we've got the high hat down just make sure that each of those hits are evenly spaced between each other so you're not going one end to end three and four and they should all be evenly spaced and in time with the metronome okay so one and two and three and four and now what we're going to do is we're going to add the snare drum on the 2 and the 4. so when you say 2 you hit the snare drum when you say 4 you hit the snare drum and that would sound like this [Music] so it's pretty easy we've got to this point we're playing the hi-hat and the snare drum so now let's focus on your foot okay the foot pedal or the bass drum and we're not even going to worry about the snare drum we're just going to play the hi-hat along with the bass drum the bass drum is going to be played on counts one and counts three you'll see the sheet music right here on screen and so all you need to do on those counts is just hit the bass drum right in time with the hi-hat so that would sound like this [Music] now once you feel comfortable with that you put it all together you'll play the bass drum on counts one and counts three the snare drum on counts two and four and then the hi-hat on the one and two and three and four end it's as simple as that so let's put it all together again at 60 beats per minute [Music] so once you feel comfortable playing it at a nice slow tempo like we were you can start to speed it up so we are playing it at 60 beats per minute let's try it at 100 beats per minute and hear how it sounds [Music] so there's so many things we can learn the drums it's literally endless this is just something to get you started you can eventually get into all the different techniques you can get into all the theory like really understanding the note value tree and stuff like that but i really just wanted to give you something to get you hooked because i know if i teach you a beat that's played in thousands or millions of songs you can at least turn on the radio you could put in your favorite album and you can most likely play along with it so i really hope you enjoyed this lesson i really hope it's enough to get you started so now i'd really like to give you the free gift i talked about at the beginning basically what i did is i hired a bunch of professional musicians to come in and record a song now i'm going to remove the drum part that i put to the song so you can become the drummer [Music] it's so much fun to play along to real music that's why we play drums so we can become musicians we can interact with other people and i really want to get you to that point where you can play music as soon as possible that's we do here at drumeo so go ahead click the link right below this video to download your free gift and maybe one day i'll see a video of you playing this song up on youtube thank you so much for watching like i said it's jared from drumeo if you ever need anything else just come to drumeo.com we absolutely love playing drums and we love hanging out with drummers so thanks for watching and i'll see you again very soon [Music] you