Drum Set & Snare Videos
Drum Lessons
See Harry Wilkinson’s videos to help his students and drummers all over with all types of different druming combinations. From snare drum to drumset material.
1. Single Stroke Roll
How to play the single stroke roll, starting slowly.
2. Five Stroke Roll
How to play the five stroke roll slow to fast and how it is a very important part of drumming and its use in early jazz and rock.
3. Basic Rock Rhythms
Great bass drum patterns that work well with modern music and pop songs. Standard bass drum rhythms used in rock, blues, jazz and country are shown.
4. Carolina in the Pines
Pop/Rock Top 40 Hit! How I used a few basic drumming patterns in 4/4 time to double time that I learned from two different drummers.
5. Bass Snare Cymbal Patterns
Fun standard sixteenth note phrases written two different ways to show how the same rhythms may be written slightly differently by different composers.
6. It Just Comes Over Me
Fast tempo, rock drum set style
7. Foundation Drum Set Skills
Basic drumming beats for jazz, rock and blues with rim clicks and Tom Tom.
8. Long Roll
An explanation of playing the long roll from slow to fast.
9. Military Harry
An intermediate level snare drum solo utilizing the primary strokes needed for snare drum performance.
10. Jazz Triplets
Workout on drum set utilizing the importance of triplets in the basic jazz feel.
11. Take Five
A jazz timekeeping study in 5/4 rhythm.
12. Blue Rondo a la Turk
A discussion of playing in 9/8 time on drum set.
13. Samba vs Bosa Nova
An explanation of how the samba is a festive, lively, somewhat loud rhythm style, while the bossa nova is a more demure, passive, romantic, easy rhythm on drums, with similar rhythm facets as the samba.
14. Sasha’s Ball
A very syncopated drum set piece utilizing triple paradiddles in R&B funk style. Composition by Harry Wilkinson
15. Work Song
An interesting jazz song played on the marimba.
16. Princess Pauper
A drumset study utilizing changing time signatures from 9/4 to 4/4 of a Harry Wilkinson composition.
17. Offering
Intermediate to advanced innovative jazz-rock, using syncopated sixteenths against eighth notes.
Combination of Double to Single notes -Ruffs- on Snare Drum
Combinations of double to single notes-Ruffs- are explained by Harry Wilkinson.
Learn Flams on Snare Drum or Drum set
Exercises and help with using Flams and their stockings on snare and drum set by Harry Wilkinson.
Learn Paradiddles
Harry discuses the Paradiddles (on the snare drum) and how to count them in quarters, 8ths and 16ths.
Explanation of Snare Drum Rolls
Harry Wilkinson instructional video of “Snare Drum Rolls.”
8th Grade Jitters – Snare Drum Solo
Middle School level Snare Solo 8th Grade Jitters written by Harry Wilkinson for Martin Luther King student David St. John for Solo and Ensemble Festival.
“Destiny 5” Snare Drum Solo
Harry Wilkinson instructional video of “Destiny 5” from his drum book. This written snare drum solo is in 5/4 time.
Short Suite for Snare Drum
Short Suite for Snare Drum,a study Harry Wilkinson wrote for intermediate to advanced snare drum using dynamics and advanced styles.
Come Together – The Beatles – Drum Cover
Harry Wilkinson instructional video of playing the famous song “Come Together” (Beatles).
Advanced Funk Rock Rhythms with Triplets
Flip Flop Drum Set Solo
Harry Wilkinson instructional video playing “Flip Flop.”
Jazz Time Keeping Study #1
Jazz Rock Journey
Harry Wilkinson instructional video playing “Jazz Rock Journey” drum set solo.