Teach better. Practice Better. Play better.
Countless drum videos, tutorials, and shelves full of sheet music have piled up. And when you need the right sheet music at the crucial moment? Drum Notes Archive comes to the rescue:
- Guided Lessons from Beginner to Master
- Songs that complement the lessons
- Lesson Generator with thousands of grooves and fill-ins
- Big Data — All lessons, songs, and even individual bars are enriched with extensive data and interconnected
- Smart lesson and song filters to respond flexibly and quickly to student requests
- Everything always digital – no books, filing cabinets, or paper clutter
- It keeps growing – every month new lessons, songs, and features are added
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* And all other drummers who want to know.
Guided Lessons
The Guided Lessons Series is an ever-growing curriculum that covers all aspects of modern drumming.
Spanning five levels from Beginner to Master, it offers well-structured teaching and practice material for many years.
The first three volumes are complete. They will soon also be available in print.
Additional books are created "live" on drumnotessarchive.com – new lessons are added every month.
Guided Lesson Filter
Find the right lessons in seconds, for example:
"16th note HiHat Grooves (one-handed or two-handed) plus shifted 8th note Bass Drum" or
"Soca lessons for Level 2, with at least one bar matched with appropriate songs".
Perfect for quick lesson planning!
Matched Playalongs & Loops
Adjust the tempo of the playalongs and create your own mixes—first playing along with just the drum track/click, and later only with bass and melody.
Just like in a real band.
Songs
And on top of it all: matching song transcriptions.
Which can be filtered by topics, styles, level, tempo, and more.
Downloadable as clear, easy-to-read PDFs.
And every month, new songs are added.
Everything at a Glance
Even the song overview provides all the important details—level, BPM, and the basic groove presented as musical notation.
Find Matching Songs FASTER
With just a few clicks, find the right songs, for example:
"HipHop Songs – 8th note HiHat – 16th note Bass Drum" or "Songs with Train Beat" or "Shuffle Songs – Level 2".
Perfect for teachers who can react flexibly to student requests. "Not 16th note HiHat again..." "Can we play songs again?!" "But I only like HipHop!"
And at the same time, deepen topics such as ghost notes, swing, or 6/8 bars with matching songs.
And which songs are there for exactly this bar?!
Click me
Every one of the 25819 bars in the archive is clickable!
The note icon above the bar on the left indicates that there are matching songs for that exact groove.
Lesson Generator
Many individual bars in the archive (currently 10,000+) are
filterable by topics, levels, and even rhythmic building blocks.
And thanks to the PDF function, the archive is a true lesson generator,
allowing you to dive deeper into individual topics!
Create Your Own Lessons
Following the “more of the same” principle, you can quickly create your own lessons with the generator. How about...
“Reading exercises with 16th-note snare” or “16th-note HiHat hand-to-hand – shifted 8th-note bass drum – only bars with matching songs”.
Very handy for digging deeper into specific topics.
JamTracks
You're practicing funk grooves and need the perfect backing track?
JamTracks are loops organized by styles, feels, and tempo.
They can be added on with all Guided Lessons and Generator Lessons.
JamTracks with Built-in Mixer
Divided by styles or feels such as quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, offbeat, or shuffle.
Can be added wherever there's no backing track (for example, with Generator Lessons).
Or simply for jamming along.
So that amidst all the sheet music, the real goal isn't lost: playing music!
About
We are drummers with over 50 years of band and teaching experience, plus degree to our credit, and with Drum Notes Archive we are fulfilling our dream of an intelligent drum sheet music archive.
Hopefully, you are too!
We look forward to your questions & suggestions
Georg & Thomas
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