When you create a rock band, one of the most important instruments is the drums. They keep your background tempo and timing intact, so the guitar, bass and vocals can base themselves on it. You always need to keep good proper rhythm when you play the drums, because all the rest of the music is depending on you if you happen to be the drummer. It can seem hard to coordinate the five different drums together, but they can be easier if you’ve got the right lessons that teach you how to coordinate the toms, bass and snare. Also, you may need help coming up with good drum fills. Jared Falk, a professional drummer and instructor, has created drum DVDs that instruct drummers in exactly these areas.

First, Jared Falk’s drum DVDs give you basic techniques in how to hold the drumsticks and tune and set up your drums. It goes without saying that your drums need to be tuned to the sound you want so they’ll give off a good sound when you’re playing. It’s best to make sure they can easily be reached from where you’re sitting on the stool and that you’re able to reach the bass drum’s pedal. Jared Falk’s drum DVDs show you all this, and have some play-along lessons and instructional workbooks and DVDs. They come in beginner, intermediate and advanced, so you can learn at whatever pace suites you the best. Also, the play-along CDs you get with the drum DVDs give you a few popular tracks to play along to without the drums – you provide that part yourself. You also learn how to read drum music notation.

Several other techniques for drumming are included in the drum DVDs – the drumroll and the flam note being chief amongst these. Just as a preview, the flam note is the drumming term for a note played with both sticks on the same drum but slightly out of time with one another to create an echo effect. Jared Falk’s drum DVDs teach the gravity roll, where you let gravity provide most of the power on your drum strokes. Heavy metal, punk and some subgenres of rock have caught on to this technique and it’s very popular in those genres due to the ease it can be used.

Mainly, Jared Falk teaches lessons on his drum DVDs based on the Moeller principle of drumming, which goes all the way back to the Civil War. This was the same method used by Civil War drummers, and it’s where Jared Falk’s gravity roll comes from. Civil War drummers often allowed gravity to do the work so they could play for longer and not expend their strength if they didn’t have to. A technique based on the Moeller method is the one handed drum roll, where you often do 3 or 5 strokes.

Jared Falk’s drum DVDs can help you learn to play the drums because they give a full course from the basics to more advanced techniques. If you get stuck with drum fills, the DVDs offer a section that teaches you how to be creative when trying to play drum fills. This way you don’t have to worry about falling silent during a gap in the song.