Super Easy Snare Drum Lessons for Beginners

Learning snare drum has never been easier! Super Easy Snare Drum Lessons for Beginners takes a progressive approach to snare drum education. Each of the book's lessons builds on the previous lesson, using drum rudiments and simple note combinations to reinforce the material.

This book's easy-to-accomplish lessons feature simple snare drum exercises, extra-large music staffs and notes, sticking notated inside the noteheads for ease of reading, secondary parts for duets with a drum teacher or another drummer, and audio tracks so anyone—regardless of skill level or age—can quickly jump into the world of snare drum playing!

With just a few minutes of practice each day, you'll learn:
Stick Control
The Paradiddle
Sticking Combos
Sticking Variations
Dynamics & Accents
Essential Rhythms
And Much More!

Veteran drum instructor and author Dave Schoepke presents the easiest way to learn snare drum! This is the ultimate snare drum book for adult beginners and kids!

With each lesson, you'll get:
Extra-Large Notes & Staffs
Sticking Notated Inside the Noteheads for Ease of Reading
Secondary Parts for Duets with Drum Teacher or Another Drummer
Simple Tips & Instruction
Downloadable and streamable audio tracks

FREE: Easy access to instant audio downloads from Troy Nelson Music’s website is included.

BONUS: Includes customer support! Questions during practice? Just email us, and we'll happily help you.

About Dave Schoepke: Dave Schoepke hails from the Greater Milwaukee area. He has been a professional recording and touring musician for three decades, including treks across North America and Europe. His credits include Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre and songsmith Willy Porter. He has been a creative force in Willy’s band since 2002.

An active session musician with appearances on over 50 albums, Dave does remote recording from his home studio for artists worldwide. He appears on recordings with such diverse artists as Bryan Lee, Darrell Scott, Natalia Zukerman, Raining Jane, Billy Flynn, Doug Woolverton, Victor DeLorenzo, Michael Bettine, Russ Johnson, Todd Sickafoose, Brian Ritchie, Chuck Garrick, Allison Miller, Ray Bonneville, Paul Cebar, and Alan Thomson. Dave has also recorded over a dozen instructional CDs for print music publisher Hal Leonard, covering many genres.

His solo drums project has produced three all-drums albums and garnered acclaimed reviews from Modern Drummer, Recording Magazine, and numerous online music critics around the world. The 400th issue of Recording Magazine includes a multi-page feature on Dave’s process of writing and recording his album Drums on Low.

Dave has been teaching drums for over 30 years and has done numerous clinics and educational-based symposiums with legendary artists Jeff Coffin, Ed Thigpen, Paul Wertico, Dom Famularo, Gregg Bissonette, and Carmine Appice. He maintains a busy schedule of teaching, touring, clinics, and sessions and is always striving to evolve in every facet of his music-making. For lesson inquiries or questions, Dave can be reached via his website, daveschoepke.com.

ABOUT TROY NELSON MUSIC: Since 2016, Troy Nelson Music has offered customers the most comprehensive and easy-to-follow lesson books and songbooks for a variety of instruments—everything from guitar and mandolin to piano, saxophone, and clarinet. With 30+ years in the music publishing industry, veteran guitarist Troy Nelson has sold hundreds of thousands of books as both an author and publisher due to the quality and effectiveness of his books and the service his company provides.

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