In Forty Five multi-media lessons you'll learn all aspects of drumming from holding the sticks and the basic stroke types, through to playing all the important drum rudiments, and all the drum beats for todays Rock style When you go to traditional lessons you have to follow the teachers plan, and learn what the teacher might want to teach you, but with this format of lesson YOU are in contro You learn fast because of great lessons, but you won't miss out on learning to read music, or learning correct techniqu If you aren't sure how a particular beat sounds when you are practicing, simply dial it up on your computer or media player and play along with it! I have been teaching drums for almost 20 years, and it has been my very-nearly full-time obsession for the last ten of those twenty years. If You Don't benefit - You Don't Pay! In lots of the early lessons I use a pair of sticks and a practice pad - a small "imitation drum", which allows me to focus on the main issues, the techniques of holding and moving the stick The fact is that I know a lot about drum teaching - I've done it for twenty years, and I know that anyone is able to learn to play the drums. In Begin Drumming you start with the techniques, then apply the techniques. Each of the lessons that involves learning patterns features an Audio Download Section where you can download each of the beats directly to your ipod or portable media player, at three different speeds (slow, medium or fast) Begin Drumming System - Video drum lessons - Learn drums online using advanced multimedia drum lessons!