Sevenoaks Drum School
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Sevenoaks Drum School is a thriving school for drum tuition based in the borough of Sevenoaks, Kent, UK run by renowned drum teacher Billy Cunningham. Follow this blog for all the latest SDS news, info, practise tips for students, photos, videos and more.
Sevenoaks Drum School
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Sevenoaks Samba
Billy Cunningham
December 8, 2022
Christmas is fast approaching and I thought I would take this opportunity in this blog before the holidays and festivities flourish to shout about my fab new samba club ‘Sevenoaks Samba’.
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What is Sevenoaks Samba?
Sevenoaks Samba explores the vibrant and infectious traditional rhythms of the Brazilian art form associated with their annual festival the Carnaval.
When?
The class r ..read more
Sevenoaks Drum School
2y ago
Samba Drumming
As part of running s series of summer samba sessions, here’s a quick primer…
Billy Cunningham
June 17, 2022
One style of drumming I have always loved the sound of is Samba and this blog is dedicated to learning more about this truly fascinating artform. In this blog we’re going to learn what Samba drumming is all about and take a brief look at how to play it.
What is Samba?
Samba is a style of music from Brazil famous for it’s infectious polyrhythms (several rhythms played at once) and played during Brazil’s annual Carnival celebrations. The Carnival runs just ..read more
Sevenoaks Drum School
4y ago
How to kickstart 2021
Billy Cunningham
December 18, 2020
As one year closes and a new year is just round the corner, I always feel this is the perfect opportunity to reflect on your drumming, your achievements and goals and look forward to greater opportunities with your drumming in the New Year.
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Sometimes it’s hard to know how to get started in the New Year after a long break enjoying the Christmas festivities! This blog will hopef ..read more
Sevenoaks Drum School
4y ago
Beginner’s guide to drum tuning
Billy Cunningham
December 13, 2019
This Christmas 2019 special blog is learning about drum tuning.
Some of you may be receiving a drum kit for Christmas and therefore the drumheads may need tuning. There are some fantastic online videos about this subject. I thought I would add my take on this as a beginner’s guide to tuning.
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What do I need to get started with drum tuning?
First of all you on ..read more
Sevenoaks Drum School
4y ago
Summer Drum Club 2019
Billy Cunningham
July 16, 2019
Following the success of the Summer Drum Club last year the popular drum workshops are back this Summer for more drum fun sessions! The sessions this year are split into 2 weeks, the first week covering general drum topics and the second week dedicated to learning to record drums and create drum videos. This is available from age 7+ and absolute beginners are more than welcome.
So let’s look at the two weeks in more detail.
Week 1: Drum Concepts: 12–16 August
Week 1 is covering a broad range of essential drum skills includin ..read more
Sevenoaks Drum School
4y ago
Choosing a drum kit
Billy Cunningham
May 1, 2019
Welcome to the April edition of the SDS monthly blog. There are number of questions/issues I tend to discuss with students over the course of the year and I’m going to try to address these over the next few issues of my blog.
This month I’m going to feature ‘Choosing a drum kit’. There are many different aspects to consider and drum kits range massively in quality and price. This blog will break down the pros and cons of your different drum kit options.
Acoustic or Electric?
The first decision to come to is whether you would like ..read more
Sevenoaks Drum School
4y ago
Top Five Essential Beginner Grooves
Billy Cunningham
March 1, 2019
This blog is dedicated to the five most important beginner groove patterns. These patterns are essential to developing your coordination on the kit and will cover the basics across a range of musical styles and feels.
Once these five patterns have been learnt and applied across the kit then the next stage is to play these along with suitable songs. Let’s look at each example in more detail.
1. ¼ Note Groove
This pattern features a single hi-hat note per beat. This means each bass and snare note is with t ..read more
Sevenoaks Drum School
4y ago
How to set up a drum kit
Billy Cunningham
December 18, 2018
Welcome to this Christmas edition of the SDS Blog. I get asked many questions related to setting up a drums or fixing certain parts of the kit so I thought this month some of my students may be receiving a drum kit at Christmas time, I thought this might make a nice feature and hopefully be of some help to you.
Setting up a drum kit
First of all this Blog will be demonstrating/explaining how to set up drums based on the presumption that the drumheads are already fitted to the drums and are ready to be assembled. Someti ..read more
Sevenoaks Drum School
4y ago
Top 5 Practise Tips
Billy Cunningham
October 8, 2018
This month’s Blog is entitled ‘Top 5 Practise Tips’. The Summer season has passed now and it’s time to get organised and into a practise routine for the Winter months. I hope this blog will be useful tool in your practise bag!
So the new school year has begun, one year older, the school are piling on the homework, there can be many changes to your weekly routine. Footbball may have changed from Mondays to a Thursday, Karate is now on a Wednesday, there are football matches Saturday and Sunday. The week can get crazy with fitti ..read more
Sevenoaks Drum School
4y ago
Summer Drum Club 2018
Billy Cunningham
September 17, 2018
Welcome back to the SDS monthly blog. This is the first Blog since the Summer as I was busy with various projects including the Summer Drum Club 2018 which I have featured in this Blog.
Summer Drum Club 2018
The Summer Drum Club ran over the 3 weeks of the school Summer holidays and was a great success. Students of all ages were involved from as young as 7 years up to adults. I grouped the sessions into 4 main categories absolute beginner, beginner, intermediate and advanced. The advanced session was tailored to the stude ..read more