Rockschool Drums Grade 1 (2024)

The Drums Grade 1 book is the essential companion to your Grade 1 exam. It covers fundamental techniques and introduces you to the core music theory behind six styles of rock and pop.

What you’ll learn at Grade 1

• Moving between cymbals, open hi hats, syncopated accents
• Single and double strokes, paradiddles
• Playback skills

Rockschool Drums Grade 1 Hit Tunes

• Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
• Nirvana – Come As You Are
• Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – The Tracks Of My Tears
• Ed Sheeran – Bad Habits
• The Specials – A Message to You Rudy
• WILLOW – Wait a Minute!

Rockschool Originals | Drums Grade 1

• Ignite
• Downtown Detroit
• As Night Falls