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FREE ONLINE DRUM LESSONS

Learn drums
at home.

Lessons from a formally trained professional drummer and percussionist. Start with quarter notes on a practice pad, and work your way up to real grooves on a full drum kit.

Start with Bear Jump to the kit

Pick your level

The lessons grow up with you. Young players start with Bear on a practice pad. Older students go straight to the full kit.

Young beginners · Practice pad

Bear's drum school

24 lessons: note values and rests, eighths and sixteenths, 3/4, 2/4 and 6/8, then paradiddles, flams, drags and rolls. Bear plays along and shows which hand goes next.

Drum with Bear →
Grades 7–12 · Full drum set

Level 7 — The Kit

Rock, waltz, swing and 16th-note grooves, four variations each. Real sheet music that lights up as the beat plays.

Get behind the kit →

How it works

No sign-in, no app. Open a lesson and play.

  1. Pick a lessonChoose your level, then a lesson or groove.
  2. Press play and watchHear the beat and see each note light up on the page as it's played.
  3. Play alongSlow the tempo down, get it right, then speed it back up.