the Birmingham Drum Battery
online guidebook

Welcome to the Birmingham Drum Battery online guidebook.

You’ll find helpful information that will help you to read music, play and look after your instrument and perform through some short video lessons with downloadable resources that you can use at home.

This is a new thing for us, so if you have any questions, or feel like there is something that we have missed, just let us know and we’ll sort that out for you.

Have fun and see you at the Birmingham Drum Battery!

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How To Read Music

An easy way to learn some of the core concepts of reading, playing and performing with the BDB

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Downloadable Resources

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Physical Warm up

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Rudiments
Lv. 1-3

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At Ready,
At Rest

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