Practice along with Emmanuelle Caplette as she goes through this 5-minute beginner drum warmup on the practice pad! 🥁 These exercises are great for developing your single strokes and double strokes, as well as basic accents. Once you’ve worked through this warmup, try some of these exercises from the legendary drum book, Stick Control! And – as always – it’s more fun to practice rudiments along to songs, so enjoy this epic Kaz Rodriguez track (or find one of your own that’s at a good tempo for

Emmanuelle Caplette kickstarted her incredible drumming career at the age of 9 by joining a drum and bugle corps. And it sure shows -- her impeccable hand technique is a sight to behold. Taken from her new rudiment-based book “Smile! You’re Drumming”, this sextuplet routine will make you work up a sweat. Alternating between right and left-hand leads will help develop your coordination in a balanced way, and help develop your weaker side. And once you start incorporating the bass drum -- well, th