Welcome to V-Drums Lessons, an exciting and unique series of drum and percussion lessons designed for the beginner to more advanced player. Hosted by top Roland clinicians and artists, V-Drums Lessons are taught using Roland electronic drums and percussion instruments.
Filter by:. This timeless lesson features three classic grooves made famous by Led Zeppelin’s legendary drummer, John Bonham.
Gregg’s informative study of Afro-Cuban rhythms and the importance of the clave. Steve shows a creative and challenging way to develop drum set independence. Try out these high-energy double bass fills at your next polka gig!. Gregg salutes and demonstrates the styles of the double bass masters in this informative lesson. Join Gregg on a trip to the Motor City and explore the style and groove of Motown.
Learn funky syncopation with these Gadd-influenced grooves. Master the Texas Shuffle with this “double-trouble” mix of groove and style. To commemorate the 50th episode of V-Drums® Lessons, we are excited to bring you an exclusive series of lessons with world-renowned drum set artist Gregg Bissonette. A true master of drumming styles, Gregg augments each episode with the stories behind each style, making each lesson informative and extremely entertaining. Apply this versatile rudiment to the entire drum set to create exciting fills. Develop speed and endurance with this paradiddle chop-builder and the RMP-5. Use this performance technique to color and propel a groove.
Using quarter-note accents on the hi-hat to enliven a groove. Johnny teaches a hand-/foot-based paradiddle lesson using the RMP-5 “mini-kit.”. Change a groove dramatically by experimenting with different sounds. Brad teaches the basic tones and techniques of the cajon as played on the HandSonic 10.
Steve demonstrates and explains triplet and double stroke fills using alternate stickings. Steve explains and demonstrates the concept of playing appropriate drum fills to fit a musical style. Learn to accent single-stroke 16th-notes with Johnny Rabb and the RMP-5 Rhythm Coach. In this episode, Steve teaches playing triplet fills around the drum set and within a groove.
Part two of Brad’s introduction to basic finger exercises for hand percussion. New to playing fills on the drums? Join Steve in this informative lesson on basic 16th-note fills. Using the HandSonic 15, Brad introduces basic finger exercises to help develop hand percussion technique.
Johnny teaches how to cycle through different rhythmic subdivisions using the RMP-5 Rhythm Coach. Learn to propel a jazz groove using left-hand independence.
Part two of Mike’s jazz independence study. Learn the concept of playing independent rhythms against a steady jazz groove. Brad Dutz teaches the basic tones and techniques of the West African Pot Drum using the HandSonic 10. Learn Talking Drum tones and techniques with Brad Dutz and the Handsonic 10. Learn groups of seven using different stickings with Johnny Rabb and the RMP-5. Master groups of five (quintuplets) with Johnny Rabb and the RMP-5. Learn tabla tones, techniques, and patterns with Brad Dutz and the HandSonic 10.
Explore common djembe tones, techniques, and patterns with Brad Dutz and the HandSonic 10. Brad introduces basic Conga techniques and patterns using the HandSonic 10.
Mike takes the mystery out of ghost notes, and teaches how to use them within a simple groove. Master the Flowadiddle, and learn how to apply this rudiment to the entire drum set. Master triplet fills between the hands and feet with this fun and easy-to-follow lesson.
Using an RMP-5 “mini kit,” Johnny teaches a great warm-up exercise using double-stroke patterns. Mike demonstrates a practical exercise with a focus on effectively using the metronome. Master this popular Latin groove with Mike’s easy-to-follow lesson. Learn how to apply this basic rudiment to the entire drum set to create some creative and musical grooves. Master basic Jazz/Swing grooves while using a metronome to maximize your practice sessions. Mike demonstrates how to play a hi-hat foot (or heel) splash with this quick-yet-useful tip.
Using the RMP-5 Rhythm Coach, Johnny teaches how to refine the single-stroke roll with dynamics and accuracy. Build up your paradiddle chops with Johhny Rabb and the RMP-5 Rhythm Coach. Learn Johnny Rabb’s contemporary approach to traditional Latin grooves in this lesson. Mike Snyder demonstrates how to change the feel of a tune by what is played on the kick drum. Learn how to apply this fundamental rudiment to the entire drum set to create some creative and practical grooves. Johnny Rabb teaches simple but practical ways to play these fundamental grooves by varying the hit hat, adding fills, and putting it all together.
Learn how to smoothly transition between a “straight” rock feel to a “funky” feel within the same song. Improve your double bass skills by practicing these kickin’ exercises. Mike teaches the fundamental techniques for playing effective jazz/swing patterns. Johnny Rabb teaches simple but practical ways to play these fundamental grooves by varying the kick drum, hi-hat, accents, fills and more.
Master the classic bossa-nova groove with this Latin lesson. Take your double bass skills to the next level by learning the double bass shuffle. Master basic shuffle grooves with this easy to follow lesson. Learn how to apply this basic rudiment to the entire drum set to create some creative and musical grooves.
Add flash and excitement to your fills and solos with these easy to learn exercises.
Get on the fast track to learning drums with Roland’s interactive tutoring package Learning any instrument can be a highly rewarding experience, especially when you start to see real progress, but it’s never without its challenges. It can be very easy to jump in at the deep end without investing the proper time working on the fundamentals and rudiments that make up a well-rounded technique. This is where Roland’s software comes in. It’s a program for your computer (compatible with Windows and Mac OS) that provides fun interactive tools to help drummers improve their rhythm, coordination and expand their playing styles. Designed to utilise the benefits of Roland V-Drums kits, it allows players to connect their kit via MIDI or USB to see their performance on screen in real time. The DT-1 also allows drummers to learn at their own pace.
Let’s explore the DT-1’s features with a series of videos presented by Craig Blundell. Connecting Your V-Drums to The DT-1 Software Connecting your Roland V-Drums kit to the DT-1 software couldn’t be easier. After installing it on your computer (PC or Mac), just connect the V-Drums to the computer via a MIDI or USB connection. The software will recognise the USB/MIDI audio device (such as the MIDI interface) being used. You can also get the DT-1 audio output through your drum monitor by connecting the drum module to your computer with a 3.5mm headphone cable. In the following video Craig Blundell walks us through the simple DT-1 Setup: How Does the DT-1 Software Work?
After connecting your V-Drums kit to your computer, the software will provide you with a range of on-board exercises, patterns and songs to play along to. These exercises range from absolute beginner to intermediate level so you’ll always have new goals to work towards. While playing, the DT-1 provides visual feedback of each beat you play with colourful correction marks that display the timing accuracy of your performance. Finding an exercise too easy or hard? The tutor software allows you to adjust the tempo of each pattern so you can practise at a comfortable level and incrementally increase the speed as your confidence improves.
To make it clear how quickly your technique is improving, the software provides a score for each overall performance, which you can try to beat, giving you a clear target to work toward. This is great motivation when you feel like your technique and development has plateaued. Watch the video below to see Craig Blundell’s overview of the DT-1: Practising Basic Beats When you first begin practising with the DT-1 software it will provide you with some simple hand- coordination exercises, such as 8th note patterns, on which to practise. After a metronome count in, you play along to the rhythm trying to land the notes accurately as indicated on the drum notation.
The software will make it easy to see whether you are in time or not by highlighting each accurate drum hit in a blue circle and any incorrect notes with a red cross. All these patterns can be looped continuously so you can buckle down and focus intently on anything that gives you difficulty. Video: Craig Blundell playing basic 8th note patterns: Game Mode When you want to take a break from your normal practice regime, the DT-1 features a fun game mode, perfect for those drummers who enjoy playing music rhythm games on their consoles. Easily accessible by just clicking a tab, the game mode presents the drum notes as coloured blocks that move down the screen: simply hit the correct drum in time with the coloured blocks. It’s great fast paced and fun tool that provides a unique way of improving your timing. Drum kits for fl studio free download. It even works with every song in the DT-1 package. With 60 preset songs, 57 basic drum patterns and the ability to install your own custom MIDI files (SMF data), building your drumming skills has never been so easy or fun!
With the DT-1 software it won’t be long before you’re playing your favourite tracks or your own songs with confidence. Roland DT-1 V-Drums Tutor is available in shops now.
Subscribe to the monthly Roland UK drums e-newsletter. Get on the fast track to learning drums with Roland’s interactive tutoring package Learning any instrument can be a highly rewarding experience, especially when you start to see real progress, but it’s never without its challenges. It can be very easy to jump in at the deep end without investing the proper time working on the fundamentals and rudiments that make up a well-rounded technique. This is where Roland’s software comes in. It’s a program for your computer (compatible with Windows and Mac OS) that provides fun interactive tools to help drummers improve their rhythm, coordination and expand their playing styles.
Designed to utilise the benefits of Roland V-Drums kits, it allows players to connect their kit via MIDI or USB to see their performance on screen in real time. The DT-1 also allows drummers to learn at their own pace. Let’s explore the DT-1’s features with a series of videos presented by Craig Blundell. Connecting Your V-Drums to The DT-1 Software Connecting your Roland V-Drums kit to the DT-1 software couldn’t be easier. After installing it on your computer (PC or Mac), just connect the V-Drums to the computer via a MIDI or USB connection.
The software will recognise the USB/MIDI audio device (such as the MIDI interface) being used. You can also get the DT-1 audio output through your drum monitor by connecting the drum module to your computer with a 3.5mm headphone cable. In the following video Craig Blundell walks us through the simple DT-1 Setup: How Does the DT-1 Software Work? After connecting your V-Drums kit to your computer, the software will provide you with a range of on-board exercises, patterns and songs to play along to. These exercises range from absolute beginner to intermediate level so you’ll always have new goals to work towards.
While playing, the DT-1 provides visual feedback of each beat you play with colourful correction marks that display the timing accuracy of your performance. Finding an exercise too easy or hard? The tutor software allows you to adjust the tempo of each pattern so you can practise at a comfortable level and incrementally increase the speed as your confidence improves. To make it clear how quickly your technique is improving, the software provides a score for each overall performance, which you can try to beat, giving you a clear target to work toward.
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This is great motivation when you feel like your technique and development has plateaued. Watch the video below to see Craig Blundell’s overview of the DT-1: Practising Basic Beats When you first begin practising with the DT-1 software it will provide you with some simple hand- coordination exercises, such as 8th note patterns, on which to practise. After a metronome count in, you play along to the rhythm trying to land the notes accurately as indicated on the drum notation. The software will make it easy to see whether you are in time or not by highlighting each accurate drum hit in a blue circle and any incorrect notes with a red cross.
All these patterns can be looped continuously so you can buckle down and focus intently on anything that gives you difficulty. Video: Craig Blundell playing basic 8th note patterns: Game Mode When you want to take a break from your normal practice regime, the DT-1 features a fun game mode, perfect for those drummers who enjoy playing music rhythm games on their consoles. Easily accessible by just clicking a tab, the game mode presents the drum notes as coloured blocks that move down the screen: simply hit the correct drum in time with the coloured blocks. It’s great fast paced and fun tool that provides a unique way of improving your timing. It even works with every song in the DT-1 package.
With 60 preset songs, 57 basic drum patterns and the ability to install your own custom MIDI files (SMF data), building your drumming skills has never been so easy or fun! With the DT-1 software it won’t be long before you’re playing your favourite tracks or your own songs with confidence. Roland DT-1 V-Drums Tutor is available in shops now. Subscribe to the monthly Roland UK drums e-newsletter.
Get on the Fast Track to Drumming Get ready to learn, get ready to play, get ready to rock! Connect your Roland V-Drums. to your computer (Mac/Windows) and prepare for a learning experience like no other. Enjoy practice in a fun format when you play along with the onboard patterns and songs using the colorful graphical interface. Learn drumming step-by-step from beginning to intermediate levels.
Improve your sight-reading with the Notation Screen, and enjoy drumming with Game screen. Enhance the V-Drums experience in the home as well as for private lessons and music schools. 60 preset songs and 57 basic drum patterns to build drumming skills. Notation and game screens teach you how to play drums. Colorful correction mark and scores display timing accuracy. Dynamic Bar Graph displays stroke balance. Easy installation of your favorite SMF data for custom practice.
Compatible with Mac and Windows.Specifically designed for V-Drums; compatible with any Roland V-Drums kit. Learn how to play drums! Listen to playing examples! The V-Drums Tutor contains built-in songs covering a wide range of styles, from basic exercise patterns to songs with backing tracks. Beginners can start practicing immediately as the V-Drums Tutor respects all musical levels. Learning with visuals! There are two types of screens — “Notation” and “Game.” The “notation screen” shows a ball that bounces with the tempo, as well as the graphics of each pad that is hit, which will light up at the timing when played.
In the “game screen,” blocks scroll downward at the timing of each pad played, so even if you can not read drum notation, you’ll find a practice challenge as if you were simply playing a game. Evaluate your playing! The V-Drums Tutor is able to evaluate the timing of your playing, and can display “O” and “X” symbols on the drum notation screen to show how you’re doing, timing wise. This visual feature automatically helps you to progress because you can see your mistakes. The game screen also provides a numerical score of your performance.
Practice the way that suits you! When playing with the built-in songs, the V-Drums Tutor allows you to change the tempo, or practice with a specific region repeatedly. You can also choose a variety of playback methods, such as listening to only the drum part, or listening to only the backing track without the drum part (i.e., karaoke for drumming). The built-in songs cover a range of musical levels from beginner to intermediate. Video Library. Downloads.
Brochures & Catalogs. Updates & Drivers. This is the DT-1 software updater for Mac OS X. After downloading and extracting the compressed file, please refer to the “DT-1UpdaterProcedure” pdf document included for the update install procedure. Improvement: When running DT-1 software on a Mac OS X computer in combination with a TD-30 connected to the computer via USB, you previously needed to modify the TD-30's settings.
This Version 1.01 updater alleviates the need to change the TD-30’s settings before using the DT-1 software. Support. If you have questions about operating your Roland product, please check our for answers to the most common questions.
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It appears there are a number of others on here using MuseScore in conjunction with Roland's Drum Tutor electronic drum software. I thought it would be beneficial to create a single thread where we can document tips, tricks, issues, and experiences related to using these two pieces of software together. For those of you not familiar with Drum Tutor, it is a piece of software from Roland that provides feedback to the drummer to make sure one is playing the right note(s) at the right time. More specifically, it is comparing the drummer's pad triggering to a MIDI file that the software is playing. Correctly played notes get a blue circle around them, early/late/extra/incorrect notes get a red 'X', and missed notes remain unmarked. There is also 'game' mode with falling colored blocks (like in 'Guitar Hero' or 'Rock Band'), but if you're using MuseScore, then you're probably playing in notation mode.
One of the nicest features of the Roland software (in my opinion) is the ability to open MIDI files other than the ones included and get the same feedback functionality from the software with those files. So without further ado, here is tip #1: Preserving Tempo Adjustability of User-Generated MIDI Files In Drum Tutor MuseScore version 1.3, revision 5702 Roland Drum Tutor DT-1 version 1.00 Operating System: Windows XP I can't take credit for discovering or solving this issue, as it was covered in a previous thread (which was actually how I found MuseScore to begin with).
As mentioned in Luthierzan's thread ( ), a MIDI file saved from MuseScore without explicit tempo information will be stuck at a fixed tempo when opened in Drum Tutor. The fix is quite simple. In MuseScore: 1. Click the first note or rest of your score to select it.
Choose Create - Text - Tempo. From the top menu or use Ctrl+Alt+T (keyboard shortcut). Choose one of the pre-defined tempos and click OK. (Don't worry if you can't find the exact tempo you want or the name means nothing to you - you can change both of those things later.) The tempo name should now appear above that first note or rest. To change the tempo value, right click the tempo text and chose Tempo Properties. Click the up/down arrows, use the up/down arrow keys on your keyboard, type in a value, or use the scroll wheel on your mouse (cursor must be over the value box for this last method to work). To change the tempo text displayed, double click the tempo text and edit to your liking.
Click elsewhere to finish. To move tempo text, simply click and drag it. While dragging, a dashed line between the tempo text and the note or rest that it is associated to will be visible. This step is optional and really only needs to be done if the tempo text is overlapping something else visually. To delete tempo text, single-click to highlight and press Delete on your keyboard.
This is just informational. Don't actually delete the tempo text associated to that first note/rest. Challenge xtreme 2000w pressure washer parts. The MIDI file should open up in Drum Tutor with the default tempo that you assigned, yet still be adjustable within the Play Panel tab.
Alternate methods: In MuseScore 2.0, it looks like you can set tempo during New Score creation (same dialog where you select Key Signature): I haven't tried this as I'm using 1.3, so perhaps someone else can chime in if it works for files opened in Drum Tutor. Tip #2 Location of Roland-provided Exercises and Songs MuseScore version 1.3, revision 5702 Roland Drum Tutor DT-1 version 1.00 Operating System: Windows XP Ever played one of the Roland-provided. exercises or songs and wanted to modify it or take an excerpt from it? Well, those exercises and songs are just MIDI files, located here (in my installation at least): C: Program Files Roland V-DrumsTutorDT1 Script DTV Exercise C: Program Files Roland V-DrumsTutorDT1 Script DTV Song Obviously, you'll want to make a copy and stick it somewhere else instead of editing the original. Be sure to change file permissions on your copy so that it's not Read Only. I made a copy of the first exercise and opened it up in MuseScore.
It had a stave for bass guitar and another one for percussion (or at least, it had a neutral clef). The percussion one did not appear to be a standard 5-line drumset, as the notes (closed hi-hats, bass drum, and snare) were all way down below the lowest line (6 or more lines down). I was able to add a 5-line drumset stave by going to Create - Instruments (keyboard shortcut 'I') and chosing Unpitched Percussion - Drumset 5 lines - Add. Also, looking at the Mixer (Display - Mixer or keyboard shortcut F10), that second stave was associated with Piano 1. Anyone know if there's a way to convert that second stave to be a drumset stave or perhaps copy notes over to a drumset stave?.To avoid stepping on any copyright toes, it would probably be best to keep any modified copies or excerpts to yourself for your own personal practice, as the original MIDI files are copyrighted by Roland.
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Although, they'd probably be more concerned with someone making money off pirated or reverse-engineered copies of the software than someone trying to sell MIDI files. Update on tip #2: 'Fixing' MIDI-import Percussion Stave and Note Lengths MuseScore version 1.3, revision 5702 Roland Drum Tutor DT-1 version 1.00 Operating System: Windows XP I figured out how to replace the piano with a drumset and get the notes back up on the stave when opening a copy of one of the Roland MIDI files: 1. Right-click a measure on the percussion stave and select Staff Properties. Click the Change Instrument. Select Unpitched Percussion - Drumset 5 lines and click OK. Instrument names should show up in the long and short instrument name fields and the checkbox next to Use drumset should be checked.
If you don't care for having 'Drumset' or 'Drs.' Showing in front of the percussion stave, you can clear those name fields while still in the Staff Properties dialog or you can select that text and press Delete on your keyboard when you're back out in your score (you'll have to do this for the one 'Drumset' text and any one of the 'Drs.' You can also put custom text in there, but that can only be done via the name fields in Staff Properties. The other issue I had when opening one of the Roland MIDIs was the note lengths. Upon import, I had just accepted the default 'Shortest note on import' of 1/64.
The bass line came through with reasonable note lengths, but the percussion notes were all 64th notes. The fix for that one just required choosing 1/8 for 'Shortest note on import' since those were the shortest notes in that exercise as displayed in Drum Tutor.