5 Famous Drum Beats You’re Probably Playing Wrong
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What drum beats are equally difficult for all skill levels? Where no matter if you’re a beginner, intermediate, or advanced player, it might be a struggle for most drummers to learn?
Here are five beats that most drummers struggle to play. And what makes them more difficult than other beats? Is it an unexpected stop, unique sticking or a hi-hat opening in an odd place? Let’s take a look:
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
The Rosanna Shuffle
The Funky Drummer Beat
Cissy Strut
Ain’t Nobody
It isn’t enough to just play the notes in the right spots. It’s also about the feel and the groove. Every beat you learn that was played by another drummer will be almost impossible for you to replicate. No one else plays exactly like Jeff Porcaro or Zigaboo. And no one else plays exactly like you. But even though every drummer has their own playing style, we can try to get close…right?
Have you tried these beats? Do you also struggle with them?
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@Yupppi
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
The 5 is fun, my brain doesn't even hear the hat beat missing in the middle. Not even if I try to listen to only the hat, but I know the type of grooves where you make room for the other hits by not playing everything at the same time even though patternwise they should. It makes space and openness and that nice feel of dynamics even if you can't hear something was missing.
@lobbyrobby
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
The worst part of being a new drummer like myself is seeing someone playing a beat and thinking to myself "I can probably play that" only to walk over to my kit and quickly realize there's absolutely no way I can get even close.
@elqquiereser
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
that 4th beat is the one that deftones use in digital bath right?
@philiphobgen8283
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Amazing that nearly all covers of the Roseana main drum beat (and this vid) leave out a key part and it is not the ghost notes (or too many of them). The Rosanna shuffle requires groove as this video points out, and less is definitely more on the ghost notes to root the groove. But also an important (and in hindsight) obvious part in rooting the groove; there is actually an extra beat on the bass drum at the same time as the snare at the end of the second bar. I'm not sure you can even hear it on the main recording, but I've found adding it really helped to bring more of the groove to the piece that I didn't even realise was missing before. I saw it first in Jeff Porcaro's breakdown of the beat 🤷♂️
@grooveman69
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Another tricky/overlooked groove that I hear many drummers struggle with, is the MJ "Shake your body down to the ground" groove. I've probably heard 20 different interpretations of it and out of those, only 2 nailed what was played on the original track.
@tt55k
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Perdy Shuffle should be in this .
@markbahouth2713
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
i find Ringo Starrs drumming on the early Beatles songs extremely difficult . its not just the fact that he is left handed playing on a right directionally orientated drum kit. its that he is one of the greatest rock drummers of all time. the inspiration for most of the GREATS that played following.
@jeffhawkins5003
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Please please please make an instructional video for Mitch Mitchell’s Manic Depression by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. PLEASE 🙏
@davidbalan6571
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
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@Morgan-pv5py
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Would love a drum battle with Jared 🔥🔥 not only would a drummer of his calibre probably push me it would also be exceptionally fun and it wouldn't feel like a friendly competition just 2 drummers making beats and having a good fun time
You are a drumming talent Jared 🔥
@derek5168
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
This is a good example of how to break down the grooves that challenge you slow it down and then slowly build tempo don't rush (where's the emergency)
@leonthomo279
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
mans making this rosana shuffle look way to easy
@raccoon1551
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
The first one sounds cool asf
@rogerweiland6384
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Zepplin's Fool In The Rain is another variation of the Purdie shuffle.
@kronkurr9737
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Only rosanna seems hard
@MDUBE5999
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Check out One or APSOG PartV by Fates Warning 's Mark Zonder, The Great Debate~ XDream Theater Mike Portnoy. School~Bobby Jarzombek & Wolf~Richar Christy XIced Earth RIP to name a few
@Itskahuny
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
I like scrolled through without volume and glanced over the sheet music you displayed throughout the video as I went along and thought immediately “these look easy as hell. What’s this dude going on about them being difficult for?” Then I tried to play them one by one and was like “fuck some of these are crazy trickery” and still felt somewhat confident. Then I turned the volume on to hear you play just to get an idea of your speed and was like “oh. Okay. I get why he picked these now.” As I realize that they don’t seem difficult to me as I play them like 30-40 BPM slower than you. I sped up and instantly started fucking them up lol
@Seven-_-Doves
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
John mayer is prolly the greatest drummer In The world right now
@elamariIIo
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Cissy strut by the Meters, that is the real shit!!
@paaao
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
I learned the funky drummer differently. (Programming it into drum machines and DAWs, then playing that on a set). It was more kick kick snare, ghost/open hat twice, then back to the snare between two slower kicks than the start, and a final open hat before returning into the kick kick again on beat 1 and repeating. Instead of the ghost on the open hat (maybe just ahead of it), he also throws in a drill type roll on the snare sometimes.
@JackHandelman
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
WERE YOU RUSHING OR DRAGGING
@mrf507
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Thanks Jarred. Had a good laugh with playing 50 ways to leave your lover at a wedding 😀
@leehart8514
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Jared you sound great and the way you break these grooves down is so easy. hardly any teachers have your finess in showing how to play these grooves BRAVO
@HowardBaileyMusic
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
The 50 ways beat is one of my favorites.
@ajaye1
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Love DRUMEO! Thanks for these beats! They have been among my favorites for decades. You play them well, as an excellent drummer should. Please take another pass at Cissy Strut . What makes it challenging is the coordination between the hi-hat bass drum parts in the 2nd bar of the rhythm. Give it a listen. I was really looking to see how you were going to break that down for us.
Well, Amas Omar Hakim wrote in my high school yearbook…Don't stop playin' keep on jammin!
@dorianwoodwork
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Thx for the lesson drumeo y can play all the grooves now so thx for thet
@eldiablo3794
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
The best thing to do as a drummer is to find your own sound. Nobody will ever sound like any of the great drummers just like no regular everyday unknown drummer will sound like any other unknown drummer. All you can do is apply the famous drummers drum fills or patterns or rudiments and add your personal sound and flavor to it. Me personally, I always tell new drummers I teach lessons to who get caught up in the I want to sound like Bonham or whoever they idolize mindset, that there is only one Bonham just like there's only one you… so the best thing you can do is play and sound like you.
@choosky
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Purdie Shuffle! Listen to Zeppelin – Fool in hbd rain.!!!
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