TL Music Books written by Theo Lawrence

This book has been written for my students that are generally in high school and studying Grade 3-5 and maybe some grade 6 pupils too. The student will have surpassed Beginner level books and perhaps worked on 40 Beats and Fills Book 3, but now they have a more rounded book to work from with snare and rudimental exercises, and more 4 way coordination and sticking patterns.

• 16 pages of drum exercises
• printable pdf ebook
• for drummers, drum teachers, students and self taught drummers
• Grade 3-6 ability levels
• Drum book focussing on bridging the gap between beginners and intermediate level drums

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You can download the 5 pages of introductory exercises as a pdf for free by following the buy now link and then clicking preview.

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This download includes 2 versions of the book.
2nd Edition Released 11th July 2025
1st Edition Released in 2019

There are other books in this series too, just visit the store’s homepage to view the other 40 Beats and Fills Books.

Book 1 | Book 2 | Book 3

Summary

I have created this drum book for students that have started Grade 1 or above, that need some extra exercises to work on. The ability level goes up to about Grade 3, but most of the content is Grade 1-2. I’ve kept most of the exercises in order of how I wrote the content, so please do jump around in the book if there are some exercises you feel like working on first. The styles of music featured in the drum exercises include Pop, Rock, Blues, Soul, Funk, Swing and Reggae.

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This ebook was released on 22nd June 2025.

• 17 Page PDF
• Printable pdf ebook
• For teachers and students
• Ability level is similar to grades 3-6

Introduction to 40 Beats and Fills Exercises Drum Book 3

Summary

I have created this drum book for students that have started Grade 3 or above, that need some harder exercises to work on. The ability level goes up to about Grade 6, so it should be relevant to any drummer studying Grades 3, 4, 5 or 6. The content isn’t particularly in order of ability. I’ve kept most of the exercises in order of how I wrote the content, so please do jump around in the book if there are some exercises you feel like working on first. The styles of music featured in the drum exercises include rock, soul, blues, funk, funk rock, jazz, reggae, nu metal and latin.

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• 24 Page PDF
• Printable pdf ebook
• For teachers and students
• Grades 4-8.

Introduction to Intermediate Beats, Fills and Exercises

I have intentionally called this an Intermediate book even though it covers grade 8 content, because I believe advanced playing should include harder material than what is found in Grade 8 drum books.

This book has been 2 years in the making. I wrote down the first exercise in my notebook on 14th March 2022. On the rare occasion that I get an evening to myself I would sit down at the drums for part of it and try to either revisit and develop things I’ve learned in the past, or try to push the boundaries of what I would normally play. This was half for enjoyment and professional development and half for wanting to get it down on paper. Some of the time I wanted to make the content accessible too and not too hard. For almost all of this material I could have purposefully tried even harder to reach that advanced level, but that’s not what I wanted to do with this book, so maybe another time.

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