Free Drumline Warmups & Free Drumline Cadences!
Use these free drumline warm-ups, exercises, and music with your group!
🔔 Patrick R. F. Blakley is DrumlineWarmups.com – Here are the free drumline warmups and free drumline cadences you’ve been looking for! These creative and fun drumline exercises, sheet music, snare warmups, songs, music, drumline cadences, and street beats are composed for all skill levels (elementary, beginner, intermediate, and advanced) and even include audio examples! Download the PDF and use these exercises with your group at no cost, nothing, nada, zilch, etc! Each warmup and exercise builds upon the previous one and they’re great learning tools to progress through and develop your skills and technique. Even the easy drumline music is a great workout for the hands as well as the mind to build physical chops as well as mental chops too! This is an entirely free drumline warmup routine and exercise program! New warmups and drumline cadences are added fairly often. Be sure to check out this outstanding free drumline music resource! Currently, you can find 206 drumline warmups, exercises, sight-reading passages, and pit/drumset exercises on this site, all for free!
Below are each of the free drumline warmups, exercises, drumline cadences, and street beats divided into three separate skill levels which let you find the right amount of difficulty for the application you need. This will improve percussion performance and confidence! Also included is an on-field warmup to prepare for the marching band show or indoor competition. There’s even a warmdown that slowly loosens your muscles at the end of a long day! This music is based on history and tradition as well as modern drumming styles that create the best of both percussive worlds! Some of the drumline warmups are even compatible with the pit warmups as well (as noted below). If you’re short on time and need to warm up the entire percussion ensemble at once, you have all the necessary tools right here for free! Whether you’re looking for snare warmups, drumline exercises, or a pre-built percussion instructional packet, we got you covered! Print them out and use each of these free drumline warmups with your group!
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Don’t miss the FREE pit warmups and the FREE drumset exercises too!
1. Elementary Exercise Pack:
Eighths, Sixteenths, Doubles, Paradiddles 🎵
(All four of these exercises are compatible with each other,
meaning they can be played at the same time, if needed.)
2. Eighths:
(All compatible with pit Eighths)
(Beginner) Tenor Crossover Symmetry 🎵
(Intermediate) Tenor Crossover Asymmetry 🎵
(Advanced) Tenor Crossover B Symmetry 🎵
(Chaos version) Tenor Crossover C SymmemmyS 🎵
Eight On A Plate 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
3. Stand-Alone Variations:
PACKET EXCLUSIVE: Beginner Off Blast 🎵
PACKET EXCLUSIVE: Intermediate Off Blast 🎵
PACKET EXCLUSIVE: Advanced Off Blast 🎵
PACKET EXCLUSIVE: Off Blast Bucks 🎵
4. Placement Control:
Intermediate – Work Placement 🎵
Intermediate – Alternate Work Placement (Single Stroke Rolls) 🎵
Advanced – Alternate Work Placement (Single Stroke Rolls) 🎵
(Compatible with Beginner Roll Program)
Cruise Control 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
5. Heights (Accents):
Beginner – New Heights 🎵
(Compatible with pit New Heights)
Intermediate – New Heights 🎵
(Compatible with pit New Heights)
Advanced – New Heights 🎵
(Compatible with pit New Heights)
New Heights (Flam On One) 🎵
(Compatible with pit New Heights)
I Know What You Grid Last Summer 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
Accentual Healing 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
6. Multiples / Doubles:
Intermediate – Double Action 🎵
Double Trouble 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
Triple Trouble 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
Quadruple Trouple 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
Left Is More 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
7. Paradiddles:
8. Rolls:
Advanced – Roll Program (Alternate) 🎵
Tenor Roll Patterns
(Use with any roll exercises)
Roll Models 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
Ned (Diddly) Flanders 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
9. Flams:
Beginner – Flams (Alternate) 🎵
Intermediate – Flåm Norway 🎵
(Compatible with pit Flåm Norway)
Advanced – Flåm Norway 🎵
(Compatible with pit Flåm Norway)
I Still Know What You Grid Last Summer 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
Flamazon Prime 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
Ned Flamders 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
Unflamiliar Territory 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
Invertigo 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
10. Hybrid Drumline Warmups:
Gridlick 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
Flamly Matters 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
Uncle Lefty’s Chop Shop 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
11. On-Field:
12. Warmdown:
Sixteenths
(Compatible with pit Sixteenths)
13. Overall Assessments:
Torque Test 🎵 (Coming Soon!)
(A tractor-pull-style drumline assessment.)
Sight Reading Level Assessments
Fresh warmups and technique builders are on the way, including an updated pay-what-you-want packet. The core material is getting expanded with brand-new variations and creative additions built to push your chops and spark new ideas. These are designed to challenge players of all levels and keep rehearsals fresh. Check back soon or hop on the email update list so you don’t miss a beat.
These drumline warmups and exercises are also featured on the iOS Diddles app! Check it out!
Pay what you want for a 318-page drumline warmup pack!
Don’t forget to check out all the above warmups, plus much, MUCH more in the pre-build pit and drumline warmup packet! You can pay whatever you want for this 318-page book consisting of multiple ability level exercises, a technique outline, and strategic learning guides. It even includes several fun and groovy drum cadences too! Pit, this book also includes numerous songs that can be played as a full section as warmups as well! There are even exercises that combine the drumline and pit together to save time in short rehearsals! Physical copies are available too, so check out this fantastic drumline tool and don’t start your marching band season without it! Need warmups really soon? You can download it instantly right now!
FREE drumming sight reading level assessment booklet!
This handy free drumming sight reading assessment booklet will help teachers and parents evaluate their percussionist’s ability level in order to provide an appropriate starting point for lessons, or choosing a solo. This booklet will also assist in the audition process when choosing a performer’s placement in your ensemble. The drum sight reading booklet is 12 pages and includes 6 sight reading passages for each level 1-6. The booklet also includes levels “6+1” and “6+2” which are geared toward the most advanced percussionists in order to provide assessments beyond the standard 6 levels. This means there are a total of 48 sight reading assessments in this booklet that can all be downloaded for free!
Print your FREE sight reading booklet here!
You know what goes great with playing snare drum rudiments?
Wearing them!
Check out the drumline apparel section for tons of great shirts and accessories to wear to your next rehearsal. From things the whole band will understand, to things that only the drummers will understand, and even things straight out of snare warmups that nobody may understand!
Get your paradiddle-diddle drumline shirt right now!
If you teach percussion you can use all of the above free drumline warmups with your group at no cost! The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
For instructors, this drumline warm-up packet pairs perfectly with The Field Percussion User Manual!
Below are some more drumline warmup and music resources you should get!
Drumline warm-up side note:
Is the word “drumline warm ups” supposed to be one word or two? Originally, the correct spelling of the word uses a hyphen, as such “drumline warm-ups” was the most accepted spelling of the word. However, today most writers are skipping the hyphen as you’ll see throughout this page as the word is used by pushing the individual words together. So to answer the question, there is really no wrong way to spell it, although using two completely separate words seems to be out, “drumline warm ups.” Instead, both “drumline warm-ups” and “warmups” are interchangeable!
Other drum books by Patrick R. F. Blakley:
Drummy Drum, Drummond Novel, Quadratics, User Manual, Info Packet, Drumline Exercises, Pit Warmups, Drumset Warmups, and Articles.
