How to Play Air Drums

When drummers are away from their instruments, which is quite often, they often resort to air drumming. Although often distracting to others, playing air drums provides drummers with a mental practice session that can help a great deal.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• CDs
• CD Players
• Drumsticks
• Sheet Music
• Headsets
• Modern Drummer Subscriptions

1. Choose a song that you like listening to and has a drum beat that you like. Listen to this song repeatedly.
2. Close your eyes and picture the inside of your mouth. Picture the outside edges of your right molar teeth. With your mouth closed, gently click these outside edges to produce a low, clicking sound.
3. Open and close your jaw with your mouth still closed, and click your upper and lower teeth together. This should produce a higher-pitched click sound.
4. Use the outside teeth as your bass drum and your open and closed jaw as your snare drum, and play along with your favorite song.
5. Continue with these sound effects, and put your hands and feet in motion. You are now ready to play air drums with full stereophonic sound.