Rudolf Hein

Rudolf Hein offers an online music education program specializing in drum set instruction under the name Schlagzeugunterricht Online. The portfolio consists of digital video courses designed specifically for adults who want to learn drums at home through flexible self-study. Rudolf Hein, a professional drummer and music pedagogue, acts as the personal coach for all courses. All instruction is delivered entirely online and does not award formal academic degrees or state certifications, focusing instead on practical instrumental performance, rhythm skills, and music theory. For novice drummers, the program provides foundational training through structured video formats. The entry-level offering is Crashkurs für Anfänger, an eight-week crash course comprising seven video lessons with a total running time of approximately two hours. It introduces basic stick technique, bass drum coordination, initial grooves, fills, half-time beats, and orchestration, accompanied by twenty downloadable practice files and play-along tracks. For an extensive foundation, learners can enroll in Schlagzeug kompakt für Einsteiger. This comprehensive one-year course features 208 lessons spread across more than 46 hours of video material. Each week unlocks modules covering warm-ups, snare drum playing, full drum-set coordination, and notation reading. A four-week free trial version is available, granting access to the first fifteen lessons and foundational PDF materials. Beyond beginner training, Rudolf Hein provides focused masterclasses dedicated to specific drumming techniques, rhythm concepts, and percussion instruments. The curriculum includes Moeller-Technik, which teaches the Moeller stroke method across fourteen lessons lasting nearly three hours. Rhythm vocabulary and sticking patterns are addressed in 20 Rudiments erlernen und kreativ anwenden, a program featuring 22 lessons and over nine hours of instruction. Advanced beat phrasing is covered in Pimp Your Groove, structured into eleven instructional steps, while Fill-In-Box offers seventeen lessons spanning four hours dedicated to drum fills. In addition to drum-set studies, the course Grundlagen Mallets provides fifteen lessons on mallet percussion fundamentals across more than four hours of instruction. All courses grant permanent access to unlocked materials, accompanied by direct inquiry support from the instructor and access to an internal Facebook community for exchange.