I want to explore classical music.. little help please :)?

Sorry, that constant 4/4 drumming is primarily a rock-pop deal, but you will find, if you are open-eared, that there is classical music with a bodacious motor drive, constant pulse, which can equal or surpass the same kind of feel or excitement the foursquare percussion in a lot of pop music generates. And there are slower, highly lyric pieces as well. Hoping you'll just forget about that drumming and listen with open ears to what this music has to offer you :-)

Claude Debussy ~ Prélude a l'après-midi d'un faune -- subtle, pliable rhythm - considered one of the more beautiful pieces in classical music, rich with instrumental colors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB6VOY55hxw

(You might also like Debussy's Sonata for Viola, Harp and 'Cello, easily found on Youtube.)

Mozart:

Overture to "The Marriage Of Figaro" -- Very upbeat, buoyant, highly tuneful and playful music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKU94kxv-o

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante K 364 E flat, for orchestra, violin and viola solo (complete)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYT6mJs1vNA

Francis Poulenc ~ Sonata for flute and piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3heLhtGQpJk

Arthur Honneger ~ Pastorale d'ete -- another slower-tempo highly lyric piece, 'summer pastorale.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBkagAu8N-g

Beethoven, Violin Concerto, 2nd mvmt, 'Larghetto' -a masterpiece: Itzhak Perlman is one of the finest musicians to ever make a violin talk...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU9hZXWhb9k

Sergei Prokofiev

(You might like to try his Piano Concerto, no. 3, 3rd movement... if you copy and paste the following heading into the youtube search window, it should bring you directly to the link, It is an exciting 'motorific' driven movement, the whole piece, all three movements, lyric and spiky, and pretty wonderful.)

Yuja Wang - Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 Mvmt 3

Sonata for 'Cello and piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NavQEijx3pE

[ youtube.com/watch? ] v=SAn_DUxsBQ4

Sonata for Flute and Piano (here the first of four movements (the rest also readily found on youtube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaQTuWI4UU

Likewise, copy and paste this heading into the Youtube search window to go to the link for this animated and delightful Cello an piano piece:

LUKAS FOSS: Capriccio for 'Cello and Piano (1943) - STEVEN HONIGBERG

Dmitri Shostakovich ~ Piano Concerto No 2, a perky piece in three movements, here, the very poignant second movement, Andante....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlMHjo7Jwhk

a 20th century 'motor drive' piece....

Bohuslav Martinů - Toccata e Due Canzoni; 1st movement, Toccata

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMZw0uoRc4w

Most of these will not be in the area of your current listening habits. It is completely possible you find them 'readily accessible.' If you do not, I urge you to keep the links, and listen to them several times, let them run while you're doing something else, even, until they become a bit more familiar to you. I'm hoping some of them take, excite and / or move you :-)

Best regards.

<What I'm really looking for are compositions WITH drum beats in it> Well, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed, because the only classical piece I know with a steady drum beat throughout, is Boléro, by Maurice Ravel : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KgpEru9lhw

'My Heart Will Go On' isn't classical, and an orchestra can't make it so. Search YouTube for orchestral works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, etc., and see if you can find something of interest.

'Marche Slave' (Slavonic March) by Tchaikovsky features much drumming, but not throughout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSf8uF5UE-U

Edit.@Valentin P: Yes, but only in the opening bars of the first movement of Brahms' first symphony. There is just as much drumming here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFPwm0e_K98

A pretty little tune for the tympani at the beginning of Burleske in D minor by Richard Strauss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q_zSvns0QY

Liebestraum for Cello and piano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW_MAQj0aIA

I recommend Beethoven sonatas, anything by Liszt, Chopin Nocturnes and Rachmaninoff preluds and concerti (start with number 2) hope that helps :)

If you want something with drumbeats - Brahms, 1st symphony.

It's THE orchestral work for the timpani. (And it's stunning, by the way).

Edit: @Alfred:

I won't argue about that, since you right. (Although it also appears in the end of the exposition).

Everything else you stated is truly wise. (Hm, didn't think about Zarathustra ...)

Well, what about "Souvenir de Florence" by Tschaikowsky? It doesn't feature drums though, it's a string sixtett.

Here is the thing... "My heart will go on" is not classical music, nor does it have any connection to it. Classical music (as a general rule) does not have "drumbeats in it."

That is new age/classical-crossover.

That's not classical music.