![]() ![]() One of the most effective tools for obtaining instant feedback is an electronic drum kit (I recommend Yamaha DTX6 Series electronic drums). Here’s a good habit: Try and record yourself every time you practice, even if it’s just for a couple minutes playing on a pad, to evaluate what you’re doing and how you’re doing it. Beginning students should share those practice recordings with their teacher, who can identify issues to work on advanced players can do this on their own. ![]() So, in addition to listening to many different recordings of music and drummers, you should also listen frequently to recordings of yourself in order to track your progress and recognize any weaknesses in your playing. However you obtain it, feedback is critical to your development and to the avoidance of acquiring bad habits. In other words, don’t just practice free-form: play along to recordings, loops, etc., and in a wide range of tempos, volumes and styles. Practice the Way You’ll PlayĪs much as possible, practice the way you’ll play, which is in context with music. For example, if you want to improve your jazz or Afro-Cuban drumming, identify or have your teacher recommend specific things to work on and listen to that are consistent with that goal. If your ultimate goal is to make music with other musicians, then always keep that as your target when you select things to practice and study. The learning zone is where improvement is made. We’re in the learning zone when we work on things that challenge and stretch us we’re in our comfort zone when we’re playing things we can already do fairly well. Spend 75% of your practice time in the learning zone and 25% in the comfort zone. How to practice is just as important as what to practice. My years of research in neuroscience have led to designing some more effective ways to practice and learn to play drums.īased on these findings, here are the top 10 recommendations I make to my students: 1. Some are based on custom, intuition, hearsay, trial and error, or tradition … but not all are based on facts. However, certain aspects of what (and how) we should practice have been handed down for decades. It requires time, a plan, commitment, desire, consistency, perseverance and patience. Part diary, part crash course in rock stardom, Don't Sleep with Your Drummer is a hilarious, no-holds-barred guide through the pleasures and pitfalls of the music industry-from the beginning to the bitter end, and back again.There are no shortcuts to becoming an excellent drummer. Suddenly, she's learning the real lessons of Rock and Roll High School, including the danger of trusting a record company executive who ties a ponytail in his goatee, and the ten telltale signs your bass player is living in your practice space. But while reveling in free tequila shots, autograph hunters, and other perks of minor stardom, Jenny realizes with a shock that 60-Foot Queenie is poised to become even bigger than she imagined. Meet musicians.Ĥ) Cash in pension and buy kickass guitar amp.ĥ) Team up with sex-crazed guitar genius/best friend Lucy Stover Hanover II.Īfter auditioning every musician in the greater Los Angeles area-including the deluded, deranged, and underaged-Jenny finds the perfect lineup, and 60-Foot Queenie is born. Items on her new to-do list include:ġ) Quit going-somewhere copywriting job and get going-to-band-practice job.Ģ) Break up with Hootie and the Blowfish-lovin' boyfriend.ģ) Hang out in skanky bars. At twenty-eight, Jenny Troanni has decided to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be. ![]()
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