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eml wrote:You could take your favorite song and extract the drum parts and learn the song perfectly. Depending on what the drummer plays you might just learn a lot.
Eliminator wrote:I was gonna take up lessons again for some reason, but theres no point really
TheLoneGunman wrote:Eliminator wrote:I was gonna take up lessons again for some reason, but theres no point really
I highly disagree with that statement. Having a good teacher is beneficial in a myriad of ways. Having someone focus your learning, inspire and drive you to be better is invaluable. I've learned more in two months taking lessons from Mike Johnston than I did in 12 years of me teaching myself. That being said, there's nothing worse than having a bad teacher.
But there's a lot of people here that can focus, inspire, and drive your drumming too. I personally think mixing teaching yourself and getting lessons and any other way of learning are all good.
I highly disagree with that statement. Having a good teacher is beneficial in a myriad of ways. Having someone focus your learning, inspire and drive you to be better is invaluable. I've learned more in two months taking lessons from Mike Johnston than I did in 12 years of me teaching myself. That being said, there's nothing worse than having a bad teacher.
But there's a lot of people here that can focus, inspire, and drive your drumming too. I personally think mixing teaching yourself and getting lessons and any other way of learning are all good.
So Is The Drummer wrote:when i talked to chris pennie he said he would practice for 6-8 hours at a time.
i feel like you should really push yourself to the limit. i learned from training for soccer that when you're physically or mentally exhausted so bad that you think you can't go one more second, and you make yourself keep going, improvement is almost inevitable.
this doesnt necesarily apply to everything that goes along with playing the drums and it isnt a philosophy i can always implement myself. but theres still a lot of times where i am suckin' wind and burnin' by the time i am done.
im sure a good portion of that is from smoking and sub-par technique but it's not about where you're at but where you're goin.
Rob Crisp wrote:So Is The Drummer wrote:when i talked to chris pennie he said he would practice for 6-8 hours at a time.
i feel like you should really push yourself to the limit. i learned from training for soccer that when you're physically or mentally exhausted so bad that you think you can't go one more second, and you make yourself keep going, improvement is almost inevitable.
this doesnt necesarily apply to everything that goes along with playing the drums and it isnt a philosophy i can always implement myself. but theres still a lot of times where i am suckin' wind and burnin' by the time i am done.
im sure a good portion of that is from smoking and sub-par technique but it's not about where you're at but where you're goin.
I met Chris last Sunday and will likely see him again tomorrow. What a great guy and when it comes to playing, he KILLS it on such a simple set up. His commitment to practice really shows.
I try to do about 3/4 hours a day of relaxed practice, if not more with rehearsals/gigs. Freestrokes 2-50 around 45 minutes, half hour moeller exercise, hour and half working my feet including left foot workout (just started that). Then I spend some time practicing open handed and on Jim Chapins book, Advanced Techniques... both right AND left hand lead. Again, that's a new book I started after DRT.
I do need to rework my routine to get everything in now.
When I say relaxed, I practice and do household type jobs in between different exercises.
TheLoneGunman wrote:If you really want to learn some great things to practice that will make you a better drummer, start taking lessons from Mike Johnston over the internet. www.mikeslessons.com I've been doing those lessons from the beginning and I'm a worst twice the drummer I was 2 months ago. Sign up and please tell them TheLoneGunman sent you. I guarantee you'll learn a lot and get better. Learn linear fills, crazy grooves, latin playing, polyrhythms, pretty much everything. It's only $20 a month. That's nuthin.
zen_drummer wrote:TheLoneGunman wrote:If you really want to learn some great things to practice that will make you a better drummer, start taking lessons from Mike Johnston over the internet. www.mikeslessons.com I've been doing those lessons from the beginning and I'm a worst twice the drummer I was 2 months ago. Sign up and please tell them TheLoneGunman sent you. I guarantee you'll learn a lot and get better. Learn linear fills, crazy grooves, latin playing, polyrhythms, pretty much everything. It's only $20 a month. That's nuthin.
This is a GREAT suggestion!
AND... Ready for this?
EVERYBODY that attended Drum Road Trip 2008 will have a chance to win lessons from Mike Johnston over the internet. I think ANDY, (Drums Plus) made an arrangement for us to give away three or four LIFETIME memberships to the site... that contest will be posting the first week of August after we announce the winner of the July contest for the Cowbell.
And ANDY, Do me a favor and correct anything I got wrong as far as the details are concerned.
