k3ng
Silver Member
Once again another address to the teachers of Drummerworld.
I have had several cases where I've had to take up certain students because their old teachers resigned or had conflicting schedules.
Well I've come across a few examples where the previous teacher was obviously not very well trained and not very well versed in drums or teaching drums and resulted in the students culminating a number of bad habits.
Some of those that I have encountered
- alot of strokes coming from the arm and not the wrist
- hitting very close to the edge of the drum (especially snare)
- volume issues (snare too loud; bass drum too soft
- incorrect doubles
- incorrect grips (both trad and matched)
alot of these issues are what I consider bare basics that need to be reinforced from day 1. I teach alot of my students to observe their own playing and make sure that they don't develop bad technique.
But what do you do with students who have already been playing for a year or two or more and have developed these habits already? How do you remedy them?
I've tried teaching them as if they were starting from scratch but it isn't working. One of the more drastic measures i've tried is teaching matched to a trad grip player who's had his trad pretty darn messed up.
I also realise breaking habits is something that a student must work towards consciously but how much can a teacher do to help and in what ways?
I have had several cases where I've had to take up certain students because their old teachers resigned or had conflicting schedules.
Well I've come across a few examples where the previous teacher was obviously not very well trained and not very well versed in drums or teaching drums and resulted in the students culminating a number of bad habits.
Some of those that I have encountered
- alot of strokes coming from the arm and not the wrist
- hitting very close to the edge of the drum (especially snare)
- volume issues (snare too loud; bass drum too soft
- incorrect doubles
- incorrect grips (both trad and matched)
alot of these issues are what I consider bare basics that need to be reinforced from day 1. I teach alot of my students to observe their own playing and make sure that they don't develop bad technique.
But what do you do with students who have already been playing for a year or two or more and have developed these habits already? How do you remedy them?
I've tried teaching them as if they were starting from scratch but it isn't working. One of the more drastic measures i've tried is teaching matched to a trad grip player who's had his trad pretty darn messed up.
I also realise breaking habits is something that a student must work towards consciously but how much can a teacher do to help and in what ways?