mikeh23
Junior Member
sounds like you guys have all the problems i have. a good way to overcome that stuff i found is organization. make up a sort of schedule for when you practise. set aside some time for rudiments, techniques for both hands and feet. maby have some time after for learning new grooves and/or cooking them up your self. and with the new stuff you learn try to apply it to what you usually play instead okay heres my cascara now ill show you my blast beat. put them together in one way or another in sequence. and pretty much just find out what you weaknesses are and make time for those too. then after the discipline take some time to goof off on drums including the stuff that just joined your drum vocab. this is what i started doing about a month ago and its going great. also do ALL of this with a metronome. do it super slow, comfort speed, and a speed that you push it and every so slowly move all three up. i find having a mirror by my drums helps too. it lets me see myself play and what i may be doing wrong. a clock by your drums is nice too. another big one that my drum teacher told me to do was actively listen to music. once you play drums i guess it comes naturally but when you listen to music imagine yourself playing and the different ways it might be played. do this with all sorts of music as well. i know alot of you also dont have time to do all this so pick out what you think is most important and do that in the time you have. seriously your imagination is your most powerfull tool, so when your not behind your drums imagine you are and practise. i hope this all helps because it sure helped me. oh and my weakness' are letting myself get frustrated, left hand/foot technique and bad posture.