sumwatt
Member
Well, my biggest problems keep changing from week to week as my drum teacher keeps piling stuff on to work with
I need a lot of practice (since I'm new to playing) but the hurdles I've hit recently is mostly counting mixed with LH and RF coordination (playing open handed). I've had to learn to count screwed up on the 1-2-3-4 because when I throw the "an" inbetween in my head, I foul up. I've found if I try to nail the pattern musically, I can usually hit it and then go back and slow it down and start adding the count. Now throw in trying to read the music at the same time and I will usually fall apart. But I'm getting better day by day and session by session.
Today I was mucking it up doing 4/4 with a { 1, #, #, an, 3, #} bass drum pattern and switching to {1, #, #, #, 3, #, 4} pattern but I think I got it licked finally.
I need a lot of practice (since I'm new to playing) but the hurdles I've hit recently is mostly counting mixed with LH and RF coordination (playing open handed). I've had to learn to count screwed up on the 1-2-3-4 because when I throw the "an" inbetween in my head, I foul up. I've found if I try to nail the pattern musically, I can usually hit it and then go back and slow it down and start adding the count. Now throw in trying to read the music at the same time and I will usually fall apart. But I'm getting better day by day and session by session.
Today I was mucking it up doing 4/4 with a { 1, #, #, an, 3, #} bass drum pattern and switching to {1, #, #, #, 3, #, 4} pattern but I think I got it licked finally.