kevinyo4
Junior Member
I just made a post in the drum-technique section about starting to play drums again.
However this thead is not about me specifically but I am interested in your opinions.
I stopped playing for a few reasons. The biggest one was more of a psychological reason I believe.
My brother always told me: "It sounds like crap" or "you don't know how to play".
Now was i really that bad? In my mind ofcourse i would say no. Everyone likes to believe they are better than the average player, even though drumming isn't a competition.
My reasoning was always, he just doesn't like the style of my drumming. I used to play quite alot of double bass and metal grooves. While he listen to more "mainstream" music.
But what if my brother was right? Perhaps he was being a dick for telling me that it was bad, but a few days ago I realized that all this time he may have been right. I was not a bad drummer for sure, but me practicing must have sounded like crap.
Let me explain what I mean:
Let's say we are learning to play a samba and have never played it before. You wil try to do the hand patterns and then you try the feet pattern and then you put them together.
However while doing this you WILL mess up the patterns, you will play out of time. When you make a mistake you probably stop and try again, or try the particular part by itself. Eventually you get it all down, and you know how to play a samba.
However during the practicing it will sound really bad probably. And when you're done you probably will not play that same samba for 3 hours.
We will then go on and learn to play new things. practice is made for learning new things, and improving, playing the tings you already know will not ake you alot better than you already are.
So during practice we essentially are supposed to sound bad.
As much as i love drumming, it is something that i have on my mind, and it lowers my motivation to learn new things substantially.
What do you guys think about this?
Also, imagine me practicing loud blast beats and double bass, while going out of tempo and messing up all the time for an hour.
However this thead is not about me specifically but I am interested in your opinions.
I stopped playing for a few reasons. The biggest one was more of a psychological reason I believe.
My brother always told me: "It sounds like crap" or "you don't know how to play".
Now was i really that bad? In my mind ofcourse i would say no. Everyone likes to believe they are better than the average player, even though drumming isn't a competition.
My reasoning was always, he just doesn't like the style of my drumming. I used to play quite alot of double bass and metal grooves. While he listen to more "mainstream" music.
But what if my brother was right? Perhaps he was being a dick for telling me that it was bad, but a few days ago I realized that all this time he may have been right. I was not a bad drummer for sure, but me practicing must have sounded like crap.
Let me explain what I mean:
Let's say we are learning to play a samba and have never played it before. You wil try to do the hand patterns and then you try the feet pattern and then you put them together.
However while doing this you WILL mess up the patterns, you will play out of time. When you make a mistake you probably stop and try again, or try the particular part by itself. Eventually you get it all down, and you know how to play a samba.
However during the practicing it will sound really bad probably. And when you're done you probably will not play that same samba for 3 hours.
We will then go on and learn to play new things. practice is made for learning new things, and improving, playing the tings you already know will not ake you alot better than you already are.
So during practice we essentially are supposed to sound bad.
As much as i love drumming, it is something that i have on my mind, and it lowers my motivation to learn new things substantially.
What do you guys think about this?
Also, imagine me practicing loud blast beats and double bass, while going out of tempo and messing up all the time for an hour.