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Beginner Here are Drums

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thedan

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Hi,

I bought a drumkit today and was wondering if anyone knew any websites to get me off and going in the right direction.

Things like reading music, holding the sticks correctly.

Or maybe a video thing, or some beats to download with some basic tabs to play along to.

Thanks 🙂

Dan.
 
first just get good at (repeating) "bass, snare, bass, snare, bass, snare";
then try "bass/highhat, snare/highhat, bass/highhat, snare/highhat";
then go for the punk-rock-staple "bass/highhat, snare/highhat, bass-bass/highhat, snare/highhat".

Where, for example, "bass/highhat" means you hit them at the same time.

Start slow. Build up tempo with practice.

If you can do that last one good, then just do that for the verses and instead of the HH use a cymbol in the chorus and youre ready for a DIY punk band!
 
Thanks heaps mate, I was actually listening to Millencolin earlier and going 'how the funk do they play so well so fast' but yeah, anymore tips?
 
Wow, yer in Perth. Well, not too much of a coincidence but I just moved from the States to Newcastle NSW...

Yeah starting slow, practicing a lot going slow, the working up the pace. Supposedly easy, I don't really know, I never got past what I just told you above. One of my friends was just learning when I was learning bass, and we sorta switched off messing around sometimes, he got really good after a couple monthes. I remember the hardest thing to really get used to was the hand-hand-foot coordination, just getting your body to do what you want it to, if you can call it that.
 
Originally posted by: pX
Wow, yer in Perth. Well, not too much of a coincidence but I just moved from the States to Newcastle NSW...

Yeah starting slow, practicing a lot going slow, the working up the pace. Supposedly easy, I don't really know, I never got past what I just told you above. One of my friends was just learning when I was learning bass, and we sorta switched off messing around sometimes, he got really good after a couple monthes. I remember the hardest thing to really get used to was the hand-hand-foot coordination, just getting your body to do what you want it to, if you can call it that.
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Hehe, yar, My dad used to live in Newcastle.

I know what you mean though, your feet have to be doing different things and your hands different things. Its like patting your stomach and rubbing your head. 😛

I can get it down pat (excuse the pun) after a few minutes of practising, but it doesn't come naturally.
 
What kind of set is it? Start off like PX said, slow and consistent, and listen to the drums in all different kinds of music, you'll pick it up eventually.
 
Originally posted by: DrumminBoy
What kind of set is it? Start off like PX said, slow and consistent, and listen to the drums in all different kinds of music, you'll pick it up eventually.
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Just a 5pc, Bass Drum, Hi Hat, Two Tom Toms, a Deep Drum and a Cymbal.
 
Go pick up one of these

Helped me a lot when I was learning.

Granted I only took lessons for 2 months before I gave it up, but it still helped!
 
I drummed for about five years. For Christmas I got an older chrome Ludwig Rocker II 7 piece drum set plus cymbals and hardware. It was a steal @ $800. I played the crap out of them, reskinned the toms, polished the chrome and cymbals by hand, and sold it for $1000 five years later. Not bad...heh.

I always recommend taking lessons. Drums were intuitive to me, guitar and keyboards/piano was not. My friend wanted to play drums, too, but he had like three left feet. I couldn't teach him, just not patient enough, plus he was a real basket case as far as coordination, timing, and rhythm. So we took lessons at the same place, I took guitar lessons while he took drum lessons. Pretty cool.

For some odd reason, when playing the drums, I have independent 'sides'. Its intuitive, I never had to practice or develop it, it was just there from the start. I can't explain why.

But when trying to play piano, my left hand wants to do what my right hand is doing. When I concentrate on getting my left hand to do what its supposed to do, I lose 'track' of my right hand. When I switch my attention to my right hand, my left hand doesn't know what to do. Weird.

One would think that it wouldn't be such a problem since when drumming its not an issue. I can do complex rhythms just fine requiring my left and right hands and feet to all be doing different things.

Brains are weird that way.
 
Yeah, I'm actually a natural at the piano, it just flows. I'm not like that with the drums, but I'm not too bad.
 
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