I gained an interest in drumming first because my dad wanted to play and bought a drum set. From there, my church needed a drummer and I volunteered because I had a drum set at home. I started taking lessons and then listening to music and teaching myself. From there, I started playing more and more and my interest in drums continued to develop.
I've always been fascinated by percussion, and I had the chance to take a drumset class in college to fill some credit hours and learn something that has always been of interest.
Since then, I've branched out into pipe band and pipe snare drumming. I've considered taking lessons but haven't been able to find a good teacher yet. I find it a little difficult to switch between set and pipe snare and am wondering if there are teachers who can teach both.
I started drumming in sixth grade because I wanted to play snare in the band. You had to be able to play piano to play percussion so I wanted to play percussion since no one else in the sixth grade could play piano and wanted to play percussion. I'm currently taking lessons on drumset from a great teacher, which I started because my parents bought me a drumset and I didn't know how to play it. I had played concert snare for a year before that so it felt weird to me at the time playing all the drums together. Two years later, I can now do improve rock and jazz soloing, do a Bossa Nova, and have basically become MUCH better in that time.
I've never really figured that out, but I'm pretty sure you had to have two years of piano experience so that you could blay xylophone and such better so they could teach you other stuff. You have to understand, because of the way it was set up, it was like percussionists had to learn twice as much as the other instruments. I had to learn melodic and battery percussion and they only had to learn to play sax or trumpet or whatever. I also think it helped stop everyone from playing percussion because it was the "cool" thing to play. So then instead of half the sixth grade playing percussion, only I could because I was the only one qualified that wanted to.
I would say it has helped a lot as far as knowing different rhythms and stuff. When I see the upperclassmen play I notice they can do more "rhythmic" fills if you get my meaning. It's like they have a better feel for doing different rhythms instead of just doing sets of four sixteenths on each tom for a fill. It's kind of hard to explain with out being able to show the difference by playing it.
I had drum lessons from age five to age 18. I'm self taught after that.
Holy sweet lord!! 5 to 18??? You should get into a few drum battles on here. Or post some audio of your playing. Wait, did you post a heel toe video on youtube?
Mostly self taught but one of my best friend who's teaching drum has his degree in percussion (Rhythm) he plays drum set, marimba & vibraphone so he gave me some free lessons & tips when needed...
Wait, did you post a heel toe video on youtube?
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