YOU’LL LEARN

RUDIMENTS AND TECHNIQUE

 

You want to have a nice and free sound while grooving and soloing? You want to be able to express your musical ideas fluently and feel free while improvising? If the answer is YES then it’s a must to develop your playing technique.

 

Technique training and learning rudiments might remind you eating bitter vegetables in the beginning. But later on it will make you strong and healthy. So don’t give up!!! It will take a while and some of your patience till the moment arrives. But if you really want it and strive hard – it will surely arrive.

STYLES AND RHYTHMS

 

Music styles are like different flavors. There are plenty of them because people in different countries, regions and tribes cook differently and also differently express themselves in music. When we grasp each of them separately we can later mix them and enjoy new colors of taste.

 

We will learn to play rhythms of different styles of music, we will combine them and finally we will spice them with odd meters. Gonna be really fun.

 

Main styles we’re going to work on: Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues, Funk, RʹnʹB, Disco, Hip-Hop, DrumʹnʹBass, Reggae, Ska, Latin, New Orleans…

INDEPENDENCE AND COORDINATION

 

This chapter is much more than just playing different rhythms or demonstration of incredible playing technique. I have in mind complicated exercises that will help you gain more freedom to express your musical ideas on drums.

 

The purpose of all that is to unleash your mind, hands and feet for fluent music producing and creative improvisations, also to help you build a rich musical vocabulary.

TIMING

 

The most powerful drummer’s tool unfortunately is not a shimmering look or shiny, most expensive, best brands’ drums. And not even a sophisticated playing technique or speed. What makes drummer cool is a FIRM TIMING.

Timing is being developed just like playing technique. It’s an inner clock that has to be discovered, cultivated and used by every drummer.If you bring up a firm timing your playing will turn to breathing, your grooves will gain sense of depth, you’ll feel more secure every time you sit behind drums. Finally other musicians will enjoy comfort while playing with you. As a consequence you will get more and more calls for gigs.

Even the worst drum set or most awfully playing band going to sound much better if drummer has a firm timing.

It’s worth to pursue !!!

DRUM NOTATION AND SIGHT READING

 

A very useful tool for any musician in modern world of music is to know music notation and to be able to read sheet music (sight reading). It is true there are loads of musicians who can’t sight read. But very often in modern music industry you will face the bundles of music sheets. Furthermore you’ll be required to perform the song perfectly by the second or third try. WOW!!!

 

What about performing with bands where no one will ever provide you with sheets of repertoire? You will need to write down the music yourself instead. And now this is the space where music and drum notation knowledge will come in handy.

PLAYING ALONG WITH RECORDS

 

And now it’s a fun part!

 

You like The Beatles, Queen, Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, Lenny Kravitz…, or any other band or music artist? You’ve always dreamed of playing your favourite song on drums but you never knew how to do it? I can help with that!!!

 

Shortly after you go through the basic drum rudiments, here you will implement this great dream of yours. Playing your beloved song on drums is a real pleasure !

DRUM TUNING

 

Drum tuning is very interesting process which makes you to listen as well as playing. There are certain drum tuning principles and methods, nevertheless there’s a plenty of freedom for ingenuity and experimentations.

 

Drum tuning is closely related with a search of distinctive sound and unique playing manner. You will learn tuning drums using your hearing and special drum tuning gear. You will not settle down on getting acquainted with the standard drum tuning techniques, but will unchain your imagination, explore drums acoustic and timbre abilities and test mutual interaction of drums voices. You can even derive your own drum tuning formula.

DISTINCTIVE SOUND AND UNIQUE PLAYING MANNER

 

Have you ever experienced this? You spotted something you already know while listening to unknown music track or song? Yes, this is the distinctive sound and unique playing manner of your beloved music artist. It is exactly what you spotted in that music track and 99 percent you can state it was that music artist.

If you really like and listen quite much one or another music artist you can easily learn to imitate and even to take over playing manner and sound from your beloved artist. To imitate other musicians playing is very useful in process of learning. However it is much smarter to build your own distinctive sound and unique playing style. This is the trait that will always belong to you and will make you an outstanding among millions of artists.