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• Useful Techniques in Teaching

  

  One thing I have learned about teaching, especially when it comes to music tuition, is that it is the duty of the teacher to take on a supportive, guiding role as opposed to a dictator type role. This means that through encouragement, self reflection, support and guidance the student feels...

• Triplets around the Drum Kit

  

  Like building a house, if you want to build your abilities around the kit, you must first lay a good foundation. As with all the snare drum rudiments, triplets can easily and creatively be transferred from the snare to the whole kit; however the foundational step is to master the concepts and...

• Albums with inspirational drumming ^{Editor's Pick}

  

  I have compiled a short index of albums that as a drummer, and foremost as a musician, I have found to be useful, inspirational and most importantly, pleasurable to listen to. This list is in no particular order and by no means comprehensive. It purports to be nothing more than a few albums that...

• Ins and outs of a modern drummer

  

  If you would like to get to a good standard of drumming quickly, the best way to do this is to have lessons from an experienced tutor. You will learn all kinds of different types of music, notation (grades), tuning, kit maintenance, performance tips and general need to know things to become a...

• Practice Tips for Drums

  

  My dear musicians and music lovers, We all have something we share- the passion for music. The most difficult part comes when we have to sit 8 hours in front of the kit to practise; in the end, though, what matters is how we practise, not how long we do it.. We could lose 8 hours and not feel...

• Things you should know about drumming

  

  Hi there, I seem to get asked the same questions over and over, so I'll try to answer them as best I can. Do I need drum tuition? The simple answer is... Yes. It's all very well sitting behind your kit and knocking seven bells out of it, but there's not a lot of point if you don't understand...

• The importance of playing along to Bands ^{Editor's Pick}

  

  For beginner Drum Kit players, one technique I have found incredibly useful (and I still do every day for myself) is playing along with bands whilst practising. I feel this is important for a number of reasons: a) It makes practising drums FUN! For the beginner player, practising drums has...

• Programmed Rhythms: a Self Improvement Scheme

  

  My personal specialism on the drums is playing Drum and Bass and Jungle. For those of you who are not familiar with the musical genres, it is music which started out with DJs taking break beats from artists such as James Brown (the funky drummer loop) speeding them up, and using them as the...

• Beyond Drumming

  

  There is a lot of excitement over the technical aspect of drumming. Often, the speed at which one can move around the drum set is confused with quality of musicianship. I don't dispute it's value in entertainment, of course a drummer needs to learn how to control his instrument in order to be...

• Musician's Memory

  

  Musician’s Memory This paper examines the relationship between the function of human memory and the way that musicians learn and perform musical pieces and exercises, building upon the existing research done in psychology into memory and how the brain functions. A contemporary study in the...