MFTC
Junior Member
Hey everyone
How's it going? So we've all been there, sat at our set tired after work, surrounded by various drum tuition books open at whatever page we intended to get to, we've never got all the way through but having it open nearby some how seems as valid... laptop is open, half heartedly tried a lesson on youtube with the naive expection that muscle memory will set in in 2 minutes 38 seconds, wandering why this linear pattern will not stick and why we're not dancing all over the kit. Forget it, I'll just playing along to James Brown or something, missed that fill, whoops doesn't matter...
I'm not sure if this affects the majority of you, but when does it all get too much? When do you feel totally immersed by your true love and yet totally lost? Where fatigue and feeling overwhelmed overides discipline and focus and you just look around, and think "I have enough material to last me a lifetime yet I'm not engaged and I'm not progressing".
This happened to me last night, I hit rock bottom for a bout 20 minutes, I just lay on my bed with a pair of sticks gripped loosey in my still hands. Then it hit me. I don't want to whizz around a kit if I know my timing isn't up to scratch, I don't want to try to learn 220bpm inverted paradiddles if not going to apply them musically any time soon.
So I put all of my books on my shelf, all of the except 1 and I went back over some of the most basic things I could find, really slow and realy relaxed, if I messed up I simply looped the pattern until it felt good.
I'm not asking for solutions or practice tips (though they are always nice!), I was just wandering about the rest you, of us. When does it all get too much, when do you realise you've set yourself up for a fall and you expectations are too high, when does it get to the point when you begin to lose sight of what playing drums even is and what it means to you, just a though.
Matt
How's it going? So we've all been there, sat at our set tired after work, surrounded by various drum tuition books open at whatever page we intended to get to, we've never got all the way through but having it open nearby some how seems as valid... laptop is open, half heartedly tried a lesson on youtube with the naive expection that muscle memory will set in in 2 minutes 38 seconds, wandering why this linear pattern will not stick and why we're not dancing all over the kit. Forget it, I'll just playing along to James Brown or something, missed that fill, whoops doesn't matter...
I'm not sure if this affects the majority of you, but when does it all get too much? When do you feel totally immersed by your true love and yet totally lost? Where fatigue and feeling overwhelmed overides discipline and focus and you just look around, and think "I have enough material to last me a lifetime yet I'm not engaged and I'm not progressing".
This happened to me last night, I hit rock bottom for a bout 20 minutes, I just lay on my bed with a pair of sticks gripped loosey in my still hands. Then it hit me. I don't want to whizz around a kit if I know my timing isn't up to scratch, I don't want to try to learn 220bpm inverted paradiddles if not going to apply them musically any time soon.
So I put all of my books on my shelf, all of the except 1 and I went back over some of the most basic things I could find, really slow and realy relaxed, if I messed up I simply looped the pattern until it felt good.
I'm not asking for solutions or practice tips (though they are always nice!), I was just wandering about the rest you, of us. When does it all get too much, when do you realise you've set yourself up for a fall and you expectations are too high, when does it get to the point when you begin to lose sight of what playing drums even is and what it means to you, just a though.
Matt