drummerboy2015
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So after putting my ad in the appropriate places I've made contact with a couple of players and we're going to meet. Date has not been decided on yet but they basically said whenever I'm ready.
I know this probably is a question with an obvious answer but people all learn differently and sometimes we can learn things quicker doing it a slightly different way.
They have three songs that they want me to play with them. One of them I'm fairly familiar with but I've never drummed to it before. The other two are brand new songs but the drum parts seemed fairly simplistic. I don't think they are looking for note-for-note type of accuracy but I would like to do the best I can obviously.
So what is the most efficient way to not only learn the song but learn to drum to it? My thought was is that at the very least I would listen to the two songs over and over again without even drumming at first just to get to know the dang things. (Probably working on one at a time for the most part) I've never really thought about it but all of the songs that I picked are songs that I have been listening to for 20 - 30 years. I could listen to the songs in the car on my way to work and back home and other down times where I'm not drumming. And as I'm listening to the songs I would pay attention to the drum parts. And in that whole process I'm assuming just getting behind the kit, listening to portions of the song and playing along to it critiquing myself as I go along. I've heard of people writing drum tabs and that seems to help them and I believe I could do that but I don't know if that will help with the learning process.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
I know this probably is a question with an obvious answer but people all learn differently and sometimes we can learn things quicker doing it a slightly different way.
They have three songs that they want me to play with them. One of them I'm fairly familiar with but I've never drummed to it before. The other two are brand new songs but the drum parts seemed fairly simplistic. I don't think they are looking for note-for-note type of accuracy but I would like to do the best I can obviously.
So what is the most efficient way to not only learn the song but learn to drum to it? My thought was is that at the very least I would listen to the two songs over and over again without even drumming at first just to get to know the dang things. (Probably working on one at a time for the most part) I've never really thought about it but all of the songs that I picked are songs that I have been listening to for 20 - 30 years. I could listen to the songs in the car on my way to work and back home and other down times where I'm not drumming. And as I'm listening to the songs I would pay attention to the drum parts. And in that whole process I'm assuming just getting behind the kit, listening to portions of the song and playing along to it critiquing myself as I go along. I've heard of people writing drum tabs and that seems to help them and I believe I could do that but I don't know if that will help with the learning process.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!