Sparkboss
Senior Member
So after spending about 5-6 years partially lurking and partially asking stupid adolescent new drummer questions on the REMO forums, and then recently moving over here to drummerworld forums and continuing my lurking spree, i have come to a conclusion (run on sentence i know). My conclusion is that, simply being on forums and researching and asking whatever questions my little brain can crank out, i have become much more knowledgable than almost any drummer i attempt to have a casual conversation with.
Surely most of you have noticed this same thing!
I was told that a new guy checked into my command and has played drums for about 13 years! I have been playing for 10. i expected him to have quite a bit of information stored in his head. Truth is, he wasn't too bad - well, maybe he was! I got into a conversation with him and it seemed that when i used certain termonology, he just nodded and agreed and didn't seem to have much to say about it. Even on basic things such as drum heads. I asked what his prefference in drum heads were after he succesfully told me that his shells are maple, and nodded his head when i asked about how many plies, and guessed the number 7. The answer i got was "I usually like the clear ones" i asked about ambassador / emperor, as well as g1 / g2, he didnt seem to recognize exactly what i meant so i made it more universal and talked about plies. All nods and question marks above the head hehe....
I feel bad ranting about him because he is a really cool guy, and has some talent in drumming, just doesn't seem to have all the auxiliary knowledge to make him much better! However i wanted to touch on this subject of how forum surfing, for any amount of time, will remarkably set you ahead of the competition.
Now, i am requesting for other stories of some poor souls that you guys / gals have met who could have been a much better drummer with some aid and support from such a great community like we have here on the drummerworld forums.
If you've made it this far, thank you for reading all of my blabber!
Surely most of you have noticed this same thing!
I was told that a new guy checked into my command and has played drums for about 13 years! I have been playing for 10. i expected him to have quite a bit of information stored in his head. Truth is, he wasn't too bad - well, maybe he was! I got into a conversation with him and it seemed that when i used certain termonology, he just nodded and agreed and didn't seem to have much to say about it. Even on basic things such as drum heads. I asked what his prefference in drum heads were after he succesfully told me that his shells are maple, and nodded his head when i asked about how many plies, and guessed the number 7. The answer i got was "I usually like the clear ones" i asked about ambassador / emperor, as well as g1 / g2, he didnt seem to recognize exactly what i meant so i made it more universal and talked about plies. All nods and question marks above the head hehe....
I feel bad ranting about him because he is a really cool guy, and has some talent in drumming, just doesn't seem to have all the auxiliary knowledge to make him much better! However i wanted to touch on this subject of how forum surfing, for any amount of time, will remarkably set you ahead of the competition.
Now, i am requesting for other stories of some poor souls that you guys / gals have met who could have been a much better drummer with some aid and support from such a great community like we have here on the drummerworld forums.
If you've made it this far, thank you for reading all of my blabber!