Hi Guys,
To avoid any advanced advice, my son turns 12 next month. He played a drum pad 10 months, then got a full set about a year ago. He takes lessons and is working on rudimental solos, some simple independence exercises from syncopation or stick control (can't remember which), Tommy Igoe groove 5 or 6 (slow), and now some pieces that his school's jazz band is playing.
He's not playing the set parts for the jazz band. The kid on the drum set is 2 years older and apparently a decent drummer. My son has the charts just because he wants to be able to play those parts someday and his teacher is helping with that. In the actual band he's just playing some of the easy percussion parts now. It is great since its teaching him to keep time with others. (and I probably deserve a klondike bar since I've refrained from getting him a Gene Frenkle t-shirt.)
Lately he seems to want to learn to do fills, but I guess he doesn't want to ask his teacher about how. He just wants to learn by trying, and he is very frustrated by it right now. I read 10 or 12 threads on fills, but they were all responses to people asking how to improve their fills. I'm looking for the step before that. How does an 11 year old start learning to play fills? What's are the first exercises or steps?
To avoid any advanced advice, my son turns 12 next month. He played a drum pad 10 months, then got a full set about a year ago. He takes lessons and is working on rudimental solos, some simple independence exercises from syncopation or stick control (can't remember which), Tommy Igoe groove 5 or 6 (slow), and now some pieces that his school's jazz band is playing.
He's not playing the set parts for the jazz band. The kid on the drum set is 2 years older and apparently a decent drummer. My son has the charts just because he wants to be able to play those parts someday and his teacher is helping with that. In the actual band he's just playing some of the easy percussion parts now. It is great since its teaching him to keep time with others. (and I probably deserve a klondike bar since I've refrained from getting him a Gene Frenkle t-shirt.)
Lately he seems to want to learn to do fills, but I guess he doesn't want to ask his teacher about how. He just wants to learn by trying, and he is very frustrated by it right now. I read 10 or 12 threads on fills, but they were all responses to people asking how to improve their fills. I'm looking for the step before that. How does an 11 year old start learning to play fills? What's are the first exercises or steps?