Lately I have had a lot more time to practice and this summer I plan on really getting into it and practicing a ton, so I'm trying to see how I should structure my practice. How should I balance between books vs getting ideas directly from music? I've had John Ramsay's Alan Dawson book for a while now, and I plan on using it a lot, but I guess I'm worried that I will spend too much time on shedding the exercises in that book and not enough time learning directly listening to other drummers.
Obviously, jazz is largely an aural tradition, so I'm gonna be listening a lot and playing along to a lot of jazz, but I also want to get as much as I can out of the Alan Dawson book.
I'm sure that for most drummers, their practice time revolves around learning from music and learning from books, so I suppose the main variable is how each of us splits our time between the two.
Obviously, jazz is largely an aural tradition, so I'm gonna be listening a lot and playing along to a lot of jazz, but I also want to get as much as I can out of the Alan Dawson book.
I'm sure that for most drummers, their practice time revolves around learning from music and learning from books, so I suppose the main variable is how each of us splits our time between the two.