What do you say to a five year old who says they are bored and they don't like playing the drums?
It happened to me for the first time the other day at a music school I was teaching in. It really put a downer on my day especially because I can't see a way to make this kid enjoy the drums.
He has always been hard to keep on task. Constantly asking him to "try your best to finish this line".
I even stopped doing conventional lessons, and just got him to imitate me on the drums, and even on the congas... I did single stroke rolls with my hands on congas with easy and fun sounding accent patters.... too hard for him... he didn't see the point.
to get a little bit of fun out of the drums it takes a little talent and perseverance, but if a student has no concept of why people play the drums or what you can accomplish by playing them, they won't work on anything, especially if their personality is not one that is willing to just be told what to do.
This kid doesn't want to learn, I have tried for months now. What else can I do?
I don't want to say to his parents don't come back here until he is older, but if he keeps at this rate I will definitely put him off the drums for life and potentially ruin drumming for someone who might have later took a shining to it.
It happened to me for the first time the other day at a music school I was teaching in. It really put a downer on my day especially because I can't see a way to make this kid enjoy the drums.
He has always been hard to keep on task. Constantly asking him to "try your best to finish this line".
I even stopped doing conventional lessons, and just got him to imitate me on the drums, and even on the congas... I did single stroke rolls with my hands on congas with easy and fun sounding accent patters.... too hard for him... he didn't see the point.
to get a little bit of fun out of the drums it takes a little talent and perseverance, but if a student has no concept of why people play the drums or what you can accomplish by playing them, they won't work on anything, especially if their personality is not one that is willing to just be told what to do.
This kid doesn't want to learn, I have tried for months now. What else can I do?
I don't want to say to his parents don't come back here until he is older, but if he keeps at this rate I will definitely put him off the drums for life and potentially ruin drumming for someone who might have later took a shining to it.