drummingman
Gold Member
I started a thread awhile back about remembering ones own created drum parts for original songs. I'd like to revisit that topic in this new thread.
It takes me forever for some reason to remember my drum parts. I do write eveything down note for note so I can always read it until I commit it to memory. I do wonder, on average, how long it takes most people to commit complex drum parts to memory? Does anyone know what strategies people like Vinnie Colaiuta, Mike Portnoy, or Dave Weckel use to quickly and efficiently commit complex drum parts to memory in as short a time as possible?
What I have been doing is breaking everything down into 3 or 4 ir 6 bar phrases and repeating the phrase over and over. I do this all the way through the whole song. Then after that I go back and run the whole song from start to finish. I do all this very slowly and Im reading all the notes as I do it. So far this has been the best strategy I've found when practicing by myself with no other music to be able to get the parts in my head. But it still seems like it does not stay in there as well as I would like. So Im always looking for better ways of getting things to stay in my memory to where I don't have to read it while Im playing a song.
It takes me forever for some reason to remember my drum parts. I do write eveything down note for note so I can always read it until I commit it to memory. I do wonder, on average, how long it takes most people to commit complex drum parts to memory? Does anyone know what strategies people like Vinnie Colaiuta, Mike Portnoy, or Dave Weckel use to quickly and efficiently commit complex drum parts to memory in as short a time as possible?
What I have been doing is breaking everything down into 3 or 4 ir 6 bar phrases and repeating the phrase over and over. I do this all the way through the whole song. Then after that I go back and run the whole song from start to finish. I do all this very slowly and Im reading all the notes as I do it. So far this has been the best strategy I've found when practicing by myself with no other music to be able to get the parts in my head. But it still seems like it does not stay in there as well as I would like. So Im always looking for better ways of getting things to stay in my memory to where I don't have to read it while Im playing a song.