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[Zrow]

I don't really like making threads this general, but does anybody here play the drums? If you do, what kind of kit do you have, how long you have been playing, etc.

I've been playing the drums for eigh years or so, and I received my first drum set six years ago. I taught myself for a few years, but recently decided to start taking drumming lessons. My teacher is an absolute monster; he is the drummer for the Jimmy Van Zandt Band and tours around the country when not at home teaching. I've got a Premier Custom Maple set with a Pork Pie black steel (think Black Beauty type of thing) snare that I got this past Christmas. Cymbals are eh; I have a Zildjian Custom A Projection Crash, a Paiste Standard ride, some crappy high hats that I've had for six years. A few weeks ago I bought a Meinl steel bell, and a mounted tamborine that I've had for a while. I used to use 7A Pro Mark sticks exclusively, but I recently picked up some Vic Firth 5A's (plastic tip of course) and I like them a lot. Also, I use Evan's Hydraulic heads. That's about it, what about you?

 

[Dorifto]

Yamaha Pro Recording. Dad bought it in '77 for around 3 grand. I've been drumming since I was a little little kid.

 

[K_Speed]

Taking lessons for Drums is ****. Theres no point. All you gotta do I listen to some simple beats in hip hop songs, u really get the feeling real quick and build up youre own ideas.

My brothers been playing drums for 14 years now, and when I was younger I sometimes heard him play and I sometimes went in there to play. I was like 8 and younger. When i was 12 I went to make a concert with my keyboard (since I play it). It was like a music show where the people could see what kind of instruments there are. So I played a few songs on the keyboard with my partner. When I was done I went down to the Drums section and asked If I could play. And it all just flowed out of me, I had real cool beats, very quick ones. The guy and some other kids who had taken drums lessons asked me If I ever took any, and I said no. And they were very surprised.

Drums are all about the feeling, like other instruments of course. But the Piano is very difficult to learn and the guitar is also.

But as soon as u get the feeling for something u wont need lessons at all anymore.

 

[Zrow]

Originally posted by K_Speed
Taking lessons for Drums is ****. Theres no point. All you gotta do I listen to some simple beats in hip hop songs, u really get the feeling real quick and build up youre own ideas.

My brothers been playing drums for 14 years now, and when I was younger I sometimes heard him play and I sometimes went in there to play. I was like 8 and younger. When i was 12 I went to make a concert with my keyboard (since I play it). It was like a music show where the people could see what kind of instruments there are. So I played a few songs on the keyboard with my partner. When I was done I went down to the Drums section and asked If I could play. And it all just flowed out of me, I had real cool beats, very quick ones. The guy and some other kids who had taken drums lessons asked me If I ever took any, and I said no. And they were very surprised.

Drums are all about the feeling, like other instruments of course. But the Piano is very difficult to learn and the guitar is also.

But as soon as u get the feeling for something u wont need lessons at all anymore.

How wrong you are. Lessons work out different techniques and your individual limbs. I can tell you that I am a much better player for taking lessons, and you would be too. Trust me, you are wrong, wrong, wrong on this. It doesn't matter if you can play a few cool hip hop beats, can you play different latin rhythms? Would you know how? How flexible are you on the drums stylewise? Do you know your rudiments, and are you proficient at them? Can you keep a solid tempo for a whole song? Can you work out your different limbs interdependantly? Ask any accomplished drummer in the entire world, they will tell you that lessons benefit immensely. You obviously don't know too much about drumming if you think its just getting the feeling and playing hip hop beats. May I suggest Mark Chapin's Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer?

 

[K_Speed]

Well if I say beat its not just a hip hop beat, a beat is a beat.
Yes and the latin ideas and stuff, you learn that stuff with the years. There are also so many vids of people that show u some techniques if you need some hints.
I play back beats now, on my Synthesizer with my fingers that I hear in songs, then when I sit down on a drum-wich doesnt happen very often- its simple to play that beat, and I just keep playing and playing and playing. And no its not really simple, its hard to figure out at the start. And I can play em long enough until my arm start to hurt and my feet get tired.

the beats and patterns Ive learned from songs:

The Prodigy - Firestarter
The Prodigy - Breathe
The Prodigy - Poison
System of a down - Chop Suey (partly, still learnin)
Metallica - dont know what the song is called


Yes and im not a hip hop fan, just a few songs....
Im more of an Electronic Person with fast and complex beats (not boom boom crap, u know what I mean) and punk.

I think in my oppinion and my brothers that lessons are good for the starting point of drumming, but I never had that point really, I just played, and now im playing very good, getting my own stuff done, and im composing my own songs now and puttin em Online. I just need a drum machine to hook to my Workstatoin and Synth....

great fun

 

[humbo]

I've been playing drums for a bit more than 3 and a half years, but I stopped playing a while ago because my crash symbol was cracking, and overall the drums started to sound like crap. I started learning to play the guitar instead now, but I want to go back to drums, because after a while away from the drums I went back and I was so crappy, and I don't want to lose all the stuff that I learned.