CLASSIC DRUM LESSONS BY RUWAN LIYANAGE

# Listen good music

# Feel & taste

# Make it yours

# Mind training

# Practice

# Play what you feel

# Amazing new beats & breaks

# Trends & Styles

# Develop your own style

# Successful Drumming Secrets

Hi, Playing classic drums is famous and most thrilling hobby for many people. It also develops your skills in a proper way with relaxing your mind.

Playing drums is not only a very good way to relax your mind, but also it releases high level of pressure forced by your job or other reasons. Remember, successful drummer always enjoys his playing.

# Listen good music

Good player always a good listener. Listening best makes you thinking best, and playing best. Listen different styles of music. And choose whats best for you. I think it's better to learn drums in natural way, instead of traditional drum training, which deliver you much satisfaction.

If you are novice in drumming, then choose a song you most like and listen it few times carefully. Try to identify the beat played by the drummer. give your attention to what the drummer plays. It's much better if you can see visualized music with an visible drummer.  Once you got noticed what the drummer plays, it's much easier to imitate it.

# Feel & taste

Listen only what you feel better. Do not go for fast or too slow music at first. it's ok you select few songs you like much. Remember, you are going to play what you feel. Not drum notes.

# Make it yours

Again, listen chosen music better & make it something belongs to you. Like any other thing, you are achieving what you likes.

# Mind training

It's not essential a drum kit for your training at first. Because your mind starts to play when you feel good music you like. That's why we need mind training before the muscle training.You can get an idea of an normal setup of a drum kit as follows.

It's no laws applied to setting up a drum kit. But most right handed players uses this setup.  It looks like a bit challenge at the beginning to use all your two hands and two foots to play the drum kit. Ok. get the challenge, because there are no successful drummers who avoided challenges. but face it neatly.

It's not necessary to play all your arms at the beginning. Let's identify how your body is to be fitted to the drum kit!

Ok. as assuming you are right handed person, following is the arrangement for your very first drum lesson.

Right Foot :     Bass Drum Pedal
Left Foot:     Hi-hat Pedal (Pressed)
Left Hand:    Snare Drum
Right Hand:    Hi-Hat

If you have no drum kit, lets imagine one with you. Memorize the sound of each instrument relative to each your hands or foots, in following order.

Hi hat (Right Hand)
Bass drum (Right Foot)
Snare drum (Left hand)

Now train your mind to memorize the sound of each instrument as soon as you memorize the one of your hands or right foot. Once you got that, proceed to next.

# Practice

take a seat and put your left hand on right knee, and right hand on left knee. now you are ready for the first lesson.

stroke your right hand in constant tempo on your left knee. Count each stroke from 1 to 4. go some slow and comfort.

 when you are able to do this without much effort, stroke your right foot once when you say "1" and "3".  that means when you stroke two from your right hand, your right foot strokes once. Keep the practice till you get comfort with it.

Now you can use your left hand (Snare) to stroke once you say "3". Keep the practice till you are able to play it without counting and you can play it without much effort.

Note: All the next lessons will be listed at the bottom of this article

# Play what you feel

With the practice and experience, you can move from practicing mind to feeling mind. Do not copy any player but get what useful from them.

Yes, there is a period most players play without considering the meaning or feeling of a song, just need to play drums hardy. But try to keep this period personal, and not in front of audience. With the experience, you will find that recording what you playing and listening helps to polish your playing style. That is why I said that listen and feel the song before you taking the sticks to your hands.

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