Be present in your practice
NOTE: THE EXERCISE VIDEO IS AT END OF BLOG POST
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“Learn the rules like a pro so that you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso.
Learning “the rules” can be a tedious and even an overwhelming task.
Most of us fall in love with an instrument and want to be a musician because of the allure of the unknown.
In the beginning, we sit behind the kit, perhaps trying each sound individually to get a sense of what we have to "paint" with. We try a tom, then a cymbal, then a couple of bass drum hits, followed by closing the hi-hat with the left foot a few times. The magic of the instrument is pulling us in. The fascination with doing something that requires all the limbs takes over our entire being.
Maybe, in the beginning, you wanted to play a beat. Something from the music that you listened to that made you fall in love with the instrument in the first place. Maybe you just wanted to experiment with the sounds, textures,...
Episode 58
Last week we talked about inspiration and how it's not necessarily the most important thing for getting down to business. Of course, we love inspiration. It puts us in a space where we can create, where we have extra energy that we can focus on making something happen — getting down to work, really getting down to business. But inspiration is not always readily available.
Sometimes we have a day where we want to procrastinate and not do anything. Those are the days that we talked about last week, where we have to get down to the practice room and do anything. Not something from your list, not something from your books, not something from what you've been working on, but just sitting down and playing. Just sit down and play. You are mindlessly playing.
And in that act, things will start to come back. Things begin to develop into a structure again. So sometimes it's good just to leave the structure behind and be free and play. But when...
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The DrumMantra Practice System
All of the exercises, lessons, and courses herein are specifically designed to target and cross-train the Six Key Elements of DrumMantra:
Time - Reading -Coordination - Polymeters - Phrasing - Groove.
