The Drumming Tree - By Jared Falk

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I created The Drumming Tree as an illustration to show students why it's important to have a solid foundation of theory and technique. Once you have this, you can literally learn anything you want on the drums.

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Great idea for a series Jared! Focusing on our weaknesses as opposed to playing all of our strengths is the key to mastery on the kit.

JeffRandallDrumming

Thank you Jared! I thought I was a drummer, having played for years, but with the proliferation of Youtube and all the great drum instruction I came to the realization there is much to learn. Problem is trying to figure out where to start with this deluge of disconnected information. Looking forward to watching the "tree" grow. Thanks again

johnnyappleseed

wow this is the best drumming lessons ive ever seen right on....

tolow

There's some really stupid stuff about learning drums coming from internet teachers, who treat this like a combination of school and workout. To that I say no. If you're at a low point in the learning process for an instrument, you might want to hear me out.

There's no schematic "building up" in learning an instrument. NO ONE goes into learning drums thinking "oh yeah, I'm so pumped to play these quarter note hihat foot-snare-foot-snare beats at 60 bpm" or anything of that sort.

When you get your drums you already know music, because that's why you've picked the instrument up. You sit down, you put on one of your favourite bands on your headphones and you try to follow them.
Obviously, it doesn't work, and it's YOUR task to figure out - with help, most preferably - why that is. It's you who feels the pain in their wrist if you suck. It's you who knows why you didn't manage to play something at the correct time.
The teachers are there to show you a way that you can see working and help you, but nothing more. They are called what they are, but it's wrong. YOU ARE THE TEACHER.

You shouldn't feel obliged to play a certain excercise a certain amount of times each week, you shouldn't feel bad for doing something differently that most of the proffessionals advise you to do. People playing in orchestras apparently think hitting the center of a drum is an error. Many drummers say it's how you have to play. Others are jazz musicians with their snares tilted in a 40 degree angle towards one of their arms and don't give a fuss about all the standards because they need to be able to play well and do what they have to to reach a certain level of efficiency and they just do it.

Of course, you can make mistakes during your learning process, it might even put you back a vast amount of time back because it turns out that your basic techniques are in some way defective. That's why there are people like Jared who are supposed to not only tell you how they do it, but also why it works. If you can't reach a certain bpm and it's apparent that your technique is the cause of that, it's not because you hold the sticks in a way different than Jared, it's because your way sucks and his, among many, many others, works. For him, at the very least.

Another thing is excercises. If you watch a video that includes an excercise you think is annoying to do, it IS a WASTE OF TIME. You won't be able to learn anything properly if you do it out of the mere feel of obligation. You need to want to do it, because an instrument should never be something you want to just live off of. It's a way to express yourself and there's no way you're going to be able to do that if you force it upon yourself. In short, it's supposed to be fun.

You don't need to learn everything. Drummers who are perfectly rounded in the sense of skill are BORING. You know why your favourite drummer seems so awesome to you? It's because it's himself. He doesn't imitate some guy on the internet, he doesn't worry about techniques he doesn't use, he is good at what he wants to do and does it.

You, yourself, are propably going in with a more or less particular image of yourself in the future. You want to play insanely fast jazz, insanely fast metal, complicated progressive rock or anything else. You don't have to stick to a genre though, just imagine yourself on stage (or in a studio if that's what you feel the most excited about or where you see your own future) in different scenarios. How does your fill sound in your imagination? What are you doing that's the most impressive to the crowd watching you with admiration? What are you thinking about just then, etc, etc, etc.

Don't be a drummer, be a metal, jazz, pop, funk, PURPOSEFUL drummer. Try to be what you want to be. The road is a long one and it's bumpy as a train going off the tracks, but you can make it pretty amusing and get anywhere you want with it, because you don't follow the road, you set it yourself.

Nearing the end, I want you to also keep in mind that I'm not saying online or in-real life teaching is wrong, that there's anything wrong with educating yourself through someone's experience, but it's very important to have experience of your own and try a massive amount of different things to understand your instrument and body. So yeah, go learn music theory for other instruments than the one you play, if you're an aspiring drummer try using different grips, try playing in odd tempos, try playing over 220 bpm, try different styles of playing and everything that comes to your mind, but only if you really want it. There is material and people out there to help you in trying stuff though and the more education from more people you get the better.

PS. There's one thing that virtually every drummer should do that I don't think is emphasised enough. You are told not to keep your snare below your knees for a good reason. For the same kind of reason I heavily advise you to, no matter where you are in your drumming career, forget your body limit of having a dominant hand. Learn to play everything you can with your hand roles switched, because that's what gets most people stuck later on.

Good luck.

Mezurashii

I taught myself aswell, I just picked up the drums about 2 years ago. I did play trumpet for 8 years prior to that and musical talents runs in the family, so it feel like it comes natural to me. I'm trying my best to learn new things, just from observing, watching youtube videos basically. Check you my drumming vids and tell me what u guys think :)

UMO

The secret method to getting better at the drums fast; PRACTICE. That's it. Actually putting time in practising things YOU CAN'T YET DO - Not things you're already good at. Keep a practice log, make goals, practice daily and it's impossible not to improve, sorry if some people wanted a magic solution.

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