Hello everyone!
Before I ask my question(s), here's a little bit of back story. Feel free to skip it if you want to, as it has no importance to anyone but me, actually :D
I've always had a kind of a fascination with drums. Right from when I was a wee little lad sitting in front of the television, watching music videos on local music channels and watching VHS tapes with MTV music videos on them (I got them from a friend whose father was in a band). I always seemed to focus on the drummer. While everybody else was just kind of standing around with their guitars and synths, only using their hands, the drummer always went wildly along with the song and looked really badass beating that kit :D I also seem to solely focus on the drums when listening to rock music, drowning out all other instruments as just a distant background noise.
For a long time now, I've wanted to play drums, or, well, at least try. So I had an opportunity to play at a student convention for like 15 minutes, where they taught me the most basic rock beat. I was hooked. From that point on, I started watching drumming videos on Youtube, started reading up on drum hardware, etc... I have a friend who plays bass (he's a beginner) who said that maybe I should get a drum kit and we could play together. So I did. My friend's dad works in our school as management. He basically lets us have anything we want from the tech storage rooms for absolutely free. Once anything is stashed there, it sits there for about 25 years and then gets scrapped. So he's quite happy to give us anything from there (and I've got some decent gear, too) as he knows that we have a use for it, and it saves him room and time, since he doesn't have to go through the trouble of scrapping that stuff. So one day he told me that my friend had said that I'm interested in drumming, and they have and old drum set left over that they don't use and I could have it for free. As it turned out later, the kit was absolutely trashed. It was an old Scott Percussion set (generic probably) with missing hardware, only one cymbal, a broken Meinl crash, heads that had been punctured and taped many times, and some more minor bits missing. Luckily I had a bit of money saved up so I bought new heads, new hardware, a PST 3 ride and some vintage, absolutely terrible soviet hi-hats (they were REALLY cheap), and I was ready to go. All in all, it came to a total of about 300€ with most of the parts being bottom of the barrel quality (Millenium heads and hardware, not too bad actually), but I'm happy with it. I will replace the ride, as it is hideously cracked and has a chunk of it missing (original crash from Scott set) and hi-hats, because they sound like rusty tin cans being mashed together. I also need a drummer throne as I'm currently sitting atop a PA speaker and a stack of books.
TL;DR I like drums and I have a set.
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I've only had a few hours of total play time, and I know some basic beats and can play "Seven Nation Army" which is like the easiest drum song ever. But some thing about drumming just seem so much harder than I initially thought. Like coordination. TBH, I'm not a guy with excellent coordination. I'ts not like I trip over my own legs or can't even walk, but I don't have the coordination that even most beginner drummers can do. I can kind of do 3 way coordination, but 4 way just seems so impossible. Also speed. How do people play so fast?! I don't mean 200bpm stuff, but just moving very quickly form one drum to another? And how do you put a quick drum beat between two hat beats? Like in Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks" where there are two fast bass beats in the main beat.
I'm sorry I'm a total noob but I just can't comprehend the fact that people are able to learn this. How long does it take before I can start playing even simple songs such as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" fluently? I don't have a drum teacher or anything, and can't afford one. Plus I live in a somewhat remote area. So all I can do as far as learning goes is either Youtube or figure it out myself. I just want to know how far does it take for the average person to learn drums? I don't mean jazz and other super complex genres, just rock.
I don't want to get frustrated with myself, I want to play. But I'm not the most musically talented person on this planet.
Thanks for taking the time to read and sorry for my poor English! :)
-Joel
Before I ask my question(s), here's a little bit of back story. Feel free to skip it if you want to, as it has no importance to anyone but me, actually :D
I've always had a kind of a fascination with drums. Right from when I was a wee little lad sitting in front of the television, watching music videos on local music channels and watching VHS tapes with MTV music videos on them (I got them from a friend whose father was in a band). I always seemed to focus on the drummer. While everybody else was just kind of standing around with their guitars and synths, only using their hands, the drummer always went wildly along with the song and looked really badass beating that kit :D I also seem to solely focus on the drums when listening to rock music, drowning out all other instruments as just a distant background noise.
For a long time now, I've wanted to play drums, or, well, at least try. So I had an opportunity to play at a student convention for like 15 minutes, where they taught me the most basic rock beat. I was hooked. From that point on, I started watching drumming videos on Youtube, started reading up on drum hardware, etc... I have a friend who plays bass (he's a beginner) who said that maybe I should get a drum kit and we could play together. So I did. My friend's dad works in our school as management. He basically lets us have anything we want from the tech storage rooms for absolutely free. Once anything is stashed there, it sits there for about 25 years and then gets scrapped. So he's quite happy to give us anything from there (and I've got some decent gear, too) as he knows that we have a use for it, and it saves him room and time, since he doesn't have to go through the trouble of scrapping that stuff. So one day he told me that my friend had said that I'm interested in drumming, and they have and old drum set left over that they don't use and I could have it for free. As it turned out later, the kit was absolutely trashed. It was an old Scott Percussion set (generic probably) with missing hardware, only one cymbal, a broken Meinl crash, heads that had been punctured and taped many times, and some more minor bits missing. Luckily I had a bit of money saved up so I bought new heads, new hardware, a PST 3 ride and some vintage, absolutely terrible soviet hi-hats (they were REALLY cheap), and I was ready to go. All in all, it came to a total of about 300€ with most of the parts being bottom of the barrel quality (Millenium heads and hardware, not too bad actually), but I'm happy with it. I will replace the ride, as it is hideously cracked and has a chunk of it missing (original crash from Scott set) and hi-hats, because they sound like rusty tin cans being mashed together. I also need a drummer throne as I'm currently sitting atop a PA speaker and a stack of books.
TL;DR I like drums and I have a set.
Read from here:
I've only had a few hours of total play time, and I know some basic beats and can play "Seven Nation Army" which is like the easiest drum song ever. But some thing about drumming just seem so much harder than I initially thought. Like coordination. TBH, I'm not a guy with excellent coordination. I'ts not like I trip over my own legs or can't even walk, but I don't have the coordination that even most beginner drummers can do. I can kind of do 3 way coordination, but 4 way just seems so impossible. Also speed. How do people play so fast?! I don't mean 200bpm stuff, but just moving very quickly form one drum to another? And how do you put a quick drum beat between two hat beats? Like in Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks" where there are two fast bass beats in the main beat.
I'm sorry I'm a total noob but I just can't comprehend the fact that people are able to learn this. How long does it take before I can start playing even simple songs such as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" fluently? I don't have a drum teacher or anything, and can't afford one. Plus I live in a somewhat remote area. So all I can do as far as learning goes is either Youtube or figure it out myself. I just want to know how far does it take for the average person to learn drums? I don't mean jazz and other super complex genres, just rock.
I don't want to get frustrated with myself, I want to play. But I'm not the most musically talented person on this planet.
Thanks for taking the time to read and sorry for my poor English! :)
-Joel
How hard is it to start playing well?
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