3/27/2023 0 Comments 8bit drummer come get some![]() ![]() Third… and I am sure you could guess this one… I LOVE DRUMMING! It is my favorite hobby and I am so happy that I have the chance to play for others! I want to learn new genres of music and to become much more versatile in the styles that I can play. Jesus rocks and He is where my love comes from! My goal is for everyone that comes into the stream to leave in a better place than before due to interacting with me. I am a Christian and I want people to know what love truly is. Second, I want to show and spread love to as many people as I can. That is why I am so thankful for the success that I have had with this stream! I love the fact that I can share my time with others, meet new people and put a smile on their face, all while getting more proficient with my favorite instrument. I am an energetic, loud, and joy loving dude that has been playing drums for over a decade now!įirst, I have always wanted to influence people in a positive way. Scales are one tool that serve that same purpose.Welcome everyone! My name is Jerod aka The8BitDrummer. "Play the song good" isn't always the goal, the song itself is often simply a means to work on something else. Just like playing a song by ear, from memory, or reading it from a sheet is about practicing totally different skills. Each of these is working on a different part of playing. The more you learn, the more you'll learn about applying these methods to not only your practice, but in how you create music. Get better at learning your fretboard and expanding your range outside of your comfort zone? Play multi-octave scales, starting with a different finger, or from a different position. Want to improve your speed and accuracy? Play scales at a higher tempo against a metronome. In the end what you'll realize is how you're using each of these things as tools to always be working on multiple things. When I get bored of something is usually when I'm either no longer being challenged or becoming frustrated, and that's also a sign that you're not learning much and should do something else. If you find that you're not devoting any time to the simpler exercises or have areas that need work, you can set a mandatory minimum time for yourself, but I find for myself it's often not needed. Because in all likelihood you're going to start to get ideas and want to act on them. How much of each to play? Well, try to at least get through one full run of each, but beyond that move on when you're getting bored or start feeling antsy to break out of the box and play around with what you've been working on. ![]() ![]() While Bellson is a classic text that will teach you to play just about any rhythm, you can find tons of similar rhythmic exercises all over the place online as well.Įxchange the metronome for a drum track and use the scale as a base to start improvising from. Play through the scale at a moderate pace and using a metronome with an even rhythm just to get it under your fingers and warm up.Īpply the scale to a rhythm exercise. Now you're really working things out! And as you go along, you'll be in better shape to start noodling around and jamming to a drum track as you've already been doing. Take that scale and start running through it with the rhythms given. But instead apply the numerous exercises in this book. Maybe while using a metronome to work on two things at once. Which, if you're like most of us probably means plodding through eighth or quarter notes at a steady pace. So, how do you apply this to your scales? By combining the two. Just 100 pages of endless staff with almost no text and absolutely no melody. This is a book written by a drummer and it's purpose is to get you better at working with rhythm. Because while it's technically written in bass clef every single note is just E. That's what that "for all instruments" subtitle is about. What is it? Well, it's all rhythm for one thing. It was first published in 1963 and is still widely used. One thing I picked up from a former instructor is the classic book Modern Reading Text in 4/4 by Louis Bellson. ![]()
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