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Welcome

(as published on www.411drums.com) by Jacob Kaye

  Welcome to "our" School of Drumming/ musicianship (Yes, make no doubt about it; we must be musicians to an even greater extent than other instrumentalists!). I assure you with all certainty that you will find your music lessons to be both: musically challenging and rewarding by adhering to the advice I'll give you. Whether you are beginning an entry level of instruction, intermediate level, or advanced level, my goal is to provide music instruction that will help you develop as a "well-rounded" better performer, yes better, both as an individual and as part of a musical group. During your lessons, I'll give you specific guidance to help you develop your skills. You should find the following general advice essential in helping you develop productive practice sessions.

ESSENTIAL ADVICE ON PRACTISING

•  DAILY SESSIONS - The most effective way of developing long-lasting skills and expanding these "tools", (which you will require to exceed your perceived-potential), is through daily sessions. "Practice marathons" and "cramming" before lessons will far from resolve the musical "challenges" you may have neglected during the week and result in what some refer to as "maintenance-practise".

•  PARENTS - This is a Great Opportunity!!! for you to get involved with your younger children. They will really need your help and guidance to motivate them in developing the "Habit of Practising"...which is one of the keys to their success!!!

•  "ONE-A-DAY"- Spend enough time on each page to include all supplementary exercises assigned for your music lessons, every day. I advise you to begin each session with a good progressive warm-up routine. Then, depending upon your level, the next step should be utilizing an established reading text to further develop the "tools" you'll need to Improve Reading. Last but not least, for drum set, each day, use a text for Independence Techniques. This will depend on your skill level at the time.

•  FOCUS - Focus your efforts on the techniques, the "tools", you'll be taught to help you achieve your goals. Avoid wasting time learning the here-today-gone-tomorrow, "Impressive Patterns/ Solos" on the drum set! If you need to work on the snare drum, for example, move it out, away from the rest of the drum set in order to avoid any temptation to play the drum set. You must, with certainty, use a practice pad for technique work. (Here, at the very least, a metronome is essential!)

•  THE PARTICULARS - Make every effort, with absolute surety that you are performing the music according to the author's/ composer's intentions; rather than a perceived desire on your part for it to be performed any other way. Read more...