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What To Do When You Lose Motivation To Drum

You begin to doubt yourself

Maybe everyone was right. Maybe you're wasting your time. Maybe you're no good at anything. You wonder if you'll ever be able to play like your heroes.

Does this sound familiar? I've felt like this a lot with my drumming and it's not a good place to be.

Fortunately, there are things you can do to get your motivation back.

Here are 6 of the best things that will get you back into the drumming groove again.

To start with, the most important thing is:

Don't panic

It's totally normal for your motivation to rise and fall. Just realise that it's a temporary phase and that you will get through it. Try your best at this time to...

Make a commitment

You need to be honest with yourself: When I first started out I convinced myself that I had stopped practising because I was feeling unmotivated. But in reality what happened was that I stopped practising, so I stopped getting better which made me feel unmotivated. Make a commitment to practise for even just 5 minutes a day. Making even a little progress is better than none at all. It is still sending you in the right direction. At this stage you also need to...

Immerse yourself in music

Get out and go to as many gigs as you can. Travel to festivals, big stadium gigs, small club gigs, see your friends play... even just get out to the small bar round the corner where the jazz guys play on a sunday night. See everything that you can and you'll remember why you fell in love with drumming in the first place. While you're out seeing bands, make sure that you also...

Make new friends

Seek out people who are already doing want you want to do. Just making contact and being around them makes you realise that its not as difficult as you think. Gigs, music shops are always good places to meet other musicians. But you don't even have to leave the house! Use Twitter, Facebook or grab someone's email from their website and get in touch. Musicians are a social bunch of people. If you find it difficult to get in touch with who you want then you can always just...

Read books

Auto-biographies are great. You'll find out that all your heroes will have gone through similar periods to how you are feeling just now. Even Rocky Balboa has doubted himself at some points. Of course, if none of this works you could always...

Just quit

Maybe this one won't be helpful to you but think about it: what's the worst that could happen if you do quit? Either you'll move on and find something else that you enjoy more or you'll come back to drumming with a bigger motivation than ever. Whatever happens, you can't lose.

These tips have all helped me out at some point. If you find them useful, let me know by hitting the "Tweet This" button at the bottom of the article.

Alexander

What do you think? Maybe you use these tips already? Maybe you have some of your own to add?

Leave your thoughts and wisdom in the comments below.

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