What To Do When You Lose Motivation To Drum
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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...
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50 Killer Drum Tracks You Should Listen To
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The 50th Article from MakeDrumWork.com
This post is a huge milestone so I really wanted to make it special for you.
I decided to collect 50 of the best songs for drumming.
I'll be honest: I got stuck pretty quick.
But instead of giving up, I asked people who are smarter than me for help.
So what follows are the suggestions of my cool, clever, beautiful friends on Twitter and
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The 7 Reasons Why I Blog About Drumming
It's good to drum. Photo: neate photos
A friends of mine is thinking about starting his own blog and it got me thinking about the reasons why I blog. So after a bit of reflection, here are my top 7 reasons why I blog about drumming.
I love drumming
I've been playing for 13 years now and I love it now more than ever. It's what I do, it's who I am. I love the excitement of nailing a new groove; the way my sticks bounce on a pad; that it makes me stand out from other people. I'm more excited about it now than I ever have been!
To help you out
I know what it's like when you first start out drumming; or when you've been playing for a while and you're not getting anywhere; or
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The Progress Plateau - This Is Why You Keep Giving Up
Ayers Rock Plateau. Photo Credit: Palentour
You're on top of the world
You've just learned something new, you're ecstatic, you're on a roll, you're making great progress, you're psyched to be practising every day. You couldn't be happier.
Then all of a sudden you stop getting better and you stay at the same level for a long time and then you actually start to get worse. Sound familiar? What happened? Want went wrong?
Congratulations! You just
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How To Use The Explicit Part Of Your Mind To Become A Better Drummer
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Sadly, there's no swearing, sex or violence in this article
It's all about understanding your psychology, hacking into different parts of your brain and using it to your advantage to become a better drummer.
Basically, your memory is split into 2 sections and each section stores different types of information.
Explicit memory
In this sense, the word explicit means to make something clear or visible. The explicit part of your brain is used for
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The 4 Stages You MUST Pass Through To Become The Drummer You Dream Of
Climb Up. Photo credit: Sara. Nel
The view's better at the top
...but how do you get there? How do you learn to do something? How do you learn to do anything? These are big questions. When you know the answers, you will truly be unstoppable.
Knowing how to play stuff on the drums is cool but learning new things consistently over a long period of time is what will set you apart from the other drummers that you know.
Before we look at the 4 stages, lets quickly cover some definitions that we'll be using:
- Conscious: You are aware of something.
- Unconscious: You are unaware of something.
- Competence: You are good at something
- Incompetence: You are bad at something.
So, how you do learn anything? You MUST pass through these 4 stages:
Stage 1 - Unconscious Incompetence
Put it this way: You suck at drumming and you don't even know it. You don't know what you're doing. You don't know how to get better because you don't even realise that you can get better.
Drummers at this stage are
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The 3 Things Monopoly Has Taught Me About Drumming
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I usually win at Monopoly. In fact I've only ever lost a couple times in my whole life.
I'm not ashamed to admit that recently I've used Google to find different techniques on how to win. A lot of the techniques I found were ones that I had already used before.
But what surprised me the most was that I don't always use those techniques and I've actually won against people who have used them on me.
So I really got to thinking about why I keeping winning at Monopoly because if I could figure it out then maybe I might be able to figure out how to win at everything else in my life.
Here are the 3 things that I reckon are
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10 Things That Will Explode Your Drumming - Your Fingers
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Your fingers are very important.
The front of your grip is formed when you pinch the stick between your index finger and thumb. The back of your grip is formed when you close your other 3 fingers (middle, third and pinky) around the stick. These fingers help guide the stick and make sure it doesn't fly off in any unwanted direction.
Taking these fingers off the stick is the surest way to lose control of what you're doing. If your other 3 fingers are not on the stick, then you get half the control over the stick that you should be getting. Half the control! Thats like
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The Musician’s Most Important Skill Pt. 2
You couldn't get enough of my last great instant coffee recipe! So here's another gem for you to show my appreciation. This one is courtesy of Stuart Hamilton of ManAlive Studios. Watch their great videos and tell your friends. In this video post we're looking at something a little bit special... the latte. Get ready because we're about to do something that many people think is impossible. A lot like getting paid to play the drums. But you can do it. Just follow 3 simple rules:
Never complicate things
There's no need to get fancy because basically
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