Many people never realize their life through rhythm by unknowingly skipping steps. I get it, this is how I started too! I was eager to get right to bashing out the joyful roar I was hearing from my drumming heroes. From day one I wanted to jump right to the beats I loved and start banging away. But I got frustrated fast, suffering blisters and wrist cramps because I didn’t know what I was doing. It’s easy to quit at this point thinking, ‘I wasn’t born with drumming DNA’, or, ‘I don’t have the coordination.’ Worse yet, following the traditional lesson path we can get buried in books with the old school approach, growing more frustrated. This is the information dump approach to learning, trying to take it all in at once. Becoming a ‘content zombie’ is NOT learning. Hoarding facts is worthless without the spark of action. If it […]

June 2023 Issue