Beats are something you do; drumming is something you live. The drums don’t want you to be good at them. The world will throw every excuse at you not to practice or play drums. We have all heard the excuses, ‘Life gets in the way’ and ‘There’s always something else to do.’ If this game were easy, everyone would be a champion! It’s a daily challenge to step into the practice room and confront yourself. You are humbly confronting what you don’t know, or what you can’t do (yet). But we can turn this ritual of practice into the rhythm of practice. Consequently and over time, we’ll unleash our best selves through drumming. That magical day is not like winning the lottery, where we finally ‘get it’ and when everything magically clicks into place. Instead, it’s found in the stacking of hard won 1% gains. In this process we face […]

November 2022 Issue