How You Can Easily Decide On What To Practice Next

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Ok, and now? What to practice next?

I bet you’ve asked yourself this question before.

As a drummer, you can learn a LOT.

That’s awesome, but the amount of potential exercises might give you a hard time setting your next goal.

To help you out, I’m sharing a bunch of simple ways to find out what you can practice next on the drums.

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For Best Progress: How Long & How Often Practice Drums As A Beginner?

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How long should you practice the drums as a beginner?

And should you practice every day for best progress?

These are two frequently asked questions by drum beginners.

In this article, I’m going to answer both for you.

Let’s start off with this one:

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7 Easy Blues Drum Beats For Starters (+ Free Notes)

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Ah, Blues drum beats!

Wonderful grooves for a lovely music genre.

In this guide, you’ll learn 7 fun & easy beats.

The patterns are written in the 12/8 time signature (which is really popular in Blues!) and include

  • eighth notes
  • and pauses as well as
  • dotted quarter notes. (I will explain the dots later on.)

To start off, let’s take a glimpse at our 7 blues drum beats not only starters will have a blast learning.

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How To Count 8th Notes As A Drummer

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How do you count 8th notes as a drummer?

Great – and important – question!

In this article, I’m going to share my way of counting the common note value.

You’ll also learn how to count eighth rests.

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How Often You Should Practice Drums As A Beginner

How often practice drums as a beginner

Uhm … How often should I practice drums as a beginner?

That’s a question I get asked a lot.

So to help you out, I’ll answer it in this article.

Also, you’ll find some helpful tips to get the most out of your practice time.

Even if you’re a quite busy person:

You can still rock the drum set.

Yeah! 🙂

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Drumming For Beginners: 13 Lucky Tips You Wish Somebody Shared With You Earlier

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Drumming for beginners can be hard.

I mean, like really hard.

There’s just so much going on.

A lot to learn.

And a lot to suck at.

No wonder, why drumming for beginners – and not only them, trust me! – seems so hard.

Is there anything you can do to make learning to play the drums easier?

Glad you ask. 🙂

I’m sharing 13 lucky drumming tips with you.

Why are they lucky, you ask?

As they were a game changer for me, they certainly can do the trick for you as well.

To make it short:

My 13 tips will help you to get into drumming not only way easier, but also with more fun.

Also, the drumming tips for beginners are not in a special order or something.

Each of them can be a huge benefit for you.

Plus:

The tips I’m sharing in this article are based on my own drumming experience.

I’ve been making music for over 15 year, including teaching the drums and cajon since Friday the 13th September 2013.

See a pattern? 😉

So I know they work.

Not for somebody.

But for you.

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How To Master The Basics Of Linear Drumming Today

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Linear drumming is awesome! Basically, you play one instrument at the time.

This gives you a lot of freedom to experiment with great drum beats.

However, it could be a little overwhelming to find the right starting point for starting out with linear drumming.

So I wrote this easy guide to help you master the basics of this really cool way of playing the drums today.

But first, let’s answer this important question:

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My 9 Favorite Music Practice Strategies (Not Only For Drummers)

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Music practice strategies are gold worth. Why?

They drastically reduce your practice effort while maximizing your results.

It’s not about the what. It’s about the how.

If you follow music practice strategies, you’ll soon understand the importance of them.

So what are my top picks for you?

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You Want To Learn Sixteenth Notes On Drums? Here’s Your Guide!

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Sixteenth notes on drums?

Love them!

And I truly believe: You will as well.

For this reason, I made this comprehensive guide for beginners.

You’ll learn everything that you need to know about this lovely note value.

Ready? Let’s rock!

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