I play drums. I first learned by playing Rockband, the game, and then continued on from there. If I become famous, I condone the use of this excuse: "But this dude got famous cuz videogames", by all children whose parents bother them about video games.
Since Rockband was my first teacher, guess what kind of drumming I learned first! Rock drumming, that's what. Rock drumming is characterized by snare drum on 2 and 4 of the measure, with an 8th note hi-hat metronome going. This basic idea kept me busy for the first 2 years of my drumming career. Then I realized that I could do new, much doper things on drums, like crazy breakbeats and funky ish. I'm good at all this now, leaving the last and most daunting type of drumming to be learned: Jazz.
Now I'm here in jazz band class writing this blog, slowly coming to the conclusion that I'm lost while playing jazz music on drums. This is because jazz music requires so much more limb independence than all the other types of music. You gotta keep the "ching chacha ching" going on your right hand, and you gotta keep the 2 and 4 on your left foot, all while your left hand and right leg do random stuff on the snare and bass. It's absurd.
Along with trying to get good at jazz drumming, I'm attempting to learn piano, and thats even more insane.
This brings me to my primary questions. Is there anyone out there who has mastered the art of limb independence? What is the trick? Is there even a trick beyond just to practice a lot?
Limb independence and things like multitasking, for example, I feel go hand in hand when it comes to what parts of your brain are being used. It seems like smart people are good at multitasking, and it really seems like smart people are good at piano, is this mere coincidence? I think naught. what do YOU think?
Since Rockband was my first teacher, guess what kind of drumming I learned first! Rock drumming, that's what. Rock drumming is characterized by snare drum on 2 and 4 of the measure, with an 8th note hi-hat metronome going. This basic idea kept me busy for the first 2 years of my drumming career. Then I realized that I could do new, much doper things on drums, like crazy breakbeats and funky ish. I'm good at all this now, leaving the last and most daunting type of drumming to be learned: Jazz.
Now I'm here in jazz band class writing this blog, slowly coming to the conclusion that I'm lost while playing jazz music on drums. This is because jazz music requires so much more limb independence than all the other types of music. You gotta keep the "ching chacha ching" going on your right hand, and you gotta keep the 2 and 4 on your left foot, all while your left hand and right leg do random stuff on the snare and bass. It's absurd.
Along with trying to get good at jazz drumming, I'm attempting to learn piano, and thats even more insane.
This brings me to my primary questions. Is there anyone out there who has mastered the art of limb independence? What is the trick? Is there even a trick beyond just to practice a lot?
Limb independence and things like multitasking, for example, I feel go hand in hand when it comes to what parts of your brain are being used. It seems like smart people are good at multitasking, and it really seems like smart people are good at piano, is this mere coincidence? I think naught. what do YOU think?