19 Jan
2009
19 Jan
'09
2:21 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:02:43AM -0800, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
On 19 January 2009 at 1:12, Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed. These might be pretty instructional, or at least inspirational:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=new+york+street+drummer&sea…
Actually there are so many fantastic videos on YouTube, available for free, it's
astounding. Who do you want to study? Vinnie Colaiuta? Terry Bozzio? Steve Gadd? Stewart
Copeland? Back when I was a kid, you had to buy instructional videos and they cost a lot
of money. Nowadays you can just fire up teh YouTubes and see any amazing musician you care
to FOR FREE! It's a resource I would have killed for when I was a kid.
Not just drums, and not just funk or jazz either. How 'bout this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RjebdVKIAM
Pick your virtuoso, type their name into YouTube, watch, listen, and learn. The sky's
the limit.
-ken
I am wondering, what is a good way to learn some
drumming? I was
thinking of just buying a snare drum and two sticks...
31 years ago I bought a pair of sticks. I couldn't afford the drum,
so I used cardboard boxes. These days you could use a 5 gallon
plastic bucket, like street drummers sometimes use. It doesn't
matter how you start; just start. Lessons will speed up your
learning, and keep you from falling into traps from teaching yourself.
You could get an instructional video too.