Ok I know the title says making a band and that IS my main question but I have a couple of other ones as well. I'd like to apologize for this dreadfully long read, you don't have to read the intro you can just skip to the questions if you wanna.
As far as introductions go I've been here before and its been a while and I don't recognize most of you so I'm Crateis, real name's Victor (Vic for short). I've been playing drums since roughly the middle of last November, so a little under half a year. I do take drum lessons, I can read pretty basic music, I have a nice ear for music (figuring out toms frustrate me sometimes but I'm sure that's a universal thing lol). Some of the bands I listen to are (please don't gag) Paramore, Linkin Park, System, Coldplay, A Day To Remember, and a bunch more. I have a really open mind to music so if you have any bands that are good (and have some epic drumming in it) feel free to hit me up.
Oh yeah I'm 15 years old (16 on the 16th :D), I just joined my church youth band recently and I haven't played yet but I will this coming Wednesday if I get the songs down (2/3 so far). I have a dream of mastering the drums and performing in front of thousands of screaming fans, adrenaline rushing. My musical influences as far as drummers go is John Bonham, I adore that man...that's basically it lol I needa expand...anywhooo on to the questions:
1. When do you know you're good enough to join/make a band? Like I know there's no set requirement of things to know but what are things that help out in the long run, like techniques and such?
2. TIME. I know time is #1 on the drummer's list, and I can't keep it worth crap. I kinda already know the answer to this, buy a bloody metronome, but is that it? I know metronomes help but when you're live you won't have a metronome, is keeping time a learned thing or what. Oh and as for buying one, I wanted one that I could plug my headphones in (keep in my I AM on a student's budget) and I can kinda hear over my drums (I was thinking
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...0_Dr_Beat.html) and if you could recommend some nice headphones you use that cancel out the noise, my current ones aren't really cutting it.
3. What do I learn first? I mean if you youtube 'drum lessons' you'll get tens of thousands of videos, I start looking at one and then another and pretty soon I'm overwhelmed with all these techniques and junk. Like I said I have a teacher but all we're doing is reading music and working on limb seperation, covering the occasional song if I need. Any advice on that?
4. I know you guys get this question A LOT but I've been working on rudiments, basic ones such as diddles, doubles (and variations), flams, rolls (I still suck at these), etc. and my speed seems to have gotten to a certain pace and just stopped. It's not even that fast...so do I just keep trying to work out the wrist, change to a pillow, or what? Oh and I know there's a bunch more rudiments but I wanna know how fast I should get with these ones I have before moving on to rudiments that build upon the basics.
Please and Thank You for all the help, I'll be a lot more active on here...it's about time I got serious with my drums, I love them but I've been lazy. Time for that to change. I also apologize for the lengthy read, it was more of a hassle to type lol.
On a COMPLETELY unrelated note I just got COD:MW2 yesterday on my PS3, PM for PSNID if you wanna get owned :P
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