3 pieces of drumming advice you'd give yourself as a beginner

[SpazApproved]

some super great pieces of advice.

Should go through and find the top 3 listed.
Make it a sticky for all drummers to remember

[501208]

1. Be ambidextrous
2. Be yourself (stop trying to play like someone else)
3. Practice a lot

That's what I would have told myself.

[EddieV]

1. Play in TIME.
2. Read Music
3. Learn to play with clicks and tracks.

[markdrum]

1.) Practice as often as possible while sight reading without burning yourself out.

2.) If you're not ambidextrous take more reps with your non-dominant hand. My first teacher made me keep my right hand in my pocket and do everything; open doors, eat, carry his equipment8^) and such with my left. He was really frustrated when we found out that I was really left handed. The whole "devil's hand" thing.

3.) Listen and learn as many diiferent styles of music as possible.

[tah821]

As a drummer in a pretty active pop rock/pop punk band, I have learned these things that I wish I had known right away.

1) Play to a click live. The band will sound tighter and stay together, and the adrenaline of a live setting has no opportunity to creep in and make you speed the song up.

2) Learn double bass. Although I don't see myself utilizing it in our genre of music much, I wish my feet were both equally as strong as one another.

3) Simplicity is nice. Our recording engineer and I get along great because I have a pretty good "play for the song" mentality.