Beginner Drummers Guide to Playing Drums (Part 3)

At this stage of your being a beginner, you will be introduced to some musical phrases. As you become more versed with the language of drumming, your notes which were once sort of monosyllabic, in other words monotonous, eventually progress into a more fluid performance of adjoining beats. It is at this time when some changes and transitions are added to your beginner course with the guidance of instructors and pros.

It is with a sense of accomplishment that a beginner drummer like you gets to add some style to the start or end of your musical phrase. To add more impact, you could make a change in the dynamics of how you play. You could make a fill at just the right timing. You can make better judgments not only on how to do fills but also when to do them. What you should never forget and overlook is that you are able to continue the basic beat which you learned to play.

Through the ear training which a beginner course provides, your aural skills are further enhanced. You learn to listen better, examine your own work, and detect errors in how you do your fills. It is at this stage that you are able to put theory into practice. You will constantly apply all the tips and techniques which were shared to you during the earlier stages of your learning. Your movements become more automatic and coordinated whenever you do hi-hats and drum beats on the snare drum or bass drum. You can deal with more complicated drum beats without having to think too much. You can even synchronize your body movements with the rhythm of the music.

Your knowledge on how chords interrelate in a particular key and how good they sound when played in progression gives you a better grasp on how a wonderfully composed melody is supposed to sound to the ear. You can somehow distinguish when a pitch isn’t right or is off. You become more conscious of intervals and patterns and how they make music more harmonious to the senses. It will be like a reawakening for you on how music should really be.