Should You Consider A Drum
Lesson Online?
Learn To Play Drums -- But
On The Internet?
The internet has made it easier than
ever to learn to drum. You can get a drum lesson online now,
so that you can start today without ever even leaving your
house. I have a friend who has been doing just that.
He has subscribed to a site which,
twice a week, gives him an interactive drum lesson online.
The technology of it is just extraordinary. It can actually
show him the beats as it is playing. There is even a feature
that will listen to his playing and make comments, but
unfortunately it requires expensive midi triggers to detect
the notes.
Does A Drum Lesson Online Compare
To A Music Teacher?
Of course, all of this technology is
really positively neato, but it still doesn't beat a real
face to face lesson in my opinion. Sure, there are
advantages to taking a drum lesson online.
Pros And Cons To A Drum Lesson
Online
You can take it any time you want, it
is cheaper than a normal lesson in person, and finally, it
allows you to not leave the house for your lesson. But when
you get down to it, there are things that a real teacher can
tell you that a drum lesson online simply can not.
First of all, he can tell you when you
are making mistakes, and what to do about it. Even if a drum
lesson online can detect your mistakes, it won't be able to
detect more subtle things like amplitude and
“feel”.
Drumming Lessons Online Are Not
Always Enough
To learn really rudimentary
techniques, all you have to do is practice, and listen to an
expert play, but to learn some advanced licks requires a
bunch more. You need some one who really knows their way
around a drum kit to do that, and that is a hard someone to
find online.
My First Drum Lesson
Online
Although I took my first drum lesson
online, I soon discovered that I really would do much better
with a real, live teacher. I soon found my teacher, and
began studying how to play drums.
The difference was amazing. The drum
lesson online did a little for me, but the teacher I got
showed me right away how to become a better drummer. It was
a drumming lesson I won't soon forget that started it.
I never even realized that I needed to
develop hand independence to advance past the basics until
my teacher told me that, but once she gave me some tips, I
was soon on my way to becoming a great drummer.
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