Travelling down the path to mastering and be able to perform a variety of different genres, I will first research into different styles of music through time and looking to variety different genres for instance; Fusion, Funk, Progressive metal, jazz, rock, reggae and so on.
I will be studying different grooves and fills that make up the structure of each individual style of music, learning a couple of songs from each to get a strong footing into the world of those genres, so I can use them later on when writing my and performing my own music.
Odd time signatures, one of my favourite things about drumming and something I hope to master so I can use effectively in my own music. Odd time signatures ranging from 5/4, 7/8, 9/8, 9/4 10/8, 11/8 and more. I think my favourite odd time signature is 9/8 then onto 9/4 and 7/8- 9/8 9/4 I like because the transition of your right hand moving from the down beat to an up beat, just going back and forth with each bar. I like 7/8 also just from the shear result of how it stops at the count of 4 and starts a new giving it this really nice feel to it.
To practice I will use an online click track rather from my phone or from my computer to listen and keep in time to whilst learning each seperate time signature, setting the clicks to each time signature so it counts them out whilst I play. Slowy but surely adding more or less bass and snare beats and hopefully looking into adding fills in those odd time signatures.
I do feel my main weak point in drumming is counting time signatures and bars in my head whilst playing rather fills or more complicated grooves, so it is definitely something I want to improve on. The only real way to improve on this is playing to a click track and counting in time to beats at slower a slower bpm and gradually making the grooves and mills more complex and making the bpm rate faster over time.
It does affect my drumming, and if I could conquer it, then it would greatly improve my playing. Furthermore, it would strongly help me when performing
The are many different aspects and paths through the field of drumming, many in which I hope to learn, study and conquer- One being the infamous style of Latin drumming. A very pro-active style, needing to be able to split your mind, using each separate limb independently, to perform specific grooves that inter-lock within one another. Practising latin drumming, I will practise each part with each separate limb, once comfortable- start playing two limbs at a time, then onto three limbs and and finally onto playing all limbs separately together- performing latin drumming. Taking each step slowly and drilling through them over and over keeping in time with a click track.
Many ways to play grooves and beats in drums, whether playing rudiments or poly-rhythms and onto linear drumming, each .."trick" you could say I see as another branch of from the main core of drumming, just another way to play the same thing.
Rudiments, different paradiddles I can and will drill out just over and over until i'm comfortable just on a practise pad, (or the snare drum).
Linear grooves, and polyrhythms however will be practised on the kit, with a click track. In terms of polyrhythms, it will be a matter of going from 4 over 3 polyrhythms, to 4 over 5 and finally onto 4 over 7 polyrhythms. due to polyrhythms being two different timing played on top of each other, it is then a matter of separating limbs- something that you can't just jump right into, so practise will be slow and steady, especially on the 4 over 5 and 4 over 7 polyrhythms, due to the larger amount of snare hits within the polyrhythm.
Linear drumming, I will be taking slowly as it can be quite a hard thing to conquer, so like with any other practising, I will be going from more basic beats to more intermediate onto advance beats and so on.
Confidence and such will come from just practising and performing- the more I practise and perform, the more confident I will be as a musician.
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