Just to de-hibernate everyone, now Spring is on the way (well, at least where I am), I have a bouquet of first-bud questions.
For starters, here’s one (or a few).
First (age context) I have several kids who have now, more or less, left the house.
But.. I have just started drumming. Come to think of it, maybe that’s why they left? - Still, I like it.
Now kicking off my second year - jeez, remember that time? something we all went through, like how many centuries ago?
I’ve taken the luxury of finding a young “teacher” (my kid’s age), so I learn by deciphering sheet music that he gives me - stuff from his generation – Bruno Mars (who?), Katy Perry.. - you get the picture.
‘Course I wanna play stuff from my generation, which, you-guessed, he doesn’t have, at least not the sheet music.
(To give an idea it took me a year to find “Angie”, Rolling Stones, from another source.)
Where was I..?
Yeah, so what criteria does one use to select songs to learn? What determined your first cover songs ?
Criteria :
- Songs your teacher (if you had one) gave you
- Songs you liked, regardless of difficulty
- Difficulty based on bpm (easy to establish)
- Difficulty based on complexity (not always evident in a music score, if you can find one)
- Difficulty based on both complexity & bpm
- Other criteria
- Or, at what stage do you get to the point, that you don’t even consider such details.
I’ll add that in my case, choosing my own stuff probably means buying the sheet music from somewhere like :
- onlinedrummer.com - sheet-music
- drumscore.com - sheet-music
So far I have used freebie sheets from these sites – but if I buy, are the scores reliable?
Finally..
By Ear? I guess most drummers should be able to learn songs/drum stuff by ear. And maybe that’s how many of you started and do things now? But if, as is my case, you started with score music, when does the transition happen? To me right now, trying to figure things out by ear alone sounds kind of scary. Like a higher level that I haven’t got to yet. But should I be trying?
Right now, I'm tackling basic pop-rock stuff but tend to like pop-rock-blues classics from 70s, 80s and on. Anything with a good rhythm and melody. Latest song I did was Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" - just to show I'm not totally disconnected from the 21st century.
What’s your advice? Your experiences?
For starters, here’s one (or a few).
First (age context) I have several kids who have now, more or less, left the house.
But.. I have just started drumming. Come to think of it, maybe that’s why they left? - Still, I like it.
Now kicking off my second year - jeez, remember that time? something we all went through, like how many centuries ago?
I’ve taken the luxury of finding a young “teacher” (my kid’s age), so I learn by deciphering sheet music that he gives me - stuff from his generation – Bruno Mars (who?), Katy Perry.. - you get the picture.
‘Course I wanna play stuff from my generation, which, you-guessed, he doesn’t have, at least not the sheet music.
(To give an idea it took me a year to find “Angie”, Rolling Stones, from another source.)
Where was I..?
Yeah, so what criteria does one use to select songs to learn? What determined your first cover songs ?
Criteria :
- Songs your teacher (if you had one) gave you
- Songs you liked, regardless of difficulty
- Difficulty based on bpm (easy to establish)
- Difficulty based on complexity (not always evident in a music score, if you can find one)
- Difficulty based on both complexity & bpm
- Other criteria
- Or, at what stage do you get to the point, that you don’t even consider such details.
I’ll add that in my case, choosing my own stuff probably means buying the sheet music from somewhere like :
- onlinedrummer.com - sheet-music
- drumscore.com - sheet-music
So far I have used freebie sheets from these sites – but if I buy, are the scores reliable?
Finally..
By Ear? I guess most drummers should be able to learn songs/drum stuff by ear. And maybe that’s how many of you started and do things now? But if, as is my case, you started with score music, when does the transition happen? To me right now, trying to figure things out by ear alone sounds kind of scary. Like a higher level that I haven’t got to yet. But should I be trying?
Right now, I'm tackling basic pop-rock stuff but tend to like pop-rock-blues classics from 70s, 80s and on. Anything with a good rhythm and melody. Latest song I did was Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" - just to show I'm not totally disconnected from the 21st century.
What’s your advice? Your experiences?
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