Tag: Chicago drum instruction

  • Gimmicks

    Learning an instrument is not easy. People look for lessons everywhere, and, more likely than not these days, on the internet. The grand wide web has, so far, answered most of their questions about life: learning to play them drums should be no exception. They look for lessons. They are usually expecting something that will…

  • Instruments wrecking team.

    Trivia: Who were the guys in piano and drums who used to destroy instruments just for the fun of it?   Answer: Ludwig Van Beethoven and John Bonham.   Both of these gentlemen, when they were young, took a sick pleasure in playing so hard the piano or the drums would fall apart. Beethoven would…

  • The first rock band

    If we look up the name of the first Rock band, we find Bill Haley and the Comets. Google might be a mighty force, but in this case it seems to be mistaken. I was reading a book on the origins of the drum kit and the first trace of a bass drum pedal can…

  • Easy or difficult?

    Today we’re talking about the simplicity of music. There is an enduring myth out there that music is difficult. It has to be, because if you’ve been on this earth for awhile, chances are you will meet someone who tried to become a professional musician and didn’t succeed. By the same token, when you turn…

  • The surge.

    Are you like me? Are you fed-up of being cooped up? Are you sometimes thinking it would be nice to be able to go to the restaurant and leave the dishes to someone else? Do you long to see your family, your friends without asking for their medical records or probe into their lifestyle? And…

  • To conclude

    I have asked around. The same question every time. To every one I know. I write it in a dramatic way because the answers were unanimously dramatically bad.  No, we will not regret 2020! 2020 was an awful year. 2020 was the bottom of every ones life. 2020 is a cursed year, no doubt. It…

  • The Christmas chord.

    We have all sang, at a moment or another a Christmas song. Whether it was a simple little tidbit like Rudolph or something more ambitious like White Christmas. But a lot of Christmas, although they seem to roll of the tongue because they are so catchy, have a special chord in them. To name it…

  • A Merry Christmas

    Christmas was a big deal in my family. My step-father would go in the nearby forest and cut a tree. Tchac! Just like that! My sister and I would help him haul it in the house, set it up straight and strong into one of those little flimsy device you can never set the Christmas…

  • A thin line

    I spend a lot of time these days gauging the efforts of my students. When I conceive a page of exercise, I think of them as stones my people can walk on to cross a river. If I put the stones too close together, they are making no progress and it becomes boring, and if…

  • Easy melodies

    I am not sure why I am a musician. I don’t think it was because of my talent. I don’t think fate had anything to do with it either. My parents didn’t push me to become a drummer or a piano player. My friends either. One strong reason maybe: I like music. Correction: I love…