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One Thing is True about Drummers
7 JanWe drummers are a motivated lot. We practice and we play!
Sometimes we worry that we don’t practice enough
and worry we don’t have opportunities to play enough.
Sometimes we worry we are too loud. Sometimes we worry
we are not hip enough. Other times we worry we’re not as
good as so and so down the block…in the next practice room
or in that ‘other’ band.
Worry, worry, worry. How to STOP worrying?
Here’s the secret. I’ve got the secret. I’ll share that secret.
How to stop worrying? This is it….here’s the nectar of freedom.
Ready? Willing? Receptive?
You will stop worrying when you just don’t care.
Just don’t care. Don’t care? Yup, don’t care!
Just don’t care what the other person is doing
because it will always be different than what you are doing.
Be ever-present with what you are doing. Care what you do.
Care so much that you forget to worry about what that other
drummer is doing.
It’s called Ever-Present Focus.
Devour that and your worries will fade away as the
morning dew evaporates each & every morning.
The QD
PS Buddy Rich actually told me thhis when he performed at The Prom Ballroom in Minneapolis back in 1970. He basically said:
“Care about your own drumming
not someone else’s drumming.”
Drum to Beat the Band!
4 JanWait! Nice familiar phrase but wrong!
Drumming to beat for the band.
That’s more like it.
We are the servants of the pulse, the beat, the music.
We are the ‘Jeeves’ of the music industry.
Once in a while we can wail. Like, every Thursday.
The QD
Hallelujah, I found my Beat!
4 JanVocalists always are searching for their ‘voice’.It’s a subtile awareness of an objective presence.
Ask a singer, a pro singer. See what they say about this.
Now ask a drummer. Have you found your inner beat?
Most likely they’ll say….”Say What”????
But we have to find it too.
And it has nothing to do with notes and tones on the drum.
The QD
