i am learning drums for 1 yr but all the teachers seem to fool me teaching me rythms n wasting my money n time

Question

rythms like soul,rock,swing,twist,disco.

Answer 1

There are a lot of things we learn that are only important because they are vehicles to help us learn deeper things. We learn hard math because it shapes our minds to think logically (not because we'll all need to measure triangles), we read boring books because if we can understand what the boring book is saying, we'll be able to understand the legal contracts someone will give us someday (which is important to understand) and we play certain rhythms and songs because in them are the fruits of technique. I'm a musician, and my whole life has been learning songs, not really learning to sing. But each song had a new challenge, a new problem, and now I just naturally know who to sing well. You'll wake up someday to see you can play anything you can think on the drums- it will take a while, but will hit you like a brick when it comes.

Answer 2

Absolutely manditory. Ginger Baker, Mick Fleetwood, Hal Blaine, Gene Krupa, Carmine Appice, Dallas Taylor, John Bonham, Steve Gadd, Tony Williams were ALL experts at all forms of rhythms.

In fact, a former METAL HEAD drummer I know got his FIRST MTV "unplugged" gig as a sideman playing ARABIC drums.

Advanced rythms come next. African (12 beat -- and your 12 bar blues tend to eminate from this concept as do songs like "I Hear You Knocking") and India beats (tabla).

The start of "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones (played on bongos by Mick Jagger) is an EXACT South American CLAVE

What you are learning are CLAVES

Go listen to some essoteric music like Omar Sosa's second album in his Tribal trilogy, recorded in South America and listen to that DRUMMER slide ONE without losing the band.

Go listen to Tony Williams, probably the greatest drummer who ever lived. (Mahuvishna Orchestra as well as solo projects)

Pick up Gene Krupa's greatest hits and listen to some of those cuts. All done LIVE no editing, no punch ins, no doubling.

They are trying to teach your four limbs to think in CLAVES or BEATS independetly and give you a background of this to make you a better musician.

If all there was to playing drums was 2 and 4 everyone would just get a beat box!

A good drummer can, WITH ANY LIMB hit a ONE-E-AND-A anywhere in the count PERFECTLY, ON TIME

Answer 3

And what exactly are they supposed to be teaching you? Drums are rhythm. You learn the various rhythms and you expand and integrate as you progress. After awhile you develope your own style based on these basic rhythms. If you've only been doing it for a year you haven't even learned all the rudiments yet. To be proficient takes a few years. Don't be impatient if you want to be good. However, considering you have had multiple teachers in only a year, I suspect your expecting to be John Bonham right out the door.

Answer 4

You can't be a drummer without understanding rhythm. What, exactly, do you think drummers do?

Answer 5

creativity cant be taught, thats for you to come up with on your own. they're just giving you options.

:)

Answer 6

No they're not, It is you. It is not your line.