How do people play drums? I have tried and the level of coordination required to keep your feet and your hands all moving correctly seems impossible to me.
How do people play drums...
Robert Adams
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Brandon Robinson
You start off unbearably slow and gradually increase the tempo.
Connor Martin
use a drum machine
Wyatt Brown
It's like any instrument where some just have a better sense of rhythm than others, the limb independence and coordination takes years of practice though.
I actually started with Rock Band playing it for many hours a day for years. Went from failing songs on medium mode to 100% some of the hardest songs on expert. Been playing real drums for like 11 years now and everything is great except my left foot since that's the one thing Rock Band didn't teach lol
Grayson Lee
This. Started off on rock band easy mode as a kiddo. Piano still seems impossible to me tho, moving all of my fingers in different ways all at once, whew
Camden Watson
Even at a slow tempo I can't figure out how to move my foot in one pattern, my hand in another pattern, and so on. I don't know how to move them independently of each other.
Hudson Mitchell
ADHD
Blake Jenkins
It’s definitely difficult, I remember failing to do the pat head rub belly at the same time thing as a kid. Out of curiosity, how old are you? Drums came pretty naturally to me but say, strumming a guitar was a nightmare I stayed away from until very recently, and then I had to really try at it, day after day of sucking until it clicked and I could at least strum the strings semi consistently.
Ethan Lewis
All starts with simple 4 on the floor beats.
x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
- --x- --x---x---x
o- --o---o---o---
play it literally so slow it sounds like basically nothing, you can literally do this right now you don't need a kit. Most drummers are always tapping shit and "practicing" in their normal day to day life.
Then once you get good at that you start being able to add things in and get more complex with your beats. You need to have patience and a will to put in a lot of practice.
Jordan Smith
Don't even worry about tempo at the stage you're at, just try to hit everything in order, even if it's slow as hell and out of time. The proper rhythm will come in naturally as you get more comfortable with the beat.
I only started drums 4 years ago and I learn complex beats this exact way still. You'd think I never touched a drum kit with the way I start off learning things.