How do people play drums...

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.

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You start off unbearably slow and gradually increase the tempo.

use a drum machine

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

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

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.

ADHD

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.

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.

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.

Heres what I mean if you don't know 4 on the floor and can't read drum tabilature
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Also I fucked up the tab anyway lol

You have to train limb independence, which is a fancy way of saying that you can pretty much put your hands and feet on a sort of autopilot and have them hold a unique pattern while you focus on the overall beat and song.

Its really awkward to train, and the biggest mistake you can make is overthinking what you're trying to do. It was extremely unintuitive for me at first, I struggled for a long while just trying to make my hands independent until I was playing one day and it just sort of clicked. Then I had to move on to my feet, which was harder.

As the other guy said though, starting slow with basic rhythms is the best way. A simple 4/4 hi-hat rock beat is a good way to develop basic independence for your dominant hand as you can focus on keeping the beat with the kick drum on 1/3 and the snare on 2/4 while your dominant hand effectively plays quarter notes throughout by itself. Once you can hold that progressively speed it up, and then swap the dominant hand over to eighth notes or splice some eighth notes into the kick drum for variety.

The best part about drums though is that you can literally practice anywhere, just holding a basic beat by tapping your hands and feet. Its annoying as hell to people around you, or so I've been told, but I'm at the point where its practically an unconscious response to hearing music. So long as you keep playing, increased coordination and speed will come with time and practice.

An easy way to test limb independence is by doing the classic rub your stomach while patting your head thing.

Not sure if it will help at all, but this was the song I primarily practiced to when first starting out with drumset as it had a moderate tempo with a basic beat and fills (and also a killer sax solo):
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As with EVERYTHING, practice

four on the floor has its original roots in early development of jazz, its the bassist / and or the drummer's bass drum marking time - but its a feel as much as its is anything else

I had no trouble with every part of drumming except... rhythm.
Yeah turns out I suck at it.

This kinda.
Though if you can't get it after a few days you never will.

no need to be a fatalist
youre basically rewiring youre brain to do things it never thought to do before
it takes time

Some people have chaotic minds though, like me. It's literally futile to lay down a beat for a record for me. I'm fine when not doing that though. It's just arrhythmia with tempo or how my mind naturally swings off tempo.

You rarely if ever use more than 3 fingies per hand at a time

Who are the greatest drummers of all time?

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Meg White.

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I want to watch some insane, god tier drumming.

i never understood it either. No one plays drums in my town because everyone is a brainlet (including me) so I just use a drum machine

damn how many songs can you hear in this beat

OH WHAT A NIGHT LATE DECEMBER BACK IN 63

zach

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hes clearly talented but as a drummer i can't stand shit like this. Absolute wankery

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one of the best. and hes a great teacher too

I was looked up to
>Brann Dailor
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>Keith Moon
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>Mitch Mitchell
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as a teenager, but as I've gotten older I've really taken more modern influence from bands like Interpol, Tame Impala and King Gizzard for drum parts. That said there's tons of incredible jazz drummers you can find on youtube from just youtube searching crazy drum solos. There's virtuoso drummers that just tour around doing drum showcases playing 10 minute solos to show off new kits from companies.