Sometimes, however, practicing may become a little bit of a problem if you do not have a music studio at your convenience. If you live in an apartment or close to neighbors, your practice sessions will make a great deal of noise and you may potentially become a nuisance and an annoyance to you neighbors and the people that you live with as well. In addition, you may have a busy schedule which only affords you to practice your drumming at night. Being noisy at night will upset the sleeping patterns of your neighbors and you may even be justly fined with a ticket from your local police department for disturbing the peace.
Do not fret too much. There are a couple of solutions that can afford you the ability to practice your drumming just about any time you want without disturbing anyone.
Drum Pad Silencers
Drum pad silencers are simple pads made out of a rubber-like material that you apply onto the top of your drums. These drum pad silencers absorb the sound that hitting the drums with your drumsticks make while at the same time still preserving a good amount of the same natural stick bounce and feel of your drum set. They even make these great silencer pads for the bass drum and cymbals.
Do not get me wrong, you will still create some noise while you are practicing with the drum pad silencers on. However, if you close your room door, your family will hardly hear a thing, and your neighbors will not hear a thing at all. So, with drum pad silencers, you can rock out on your drum set at any time of the day that you wish without disturbing the peace of anyone.
Rock Band
Have you heard of the video game Rock Band? Well, if you are a musician, than you should familiarize yourself with Rock Band. Granted, playing this video game is not really like playing in an actual rock band, the drum set in Rock Band comes pretty close to the real thing. The drum sequences in the video game are pretty awesome, and will test your drumming skills. These things are fairly quiet, but if you want it even quieter, they make drum pad silencers for the drum set made for Rock Band.
If you have got a set of headphones for your television and you have drum silencer pads, you are good to practice drumming with Rock Band almost at any time that you would like. It is a fun way to practice and test your coordination and dexterity.
So, these are just a couple of examples that should get you started with practicing your drumming quietly or as quietly as possible at the least. Rock on!
Playing On The Drums
I remember when I first started playing the drums back in 1976. I was just ten years old, and the thought of being an
awesome drummer in a band just consumed me. I remember dreaming about playing drums in front of hundreds, or even
thousands of people someday. But, I really never considered how difficult it would be to finally get to that point.
Now, after thirty years of drumming, and playing with dozens of different musicians with various personalities, I can
clearly see why most drummers and other musicians cannot play together for very long.
The three biggest reasons are... personality conflicts, ego, and just life in general.
Some people may think personality conflicts occur all because of ego. Even though sometimes that is true, personality
conflicts can result from simply just not liking another person for whatever reasons.
As far as ego is concerned, there is nothing wrong with a good healthy ego. It's when that ego gets distorted and
someone begins to thinks he or she is something they're really not. That is when it gets ugly.
I remember playing drums in a band back in 1985. The lead guitarist was so arrogant no one could hardly stand him. He
was definitely a great guitarist, the only problem was, he knew it (if you know what I mean).
There is simply one way to get along with someone with a totally distorted view of themselves, and that is to let them
continue to think the way they want to think... if you can.
A person with an overinflated ego is so sickening that most humble people cannot bear it for long. And one person with
an ego problem usually cannot work with another person with an ego problem because then it becomes a battle of the
wills. That's one of the biggest reasons bands break up.
Anything with more than one head is a freak and will not function properly unless everyone involved willingly agrees on
any particular topic.
Another reason why drummers and other musicians cannot play together for very long is because of the things "life"
throws in the way.
People get married, people change jobs and move away, people have babies, people get sick, and the list is endless.
The only thing that controls your future as a drummer is you. Will you decide to have a likeable personality? Will you
keep your ego in check? Will you keep a good attitude and stay focused when "life" throws it's firey darts at you?
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