Comments on: 7 Drumming Habits You Need To Break

By: EskiRob

EskiRob — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 06:13:00 +0000

Thanks Casey; I really enjoyed your performance. I think my worst drumming “habit” is not being consistent about practice time invested.

By: Peter Grayson

Peter Grayson — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 22:47:00 +0000

Thanks Casey you have a great attitude. My worst habit is trying to progress before I am ready

By: aileen

aileen — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 01:21:00 +0000

I’ve learned to play the drums without proper tutorial. So I’ have a lot of bad habits to break. I have to learn to practice with the metronome. I have an app in my phone and I just can’t seem to get my beat to sync with it. Another is slouching while playing….and a lot more.
I appreciate your effort on making tutorial videos that help drummers all around the world. I’ve learned a lot from you though I’m from the Philippines. Thank you 🙂

By: Bill Shelbourne

Bill Shelbourne — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:44:00 +0000

I would say my comfort beat! 1 and 3 and 2 and 4!

By: Bill Shelbourne

Bill Shelbourne — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:31:00 +0000

You and Drumeo are amazeing thank you for the lessons!

By: Carson Cox

Carson Cox — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:35:00 +0000

My bad habit is setting up the Drummer just for looks

By: Bill Anderson

Bill Anderson — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:09:00 +0000

Like Bill Doyle, I too am left-handed. I am 62 but brand new to playing a kit. My worst bad habit is constantly leading with my left hand stick. I don’t know if it’s related, but I get my bass drum foot mixed up (right foot and then switch over to left foot. Am I that uncoordinated? Should I switch to a left hand kit setup? Or, is there a tip to get me the muscle memory I need to play a set?

By: Olstad

Olstad — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 16:41:00 +0000

Confident fills/beats. Finaly a word for it. I have many problems in my playing, but that is my big one i think.

By: Eric Beausoleil

Eric Beausoleil — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:28:00 +0000

I apologize in advance as this will be a very long post but even if I’ve been following you guys for a long time now (started by purchasing the Cobus method a few years ago) … this will be my first ever posting and I want to share my history a little.
I’m now 42 y/o and I took some drumming lessons at 17 while i was in college but stopped playing after. 4 years ago, I bought the RockBand game/kit (with the ”toy” drum kit) on Xbox which kinda sparked back my love for drumming. Then my friend who had a Yamaha DTX drum kit plugged in to RB with a MIDI adapter landed me his drum kit for a couple of months and THAT really fueled me! So much that the day I had to give it back, I went out and bought the same Yamaha DTX 500 kit with standalone hi-hat stand and double kick pedals for over $1000.00. That was a huge investment for me and I did not waste it. Been playing the kit for over 4 years now and still love doing it (side note: extremely depressed by RB4 not supporting E-KITS at launch and not knowing if they ever will. BIG mistake on their part in my opinion).

Here is my biggest bad habit … So far I only played my kit while playing RB and now that I can play most (400+) of the RB songs I have at expert level with with a range of 95% to 100% result, I have a growing desire to just play my kit without using RB songs and it’s very discouraging because every time I try the following happens:
– I tend to freeze because I don’t have any visual cues for notes without RB.
– I suddenly feel like a beginner again who doesn’t know how to play at all even if I can do pretty hot stuff on RB.

This is a habit that built itself over a 4 years period and I’m REALLY lost as to how to break it !!! Any suggestions would be very appreciated.

Other smaller bad habits that I’m working on:
– tendency to slouch my back while playing. not keeping my back straight unless I really focus on it which hurts my concentration on the notes to play.
– tendency to open my left hand whenever I have to do a very quick double snare note (using the rebound effect) which throws off my whole hand position.

My response about Casey’s comment on ”watching other drummers play and telling yourself … I’ll never be able to play that”.

When I started playing RB, There was soooooo many songs that I thought were insane and I kept saying to myself that I would never be able to play them. Over time as I was building my memory muscles without really noticing it, I managed to progress so much that today I have no problem playing them. Yes, only on RB but still, I think it still makes sense for me to say that we should never see something as impossible to play no matter how hard it looks like today. After all If one person managed to play it before why would you not be able to do it as well one day 🙂

Keep up the good work guys!
Eric

By: Peter Cyr

Peter Cyr — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 13:21:00 +0000

My bad habit has to be the failure to practice. Just fun practice wherein new avenues are explored. I fall into the trap of practicing song lists in preparation for shows and miss out on the fun sometimes.

By: Peter Cyr

Peter Cyr — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 13:19:00 +0000

In reply to Bill Doyle. I feel your pain sir. Having been born left handed I still lead from the left on many things. Luckily for me I went to a Catholic school where I was smacked on the hand with a ruler every time I would go to pick up the pencil with my left hand. So a nod to the nuns who started my conversion to right handedness?

By: Christopher Nall

Christopher Nall — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 13:16:00 +0000

My bad habit is playing mostly 4 beat fills and not mixing in fills of different duration.

By: Kevin Thomas

Kevin Thomas — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:45:00 +0000

My bad habit would have to be when I slouch as I play. I find when I do, my playing is a lot more lazy and my balance is all off when trying to hit the bass and then lifting off the hi-hat.

By: Bill Doyle

Bill Doyle — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:14:00 +0000

My bad habit has to be the fact that I am left handed and I have always played my drums set up right handed and because I lead with my left hand my sticks get tangled up when I do a fill. I have tried setting up my kit left handed and I feel so uncordinated that I get frustrated and switch back to right hand again. I wish you had more totally left handed drummers on your programs.

By: Joost Schreuders

Joost Schreuders — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:42:00 +0000

my bad habbit is just to have to do too much so i dont find the time to practice enough.

By: Josen Reji

Josen Reji — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:33:00 +0000

My habit is playing the same fill every time I get on my kit, folding my thumb when gripping the sticks and not using a metronome. And avoiding my school homework and playing my kit instead!!!

By: Sasha

Sasha — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:05:00 +0000

Jared and Casey, you guys are clear and thoughtful and amazingly talented. I feel lucky to have you as virtual teachers. So many great tips. “Learn just one new thing a day.” Love it!

By: Susi Nelson Youngs

Susi Nelson Youngs — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:04:00 +0000

Rushing the tempo is my weakness. It’s so easy to get excited and speed up instead of locking into a really solid beat.

By: Eric Maynard

Eric Maynard — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:42:00 +0000

My bad habit is doing the same fills every time. I need to start doing new fills.

By: chennel love

chennel love — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:24:00 +0000

i want the swag bag i want to meet you jared you are awesome as hell