Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Current Practice Routine
I typically practice for about 1-2 hours a day Monday-Wednesday and hour on Fridays if I can get into one of the Rehearsal rooms. I haven't been able to practice as much on drums at home as I haven't been able to get all the parts for a drum kit. I was missing the floor tom and the crash symbol but now I have them I will be able to practice more.
My main strategies for practice are playing songs I already know without the music to listen and see if they sound correct, then trying to play along with them to music. I do this for a bit to make sure the songs I do know are accurate and then I try to learn new songs by ear. I do this by listening to a section of the song, thinking about how it would be played, and trying it with the music to see if it is correct. I then try to play along with the rest of the song and if any of it doesn't sound right, I'll replay that section and listen to it again. I think this works well but I should probably watch videos of others playing the songs I'm learning to see how they play it compared to how I play it, then add some of their drumming techniques to the way I play it and try again. To do this I should probably pick a few different people playing the same song so I can pick up a different array of techniques and not just a few.
The difference between playing over pieces and purposeful practice is that if you are just playing over pieces most of the time it will have the instrument you are playing in so you are just going of that and you aren't really having to think as much about what you are playing because you are just going along with it. Purposeful practice would involve listening to a piece and pausing it, then practicing what you have just listened to without a track to make sure you have got it right or playing with a group without a backing track to see if you can all play it correctly with no track to guide you. Purposeful practice could also involve just practicing techniques that you commonly use or even some that you don't use so you could get used to playing them and possibly add them in to your performances.
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