Avoid learning to play percussion in this way!

Avoid confusion and contradiction in your learning path in percussion

• First, learning in this way It is more possible to find contradictions, and that leads to confusion. And again, that can affect your learning process in a negative way, making it harder and even longer. Instead when you use a learning method all knowledge and practice are built around the same ideas and are delivered to you throught a coordinated plan that improves your learning process.
• Second, in general, when you put together pieces from different parts of they just don’t fit.

Let’s see a simple example to understand idea. After looking for videos to learn a rhythms you end up with two videos. With the first video, you’re going to learn to play something in this way: The video says that you have to play that, starting with your left hand and that you’re going to you have to play by repeating your hands while you play the rhythm of the exercise.

Then jump to the second video in which you are going to learn another rhythm, but now this video tells you that you have to start the playing with your right hand and that you’re going to play it playing or using the digitation “one on one”, what I mean is you can´t repeat your hands.

The obvious situation here is what will happen when you try to combine them and try to play them together. Are you going to be able to play them? I think that most probably you wont!.

But, It´s not you who has the problem to learn to play percussion. Actually, the problem is the way in which you are learning to play percussion, what I mean is learning by little and disconnected pieces and without a learning method.

Instead, if you learn using a learning method, you will learn this two rhythm at the right time in your learning and with all the resources needed for you to be able to play them and combine them.

• Third, when you learn something without a method or a system, the little things that you learn, reamins disconnected and after a while they get lost and also you forget them. Instead, a learning method gives you a structure and a path to go through in which all the things that you learn are connected and part of a big plan that gives meaning to all of them.
  
  
• Last, after a while of learning by little pieces from different videos and sources, you are going to find out that between those isolated lesson there is a big void that makes them seem like isolated like little islands. So what I mean is that there is no connection between them. So, you´ll end up knowing very little pieces of something, but at the same time not knowing a lot of stuff that is vital in your learning process. Again, with a learning method, you’re going to be in a better position because all the knowledge are going to be connected and organized in a learning plan that facilitates and improves your learning process.

So these are the main consequences of becoming Frankeinstein percussionist, and also you can see how they compromise your learning process, making it chaotic more difficult and even longer.

So if your doing it, my suggestion is that you make a U-turn and move in to a more structured plan in which you’re going to know that each step that you make is right and part of a big plan that make sense to everything that you do. At the end, you’ve got to feel the difference. And more important, you’re going to see that your learning process improve and also your playing the skills gets better in each step.

Thanks for reading this post. I hope you found it useful for your learning path in percussion