Learn Your Drumline Exercises, Warmups and Show Music Faster By NOT Listening To Your Brain!

So I have run into this issue a lot with my private lesson students where I would teach them how to play a part by rote and they would play the part back and not interpret it the exact same way that I played it. 

For example, say you played a part for a student and they left out one note near the end of the measure. This can tend to be both interesting and frustrating at the same time. 

So when this happens, you might have asked yourself: “How and why does this happen with my students?” So I am here to discuss how and why this happens! :)

Over the years, I have really tried to do my best to study the psychology behind the music and drumming and why certain things happen or why students do things a certain way. What I have found is that drumming and psychology are very much related!

Say you played a measure correctly once, maybe two times after playing it incorrectly a bunch of times. Then you go back and review that measure after learning more and you play it incorrectly again. That can be frustrating, right? 

I think the reason why that happens is that when you learn something for the first time, you don’t have it down quite yet! You still need more reps to log it into your muscle memory bank correctly so your hands and ears can recall it. 

Since the part is not logged away in your muscle memory, that means that there are some gaps in the information that is presented on the page. Since there are informational gaps, your brain will try and fill it with something else, and that information could end up being wrong.

So with this idea in mind, It is important that you learn something right the very first time and build the comfort level for that. If there are still gaps in information, go back and fill it up with the correct information. 

This will make convincing yourself that you are playing the right part SO much easier :)

For more information on this topic on how to learn your music faster AND more correctly the first time, click on the video below :)