What Is Triage? It's How You Get Good At Drumming!

I don't know about you, but I love to drum stuff I can do well and feed off that positive feedback loop. Hey, I think it's extremely helpful for your confidence and your overall mental health as a growing musician.

That being said, you should do it too much.

In my playing days, I learned a great analogy for identifying what to clean: triage!

If cleaning in the Marching Arts was like a hospital triage, then you want to treat the patients with the worst injuries and ailments. So in drumming, you want to clean the dirtiest parts and or the sections you don't do very well and you want to spend most of your time hitting those sections...especially if you only have a limited amount of time to work on stuff!

Or if you are learning music and you already know the opener, don't spend too much time doing run-throughs of the opener when you just received the music for the ballad, drum solo, or closer and you don't know it at all...it only makes sense right?

But I know how tempting it can be to do some run-throughs of things you don't do well, so I'm not surprised if some people fall into that temptation ;)

What do you think? Have you ever heard this analogy before? For more perspective, make sure to watch the video below: