i read through the pages of your thread and i noticed one of your replies which cited that you focus too much on the technicalities...
you know what bro, ive been through that state lately and i sort of got frustrated myself. hell im not a good drummer myself (very newbie material in fact) but i surely wanted to improve my overall drumming so i looked into the technical side of drumming, from the way i held my sticks, various positions of feet on the peds, stricking techniques, dynamics, even note reading...almost the whole lot. i can fairly say that ive improved but i have to be honest i didnt have fun. it was cool learning new stuffs and techniques but at the end of the day i told myself--sure drumming is an endless learning experience and it pays to be technical once in a while but i sort of asked myself rin "where is the fun in that?" i mean "where is the fun in drumming?" the answer to that really varies and depends on the person...so i sort of reflected and asked myself "what makes drumming 'fun' for me and me alone?"
at that point i said: ok tama na muna technical side, back to jamming with friends and music tracks and apply what i learned when i went technical. and indeed my drummin improved a bit, not a whole lot, but better than nothing.
my point is, it pays to look at the technical and learning side of drumming once in while, but i guess, just as anyone else, concentration on training a lot tends to wind people down...you also got to get in there and define what makes drumming fun and enjoyable to you and go do it. training, take a step back, have fun, evaluate, relax...its a fun cycle i guess if you put it that way. kumbaga sa school, pag aral na lang ng aral, di ba nakakatamad and sawa minsan pag di naman na-a-apply.
i say learn, relax, have fun, assess how youre doing, take a breather, and yep it pays to have someone to look up to in various aspects in life. ako in drumming, i look up to several foreign drummers and a couple of local pinoydrummers. not only do i get inspired by their drumming, i also check out who and what inspires them.
for example: i look up to taylor hawkins of foo fighters, when you dig deep, you can see an obvious similarity of his style with stewart copeland. why? coz he admires, emulates and is a copeland diehard. another, jose pasillas, listen to his creativity, then listen to billy cobham of mahavishnu orchestra. you'd see so much adaptations on there. one more, dave abbruzzese, listen to manu katche and jerry larotta of peter gabriel's plays live and shaking the tree albums and you can probably ascertain where he got his inspirations specially evident in versus and vitalogy albums. not that theyre carbon copies of their idols, each one also brings forward their own unique voice and leaves a 'trademark' in each song they punch in view of their inpirations.
but i also say, in life you gotta choose the right people who will inspire you. and inspire you to do good and your best, they must! not the otherwise. coz the person you will turn out to be depends on them rin.
okidoks, sorry i got carried away. but cheer up, we go through similar drum ruts, it happens to the best of us and is there for a reason...question is, what are you gona do about it?
