Here’s the free download to accompany this lesson.
Tolstoy’s Anna Karinena begins with the line “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
I feel that applies to drummers, only in reverse.
Every developed drummer is unique in their own way, and there are infinite ways to be good.
But practically every drummer on their way to being good passes through the same bottleneck.
This has been front-and-center in my mind this month as I’ve been watching a lot of footage from drummers doing one of my interactive courses. So many drummers work very hard to build up a bunch of “potential energy”, then end up getting blocked behind the same few things.
The good news is, once they break through, they often grow prodigiously for a few months, and it’s not because “shortcuts exist”', but rather because resolving these bottlenecks releases them to reap the benefits of all the work they’ve put in, but which they weren’t able to access.
And as I say in the video, there is zero shade for anybody who currently feels “stuck”. Everybody who ever became good was once at this same stage, and it’s not your fault - the quick wins and low hanging fruit to get to this stage stop working as quickly, and it can feel like progress just stalls.
That’s why I decided to make a video about the 5 most common blockers I see for drummers at this stage, and what to do about them.
While I can’t promise this will produce an immediate breakthrough, beginning to focus on these details can spell the beginning of a course change.
Finally, a program note - the “show notes” will be available later in the day, and I’ll post them here when they are.
Enjoy!