How many years have you played?

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I was wandering how many years you have played drums? I have played for 7 years. I guess I am ok. anyway just wanted to know how many years you have played. Thanks Matt
 
I've been playing drums for about 3 weeks. ARRRRGH. It's a lot harder than it looks, isn't it...especially for a stupid guitar player! :)

Slackmaster 2000
 
the best 8 years of my life so far have been spent on the kit

stick it out slack, i'm sure if a drummer (apparently being of low intellegence) can play drums then a guitarist (apparently being of high intellegence) can too...:D
 
I've been at it about 4 months. I use a Roland V Club kit, and you can hear it on my song "Disconnected Strings" at the link below. :)

I recorded this tune after I had been playing drums for about 3 weeks...I also wrote it, produced, and played rhythm guitars and keys.

Man, it took a LOT of tries to get a drum take I was happy with! I didn't want to do any punches with the drums so I just kept playing it over and over until I got a take I could live with ;)

Neil Peart was my main inspiration to take up the drums.

Entry Level; melodic, ethereal rock and more! :^)
 
I've played for 40 years (I stated at 5 years old), I been gigging for over 30 years (several years full time) and recorded for about 25 years (back when they used "tape"). My dad was a big band drummer, so I grew up with drums.

I haven't actually "practised" drums much in the last 10 years, since I spend most of my time working on my keyboard and guitar chops (but since I still gig 1-3 times a week I keep my drum chops up).

For those of you who are relatively new to playing - I can only say, stick with it. Being a musician for almost my entire life has enriched me in many ways and given me many good friends (I've got musician friends that I have worked with on and off for over 20 years).

I will say the best way to improve is to play with as many different people (in as many different styles) as you possibly can.
 
I've been playing for about 8 or 9 years. Awesome stuff, constantly learning. Can't wait to go to school for it. Best of luck to all........Josh
 
'Bout half a year... but I'm lucky to get any practice more than 3 or 4 times a month, seeing as how I don't have a kit of my own. I spend a lot of my time just sitting at my desk while hitting my knees and tapping my feet... it's surprising how much improvement I've gained just doing that.

Isaiah
 
Started when I was 15 and have been playin' for 5 years.

-tkr
 
I've been playing for a little over 3 years. Drummers were SO hard for me to find that I started playing so I didn't need one to record. Now I'm an addict. The thing I like most about drums is that I'm constantly getting better, while I feel like my guitar playing has really levelled out over the past few years.

latest drum work: http://www.mp3.com/jacknife_nippit
 
hey gnarled you're probably about to hit a nice plateau in your learning curve, it took about four years for my first to hit and it lasted nearly a year, i almost came to the point of giving up, i guess i just got to comfortable, since then the learning curve has flantened a couple of time but i never let i get that servere anymore.... i hope this don't happen to you!
 
Started playing in 1970.

Played very seriously, including trying to make a living at it on and off, from 1977-1983.

Still know very little about the art of truly expressive percussion. I guess that if it were easy, everyone would be doing it... Just like recording, or producing, or songwriting.

I wouldn't have missed a moment of it so far; it is a journey, not a destination. Ignore everything else I say except for that.
 
I've been playing for almost 2 years. I'm a guitar player so drums are secondary.
 
Playin Drums

Christ it has been about 20 years. Yup ya got ta take every gig you can playing everything you can. Then you can be a sage.

Have fun.
 
17 years.......(GEEZ!!!! it's been that long??)

still lovin' every minute of it....
 
It's really been that long?????

I'm 34, so that means I've been doing this for (choke, gag, gulp, cough...) 21 years!!???!!!

...Best activity I've ever under took...except sex....well, maybe.
 
20 years and as many sets, but still can't record a "great" sound. :(

I've been on my first electronic kit (V-Studio) for about 3 months and the recording is starting to look up. So many knobs, buttons and software, but so little time! :D


Tip to new drummers: Let the music take you where it will. Don't burn yourself up trying to emmulate someone else's style. If you got rhythm, your groove will sound cool even if it's different from the way someone else does it.

While practicing (on everything from kitchen table to fender of friend's car), do "change ups" with your chops. Variations will always turn you on to new grooves.
When you happen upon one of these newly discovered riffs, RECORD IT so you don't forget it!!! :cool:
 
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