Lessons
I’m ready to get serious about playing, what should I do?
I’ve never touched a drum, where do I start?
I’ve been playing for a while, how can I learn some new stuff?
Lessons are the best way to get focused, improve your skills, AND your expression on the instrument! I teach drum set and mallet instruments in all styles, tech, reading, soloing. Drop me a line here about setting up a lesson or questions about lessons and what they can do for you. Here are the three necessary aspects for learning music, which I teach and implement in lessons.
1. Technique / Reading – These are the ABCs, vocabulary, and grammar of music, you’ve got to learn them. It also includes rudiments, different styles, and soloing. If you don't want to learn them you never will, change you mind and you will do great things.
2. Listening – Listen to as much music as possible. We are a culmination of everything we've ever heard. The more we listen the more refined our ears become. After all, if you never heard anyone else speak, how could you speak yourself?
3. Performing – This is the reason anyone plays an instrument. This is musical conversation or expression, and it is magical. When you step on the stage knowing that you have worked relentlessly day after day to learn your music and refine your technique you will perform and reach out to the audience with confidence. That is true musicainship.
I teach out my home in Watertown MA most days. You can email me colby@drumcolby.com about that.
Best, and be well,
-Colby