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Enrolling Your Child In Beginner Drum LessonsBy admin on January 19, 2010 | No Comments
You all know those people who have their children involved in so many extracurricular activities that the poor kid probably recites his Spanish homework while playing soccer and taps on the bench with his fingers to practice his piano lesson as he waits for his turn on the field. Just the thought of it is exhausting.
To be sure, there is enormous value in the extracurricular activities that schools offer and a lot of benefit to private lessons. However, parents should be careful not to overwhelm a child with more activities than he or she can handle, for fear of exhaustion or distracting him or her from school work.
Typically, one to two extracurricular lessons or activities per child is more than any family can schedule and manage. Before you invest all that time and money into giving your child ice skating lessons, oboe lessons, beginner drum lessons or whatever else pops up, you should ask yourself if he or she has a bent towards that field and sincerely wants to follow it through.
Now, there is nothing wrong with offering a few fun activities to a child just to let him or her explore some new subjects. The learning experience and variety will show your child things he or she may not have been exposed to otherwise and broaden the child’s scope of the world. The experience of trying new things is in and of itself a lesson to be learned.
So how do you decide between the beginner drum lesson and the cello lessons? Well, this will rely heavily on knowing your child well. If he or she is very musically inclined, then perhaps you do not have to choose, but offer both courses and let him or her get a little taste of both before narrowing it down to one.
However, if your family is extremely busy, then practically, the dates and times the course is offered may have a lot to do with what you are able to work into your schedule. If the beginner drum lessons land on the night when you already have an obligation, then the choice is simple.
We all know that things aren’t that cut and dry. Inevitably, your child will want nothing more than to have those beginner drum lessons that fall on the night of your prior obligation. When it comes to music lessons, there is typically another tutor or course in your local area.
If you are at a loss to find a music teacher in your area, stop by a local music store. Ask the clerk or manager for a referral of someone offering lessons in the instrument you wish to master. Local music stores are filled with employees and patrons who also love to teach music to others.
If the local music store is of no help to you, then talk to the music director at school, or even a music director at a local church. These are people who are well connected to the music events and other music professionals in your area. These people will be able to give you advice and direct you where you can find the best teachers for your child’s music education.
Once you have found a music teacher to offer your child beginner drum lessons setting a routine meeting schedule will help you keep your family in order. Of course, after those drum lessons begin and you hear drumming at all hours of the night, you may wish he or she had chosen the cello after all.
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Should You Listen To Your Mother And Turn It Down?By admin on December 28, 2009 | No Comments
The next time you are in your room blasting the latest heavy metal record or in your garage playing drums with your band and you mother tells you to keep it down, you may want to listen to her. Although it is uncool to listen to heavy metal quietly and impossible to bust into your snare solo without taking down the house, there is some truth in your mothers warning.
The bad news is that nearly 30 million Americans are affected by hearing loss. Of that 30 million, 5.2 million are between the ages of 6-19 years old. The hearing loss in this young age group is directly related to noise exposure.
You may be thinking to yourself that your music does not harm you or that it is not that big of a deal. In reality, any real lasting damage will be irreparable.
Being exposed to intense or a duration of noise can cause tinnitus, which will cause a ringing in the ears. This ringing could be short term or long term. Consider the way your ears feel after leaving a rock concert. You walk out of the arena and the drums are still beating in your head and the world sounds muffled.
This is short term tinnitus and over time will cause permanent damage. There is no coming back for noise related damage done to your hearing. Noise damages our hearing by harming the very fine hairs in the inner ear.
Before you pass this off as another scare tactic thrown at you by adults who you think just do not want to hear loud music, you should know that the largest threat to damaging your hearing is not by playing the drums too loudly.
The most dangerous sounds are high-pitched sounds which can lead to damage so bad that it becomes difficult to understand speech or low pitched sounds. In fact, almost 16 percent of Americans have impaired speech do to noise damage.
While high-pitched sounds are harmful, a constant exposure to a high volume of noise could result in permanent hearing loss. This is usually indicated by an inability to make out conversation with the person in front of you while you are in a crowded room. Background noise and the speech of a person a feet away become hard to distinguish and the damage is not fixable.
So how do you know when things are too loud? There are decibel rules that say what level is too high, but how many among us carry around instruments to measure the noise levels in a room before we enter?
Any easy rule of thumb is that if you can picture your ears as if they were your eyes and you walked into a room and wanted to squint then it is too loud. Your eyes actually dilate and naturally squint in order to protect themselves. Unfortunately, our ears are wide open to receive every sound, for better or worse.
So consider the benefits of turning your radio down by even ten decibels or padding the garage drums so the sound is not to loud. You will still be able to enjoy your friends and music and in 20 years you will still be able to hear what they are saying to you.
You can still enjoy your rock concert with sick drums and wild mosh pits. But to make things safer, you could insert ear plugs into your ears. You will still be able to hear everything, just at a safer level.
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What You and Your Child can Gain from Drum CampBy admin on December 24, 2009 | No Comments
Having a child who enjoys playing the drums is an interesting situation that many parents have mixed feelings about. First of all, many parents do encourage their children to be musically inclined. Playing an instrument is an extracurricular activity and art that expands the mind, encourages creativity, and teaches practice and discipline. Having a child involved in playing an instrument or other activities that teaches these standards is important to many parents because it keeps children busy and away from harmful habits and activities. However, having a child who plays the drums and practices at home can become trying at times. Drum camp can be a dream come true for these parents.
Drum camp gives little drummers the chance to spend time learning how to play the drums with other children who share this same interest. Drum camp can be an extremely valuable experience to these children because it will help them to improve their skills while they make friends at the same time. All drum camps are different, but you can find a drum camp that will suit you and your child’s needs.If you have a young child who wants to learn how to play the drums for the first time, you can find a drum camp that is for beginners which focuses on teaching the basics behind how to play the drums. Like all other camps, you can enroll your child based on their age and skill. A drum camp like this one will most likely be only a few hours a day every day for a few weeks during the summer and will expose your child to the basics behind rhythm and beat and the different types of drums they can play. This experience will give your beginner drummer all they need to know to begin drumming and to decide whether pursuing this interest is something they would like to continue.
There are also drum camp options out there for more advanced drummers, some of which are overnight for extended periods of time. This is a great option for you too because it will give you a few weeks of peace and quiet around your house since you won’t need to listen to the constant drumming practice which is probably heard throughout the entire house. Enrolling your child in a drum camp such as this one will help them to improve their drumming skills quickly because they will be practicing for hours daily. When they come back they will be sure to have made lots of new friends who share their passion and they will sound much better when they do come back home and resume their practicing.
Regardless of how old your child is and how advanced they are with their drumming skills, enrolling them in a drum camp that is right for them will most likely be an extraordinary experience that they will not forget, especially if they are passionate about playing the drums. Most drum camp options offer superb instructors who will help your child refine their drum playing skills along with very nice drum equipment with all the different drums out there. Your child will get to play around on all these different types of drums and will be able to decide which one is best for them. Before you know it, your child will be a proud member of the drum line at their high school or in their own band thanks to drum camp.
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Learning to Play the Drums
If you are considering playing the drums for a band, be aware of the amount of different drums out there that you will need to learn to understand and keep rhythm on in order to be a successful drummer. Drumming is not for everyone and although it may look easy there is a lot of skill and practice required in order to be successful at it. You cannot just sit down in front of a drum and expect to be able to play it. You must first learn how to read beats and rhythm, not to mention hitting it the right way, with the right amount of force.
The best way to learn the drums from an early age is to enroll in band at school. By doing this, you are learning how to play them for free, with your peers, at school. Not only do your parents not have to pay for lessons, but you also get to hang out with friends, practice with friends, and learn from each other. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses when it comes to everything, and learning how to play the drums is no different. You will have to get all of your practice time in or after school unless your parents want to buy you a drum set, but you can still become very skilled and a great drummer pretty quickly if you take learning the drums seriously and really devote yourself to it.
By enrolling in band at school you will get a brief taste of playing the drums the first year and then you will be able to make the decision whether you want to continue playing or quit after each year. Many people make the decision that playing an instrument is not for them either because they do not enjoy it, it is too much or a commitment, or because they are not good at it. However, if you start playing the drums and you love it then you will most likely love being in band because you will get to do what you love. It is important to realize how big of a commitment you are making each year if you do decide to continue playing the drums in band at school. Once you get to high school band will become especially time consuming and you will need to be extremely committed to playing the drums if you do decide to stay in band because there are practices in the summer before school starts, after school, during school, and there are competitions on the weekends.
If you stick with drums throughout high school, chances are you are pretty decent at playing them. If this is the case and you are very passionate about what you are doing, you should go on to continue playing the drums after high school. Making up your own band or joining your college band are ways to continue doing what you love after high school is over. Having a passion for an instrument or any other activity is an important part in making up your identity and figuring out who you are and what you want in life. If you have any interest in all at playing the drums go ahead and give it a try. If you do not like it then you can quit, but if you love it then making that decision will have a positive impact on your life as long as you continue playing.
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