Drummers

[Lamposts]

Anyone got any advice/tips for a newbie to the drums? Any help is appreciated! Maybe some easy Coldplay drum tabs ;)

[alyssa]

hey! glad to see another drummer on the forums. :)

 

if you can, get an instructor--he'll teach you some rudiments and some basics that can get you started. :D

 

and Coldplay is a great band to start playing a long with. most Coldplay songs have very simple drum beats which are easy to pick up, imo. if you have any trouble with a coldplay (or any song for that matter), i'll tab out the beat for you. :)

[clocks-politik]

im self taught and all you got to do is practic really, coldplays beats are simple, like alyssa said, easy to start with.

[alyssa]

im self taught and all you got to do is practic really' date=' coldplays beats are simple, like alyssa said, easy to start with.[/quote']

 

heh, i'm kinda self taught also--i have an instructor, but... uh... he doesn't help much. and i'm too shy to quit and get another instructor.

[RICK8]

:cool: At the moment I am practicing/playing along to Disturbed.pretty hard :lol:

[bonnie2789]

from the top of my head, yellow's the easiest coldplay song, it's practically the standard beat. so it shouldn't take too long to get your head around.

 

i don't know how new you are to the drums, so maybe if you let us know how long you have been playing for, even if it's only like 1 week, and what you can do so far, or whether you are completely new to it.

 

and can you read tabs? if so, here is the tab to yellow. http://www.all-good-tabs.com/drum-tabs-bands-coldplay-yellow-39667.html

 

:) good luck.

[Lamposts]

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[iccp]

oh wicked!!!! other drummers!!! im also self - taught and like the others said coldplay beats are simple

[Lamposts]

Thanks for all the helps goys and gals!!! what about tuning the snare drum?? my snare drum sounds horrible!

 

H |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|

S |----o-------o---|

B |o-o-----o-o-----|

(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + )

 

is the 1+2 etc the timing of the beat?

[alyssa]

Thanks for all the helps goys and gals!!! what about tuning the snare drum?? my snare drum sounds horrible!

 

H |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|

S |----o-------o---|

B |o-o-----o-o-----|

(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + )

 

is the 1+2 etc the timing of the beat?

 

yeah those are just the counts. :) that doesn't line up that well though. if you're making a tab on a forum you should put it in code tags, like so

 

HH|X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|X-x-X-x-X-x-X-o-|X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|X-x-X-x-X-----o-|
S |----o-------o---|----o-------o---|----o-------o---|----o-----f-f---|
B |o------oo-o--o--|o------oo-o--o--|o------oo-o--o--|o------oo----oo-|
 |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a| 

[Petra_coldplay]

I play drums since a short time also :) I teach it myself a bit and i get some instructions by the drummer in my band :)

I can drum yellow with some fills and clocks a bit :) :D

But to drum is very very cool :)

[Lamposts]

Any tips on muffling the drums??

[Marky]

Question for the drummers in here. My friend wants to know weather the age of drums will effect the sound that they make. He is considering getting a used set from ebay.

Presumably they wear with use over time, but is there an obvious change in sound quality?