the worst teachers thread

[eduardo]

Taking classes with Buddy Rich......a NIGHTMARE!!!!!

[Sillyman]

Really? Why? was he too strict or he just didn't know how to teach i hear strories of him that he didn't know how to read and that he had really bad mood a lot of times.

[eduardo]

Really? Why? was he too strict or he just didn't know how to teach i hear strories of him that he didn't know how to read and that he had really bad mood a lot of times.

Sillyman,

Buddy was a madman, a lunatic. Please go to http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/5916/brcomic1.html and listen to the tapes.

[Blastman]

I once got a lesson from a guy who was this cities "PREMIER DRUM INSTRUCTOR!!!"
I asked him for beginner's lesson's and i wanted to work specifically on snare technique [i thought this was really important in learning the ABC's of drumming].

Anyway: this drum instructor didn't have a clue on how to execute the basic 26 American
Rudiments. He said "all you need to learn is the single stroke and double and you'll be fine."

I was quite taken back because I expect a drum tutor to know the rudiments [at least!]. Consequently i didn't go back for lessons as i thought that it was a waste of time and money.

[MaltBuddow3]

lars ulrich

[dcdrmwthme]

I once got a lesson from a guy who was this cities "PREMIER DRUM INSTRUCTOR!!!"
I asked him for beginner's lesson's and i wanted to work specifically on snare technique [i thought this was really important in learning the ABC's of drumming].

Anyway: this drum instructor didn't have a clue on how to execute the basic 26 American
Rudiments. He said "all you need to learn is the single stroke and double and you'll be fine."

I was quite taken back because I expect a drum tutor to know the rudiments [at least!]. Consequently i didn't go back for lessons as i thought that it was a waste of time and money.

Lots of great drum teachers dont enforce the rudiments. Any good teacher should know most of them, but whether or not they use it as part of their teaching is a different story.

[Kinetic drummer]

doubles, singles and flams! for me there are just 3 rudiments!

[The_Setite]

doubles, singles and flams! for me there are just 3 rudiments!

I think there are only 2 (singles and doubles). I consider the flam a collapsed single stroke roll. Although when I teach I teach that there are four, singles doubles flams and paradiddles (cos of the dynamics involved in paradiddles). All the others can be made from these.

[(K)now(F)orever]

^I would think flams as collapsed doubles strokes, b/c when you play a right flam the right hand plays on the beat, then if you to play a left flam after, the grace not is a right stroke, therefore you could look it as a doubles, and the same if you play a left to right flam. Developing drags/ruffs are also important as well, they help your control of doubles and ghost notes, espically in grooves.

[Matthias]

I think there are only 2 (singles and doubles). I consider the flam a collapsed single stroke roll. Although when I teach I teach that there are four, singles doubles flams and paradiddles (cos of the dynamics involved in paradiddles). All the others can be made from these.

Yeah, but with an emphasis on
a) the double and triple paradiddle and
b) the different rhythmic combinations (as triplets, quintuplets, sixtuplets etc).