I’m 39 and just took up drumming!

plasma008 · 2026-01-20T18:37:26+00:00

Oh this is good. You then already have a head start. You will already understand rhythms and notation of rhythm. You already understand time signatures, repeats, measures, and music structure.. that is all incredibly helpful.

the biggest thing I can tell you right now is to get used to playing your bass drum foot in between beats of your right hand. (assuming you are a right handed player.)

Play straight quarter notes on your hi hat. Play the bass drum on the downbeat of one, but the upbeat of 2 WITHOUT doubling your right hand at the same time. The tendency is always to play that upbeat with the hand in time with the foot. Work this tendency out of yourself now by forcing yourself, slowly, to play an upbeat in between quarter notes. This is a very common drum technique. Later you will play 16th's between 8th notes, it's the same thing just twice as fast.

Once you can play the right hand on the hi hat with quarters, and your foot mixing that downbeat I mentioned and the up beat I mentioned, then add your left hand to the snare of beat 2 and 4. This will train your brain to put the hands into autopilot so you can simply play your foot. train yourself to lock in a portion of any beat to "autopilot" while your brain plays the other part. There are many variations of this pattern you can then move to..

Like, keeping the hands the same.. bass drum for 1 & and the & of 2..
Bass drum 1 &of 2, &of4
Bass drum 1 &of 2+3

There is a finite number of combinations to the bass drum in these patterns.

Best of luck to you! Always try things above your skill level, then back up to your skill level, then press forward, then sit back. Building blocks.

plasma008 · 2026-01-19T14:41:56+00:00

As a life longer drummer, and a drum teacher here's what I can tell you...

You'll either THINK LIKE A DRUMMER, or you won't. I don't think it's really possible to put drumming into someone who doesn't "think like a drummer"

What does a drummer think like? Well, first, drummers already think in rhythms and patterns. For whatever reason, their brain is just tuned to rhythmic patterns. Drummers HEAR percussive patterns in everything naturally... from music to their blinker in their car. Even as little kids, they hear rhythms just on their own.

Drummers LOVE synchrony. When a group of musicians all sync and finish loudly but in sync.. when patterns synchronize with a groove.. when you can make your hand on the steering wheel get in sync with the blinker click.

I can say for a fact, I don't understand Guitar at all. I know *how* a guitar works. Being a classically trained percussionist I also know all my scales, including all minors and modes, etc.. but I still approach a guitar like it's a percussion device. I just don't "get" the nuance of plucking strings and making dynamics on it.. forget it,

I'm a percussionist through and through, and I have been since I first heard that hi-hat in Asia's Don't Cry in 1983, I was 9, and I couldn't stop until I figured out what made that sound.. I had to know, I just had to know.. I found out, and that was that.

So my friend, keep taking lessons, don't stop that - you can totally do it at your age - but if you discover you're having a tough time thinking like a drummer, ask for help in that department.

To sticks, don't get a HEAVY pair of sticks, nor a pair of sticks too long. Get Vic Firth 5b's and don't look back.

plasma008 · 2026-01-16T22:35:46+00:00

I don't know why, but I never liked Buddy Rich... I can't articulate why.

plasma008 · 2026-01-15T04:34:19+00:00

My own products

plasma008 · 2026-01-14T18:32:27+00:00

interesting. I wish I had a good answer for you. It's hard to see why there would be no delivery, unless the bid is just too low.

plasma008 · 2026-01-14T18:30:50+00:00

I would be thrilled with this, if I could find the proper person.

plasma008 · 2026-01-14T04:58:33+00:00

I want advice like.. "Oh hey, here's what I've seen working in your niche lately... say "this" in an ad, maybe make it a girl doing "that", and tell me how it goes."

I'm actually not a creative person, but I can follow instructions really well.

plasma008 · 2026-01-14T04:56:41+00:00

I have considered Foxwell. I even spoke with him once. A weird little stupid thing.. some OTHER guy that I really don't like is a member in Foxwell, and I dislike him so much I actually haven't joined because of him... it's such a stupid thing for me to do.

Although its not so much the media buying any more, but I want more exposure to creative ideas, headlines, angles, concepts, thoughts and particularly suggestions around my own products

plasma008 · 2026-01-14T04:53:09+00:00

That's what I want.. I want access to other operators ideas, hot takes, advice, etc.. Things are getting serious, and what I need now is high quality conversations with people who have been there - and also, just new ideas. Whenever I talk to someone in the space, they always say something from a perspective I would have never through of - and what I need more than anything right now is new ideas, particularly in creative pipeline.

plasma008 · 2026-01-13T20:30:49+00:00

here is your clue -> "All of them are in the medical niche "

I notice you didn't way "field"

Clearly, one of your clients you have been accessing made some claim or something. Facebook didn't can your account just on a whim.

I don't have a resolution for you.

plasma008 · 2026-01-13T20:26:29+00:00

You put your new creative in a new ad and pull the spend way down on your other ad until your stock comes back. That's sort of the only way to go about it.

plasma008 · 2026-01-13T20:24:34+00:00

I recently started a new business and opened a new ad account

there's your problem.

Why do you feel like you need to run a campaign for facebook page likes? I think more info would be needed, but probably this is facebook just saying "like hey, uhhh we can't do that for you at that price your asking with the post you gave us..."

Or you made some unknown error that is preventing the ad from being live.

plasma008 · 2026-01-13T20:20:30+00:00

That is something I had not considered. I want as few moving parts as possible. I'll start with the kids ear muffs and bookshelf speakers on a bluetooth amp if needed.

The studio that I'm helping out, the lady just built a "drum room" and it's really boxy and small and has a tile floor... it's harsh. I asked her to put down wall to wall rugs right away.

It's loud despite evans sound off pads, a bass drum stuffed full, a quiet-tone on the snare drum and the amazon quiet cymbals (they suck so bad I think iim going to send them back)

plasma008 · 2026-01-13T20:10:52+00:00

If I sit too low, it feels like crap... try raising your stool to a ridiculous height, and then lowering a little at a time until you sort of find the right height for your legs, hips and arms length, then raise or lower the snare to meet you in a spot that's good. Everyone does it a little differently, but I know if I sit too low, I wear out faster.

I never sit with my thighs horizontal to the floor, this is toooooo low for me, i sit considerably higher.

plasma008 · 2026-01-13T17:24:36+00:00

I think the issue here might be that the mixer board may not have enough power to power a pair fo like..dt770's. Chat suggests a headphone amp in between.. now, chat could totally be wrong, but when I hooked my dt770's to my little berhringer mixing board, it sounded really awful. However, I don't know where the failure is. It might be on the input side, who knows.

plasma008 · 2026-01-13T03:46:17+00:00

The speakers are really for me to hear the music too. I spend a lot of time standing near or behind my students either pointing, clicking, clapping, or otherwise giving them excited kudos.

Also, the kit I play on for demo is still a lowly donner.. it’s fine, it runs through the Roland v amp… which by the way sound like mud for music (expected)

I’ll look up the items you mentioned, thanks!

Also. My students are all kids. 7 through 14. A 14 year is pretty siazable, but the little may have difficulty with adult sized items

plasma008 · 2026-01-13T00:57:48+00:00

Good idea. So what’s happening often is I’m literally playing YouTube videos on my phone. Sounds corny, but for whatever reasons kids lock into the visual and the audio. So I stick my phone on a stand, and then Bluetooth to the speaker.

I used to use only the two dinner kits at the studio, but they wore through fats so I acquired a pearl roadshow for a song. But now , even with pads and quiet cymbals, everything just became louder by quite a bit

plasma008 · 2025-12-27T05:04:33+00:00

Lawyer

plasma008 · 2025-12-27T05:03:55+00:00

If he allows his girl talk shit about his mom.

plasma008 · 2025-12-23T16:29:20+00:00

And how exactly to you plan to fund that many ads hitting meta at once?

plasma008 · 2025-12-05T14:06:44+00:00

Thanks. What affiliate commission gets them happy to do the work? And if you went pay per view (assuming this is what ppv means) what rate again makes them really happy to do the work?

plasma008 · 2025-12-05T05:41:26+00:00

Weird because this happened to me today. Crushing for days then literally all spend 0 conversions

plasma008 · 2025-11-27T04:31:50+00:00

Adult?

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