everything's cool man liew90kw !

i think proper learning n reading is the most important thing. i never have those two and now im at the point where it is very hard to advance. (or is his caused by lack of talent? haha) so, if you have the opportunity, go ahead with classes.

its like yes, you can learn everything by yourself, but a degree will definately helps you in your life in many way

This post has been edited by Namqul: Nov 3 2007, 10:44 AM

^drumming has its ups and downs in progressing. I got stuck at the same level for say.... 15 months before i actually started getting better. It happens every now and then when you run out of new things to learn. Widen your music selection, it usually helps some.

Apparently the program director has a really cool name too..Rocky

lol now that, i didn't notice.
But if they have another 50 hours of drumming, I'm thinking of joining.

3 days without a post? what u guyz been doing? anyway, anyone have knowledge on cowbells? im planning to get 1 using with pedal, any brand recommendation? or any specific beater needed for cowbels?

with pedals? cool, but maybe u can try those that are mounted on a drum set first? u can always get the pedal for the cowbell later on when u feel like upgrading.

tama cowbells are cool, i've tried a few at bents last time.
me myself own a zildjian cowbell, sounds great to be honest. was quite interesting at first when i bought, but kinda been left out already. haha.

go for one dude, it might be interesting.

remember my set is righty n im lefty? well im trying to occupy my right foot with the cowbell n my left foot on the pedal. so, its like a training for lefty who plays right handed kit. ahha. plus, i got an extra pedal after buying the gibraltars. so instead of leaving it to rust, im thinking of cowbells. and i cant seem to get rid of the 'took' 'took' 'took' cowbells sound from my head. lol!

Go to a chinese temple, it'll drill those clave into your head...

try playing with BIG sticks people. It's a lot of fun
Especially on the cowbell and cymbals.

This post has been edited by liew90kw: Nov 7 2007, 09:44 PM

hey guys..anywhere to learn drums from pro in KL area?

Define Pro???

someone who is better than noob?

haha..wat i meant by pro ...is someone who is really professional..lol..mayb i'm asking too much..hehe..

hmm..mayb like someone who knows his instruments well n plays for international gigs,events,clinics and etc..lol..tat would be great!

There are only a handful of drummers that plays clinic in Malaysia. And one of them i know is pretty boring(not gonna mention names, but those who visits 'there' often will know who). Usually pros charge pretty high rates, so go to a music school they're pretty qualified.

yup, I agreed. Go to places like bentley or yamaha, Their instructors are pretty qualified.

*not a drummer*
But i know someone who can teach drums in subang area. He currently holds two msian records at age of 19 for drumming, if you consider that pro lol. Then again, theres only a handful of drummers in malaysia, so you drummers probably already know who im talking about xD yep thats him, i personally know him >_>

speaking of classes, anyone knows where i can learn to properly tune my drum? or is it a self learning thing? i know about tension tuner thing, but i want to learn the manual way, plus the tension thing just let u know that the skin is at the same tension level right? i want to learn how to tune to a sound that i wanted.

hey dude, try this video, very helpful. there's another video from weckl too, but then i cant find it over youtube.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pH_RoUQyv5A

there're loads of related videos there too, very helpful

This post has been edited by chuckenscream: Nov 12 2007, 01:41 PM

Yeah, Youtube is a good place to start. I did saved some pages on drum tuning some time ago:
http://www.stack.nl/~erwint/multi/drums.html
http://www.drumsdatabase.com/tuning-drums.htm
http://www.waywood.com/tuningd.htm