Set Your Goals, lol i mean for the summer =)

[Berk]

Everybody list ideas/rudiments/beats/grooves or whatever that they are going to work on and then post their progress. At the end of the summer, Perhaps check back and see if you acomplished them =).


I want to get my doubles better. Like really good and strong.
I also want to to get a steady hardcore/powerpop band going and do some gigging.

And save up for a new 22" or 24" dream ride.

[Futuro]

to get more paper and get a fly car

[Little Android Man]

Well...

Since i am pretty much garunteed a spot at snare drum (someone has to learn for when the senior is gone) I really have to step up my game. I have to work on my reading skills and chops A LOT over the summer.
My Left hand is a little weak, so i really have to work on that.

So i am planning on trying to get ALL 40 rudiments up to atleast the Gold level (according to VF website) and a select few to high platinum low diamond (maybe.) And i am planning to really work on a lot from The Rudimental Cookbook.


And for set goals, right now i am on a good track with my progress (since my new teacher) So im just going to go with him, and try and get atleast 45 minutes to an hour of practice in a day (since i am not home every single day in the summer)


and gear wise, i really just want to replace my saluda crash.
a china would be dandy though.

[poeticdrums]

To sock away enough money to finish off my home studio and record at least two albums. Also save up enough to replace my Iron Cobra double with an Axis longboard double, and rehead my drums, of course

Drumming wise, improve my hands a bit, play more metal, and hopefully teach myself how to gravity blast and be better at single foot blast beats.

[Berk]

Oh and I want to get my Blasting skills up to date

[fishbulb]

Since this was my idea and i told Berk to do this, i'll contribute.

First: work through rudiments; speed, sight reading, knowledge, and application.

Second: record drums/music with my brother and work on EQing/mastering/generally recording.

Third: change my setup drastically because i've had the same one for the past 2 years.

[Bonham#1!]

I wanna work and get the new kit I want. Unfortunately I dislike my job...but itll be worth it.

[fishbulb]

Who doesn't hate their job?

[Berk]

If I worked at St. Johns, I wouldnt.

[fishbulb]

I haven't started working, so i wouldn't know.

[Bonham#1!]

Lots of people dont hate their jobs. Both my parents enjoy theirs.

[Berk]

It be cool to build a stave snare on my own.

[_R2D2_]

get some gigs for my band

[Sunshine]

Honestly, my goal is to pack up and go to college.
Sad but true.
But nah, I hope to learn whatever I can between now and then, mainly, building up speed and control [or should I say control and speed].

[fishbulb]

[or should I say control and speed].

Yes, yes you should.

[Josiah]

Hmm prob just shed more, work on some minor things about phrasing and such.

[billdrum]

TBH, I'm working on a couple of marimba pieces this summer, including a Dave Samuels transcription that's currently kicking my butt!

[crazyguy832]

Absolutely nothing.

This is my last summer before uni, I'm slacking off.

>_<

If I set no goals, I always get further in life. When I set goals, I suddenly realize how far away they are and give up.

[TTTSNB]

Working on rudimental and linear funk grooves ala Future Sounds. Playing more solidly to a click. Jazz and latin playing. Double bass and blasts ( I just joined a metal band, I need to get these back to par... :( )

[kc1296426]

Goal: Practice more, use a metronome for once, get songs/gigs with band.

The end.

[A Dead Modernist]

The root of drumming: singles and doubles lol aka everything

[Win A Rabbit]

Set Your Goals ftw. :)

and to make this not spam, work on my hybrids :)

:)

[santi3hg]

Yeah totally thought of the band. Which I'm listening to right now.

TO heal my leg and then get back to working on basics.

[Mirror.Circuit]

Oh and I want to get my Blasting skills up to date

it's all in the wrists.
Ps:Who are you to say what is real,and what is fake!

[Seafroggys]

get more gigs, record more bands, and also clean up. I'm at a point in my playing where all I can do is to just clean up what I already do.

[Undisco Kidd]

Not die from marching band.

35 pound bass = :(

35 pound bass for 13 hours a day during the week of long sessions = :( :( :(

[Little Android Man]

Not die from marching band.

35 pound bass = :(

35 pound bass for 13 hours a day during the week of long sessions = :(

Im hopefully moving to snare next year, so no more back breaking 35 lbs bass for me :) :)

[ludvista29]

I'm hoping just to get better and get a new crash!

[Retarded Chipple]

I had this exact idea! I was gonna start a thread like this on January 1st 2008, then bump it 6 months on to see how we're all doing then bump it again on January 1st 2009!!! Oh well, looks like I've been beaten to it :p


I'm not really sure what I wanna do...I guess continue working on moeller with my teacher. Before the end of summer I definitely want to finish committing the 40 rudiments to memory and make a start on New Breed.

Also carry on working through Stick Control in the various ways I have been, re-familiarise myself with hand drumming, work on brushes some more and perhaps buy Groove Essentials and work through that...

[Pleaseme]

To build Octobans. Aside from building other things, I want some low pitched Octobans to dot around my kit.

Become stronger playing Latin of different kinds, and to own the Mosambique groove.

Also I was to make my half time shuffle stronger, and work on the varients of the triplet shuffle.

[DrummingBen]

Get better.





No seriously.

[oliv_da_skinmasher]

Power on with my band and get gigging properly. Start work on my bands ep finally. Get working on smoothing off my rudiments

[Talos]

Work on chops
Work on double bass
Find my metrenome
Practice more

But not necesarily in that order

[oliv_da_skinmasher]

I'd like to work on my chops but I never really get round to it. I mean i'd love to be able to whip out a quick lil solo but it don't matter as much as other things

[MNdrummer21]

Goal: By the end of the summer, be as good as Vinnie. ;)

[Retarded Chipple]

Vinnie who?

Vinnie Paul?

[MNdrummer21]

lol no THE Vinnie.(vinnie colaiuta)
case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYDbptv2p_o
I don't even know who Vinnie Paul is.

[Retarded Chipple]

Who?

He's pretty meh. Can't keep time for sh!t. Listen to him, keeps speeding up. What a hack.

[bobby__johnny]

my goal? a new kit.

and the time/availability to actually PLAY

7 months away for school, and having my bro move back home doesnt make it easy :(

[paraply]

I don't really have any goals, I just wanna practise more and get better and play with other people.

[crazyguy832]

I can't tell if you're serious there, Chipple... ye gods, I hope you're not.

[Retarded Chipple]

Lucky for you, I'm being sarcastic.

[Chester]

drumming will be hard for me this summer because im going to a summer minority program at MIT for 6 and a half weeks, but il bring some sticks and a drumpad along with my guitar and bass, so i would like to write 3 songs for my band and then record them with the band at my house when iget back, but i write stuff different than what the band wants lol so that prolly wont work.

[drummguy731]

Get stronger pocket, get a cowbell, work for cymbals, get a really nice set, tighten up chops and rudiments, get more comfortable in odd time sigs, get gigging with my other band, get a jazz combo started, and get better with brushes.

[BrekelmansInAbsentia]

Hoping to be able to play punk beats at 250bpm by september. not the biggest goal, but therell be an opening in in a local kickass ska band when their drummer goes to university in waterloo.

[fishbulb]

get more comfortable in odd time sigs, get gigging with my other band,

I definitely need to groove in some odd time signatures.

Also a semi-realistic goal: get a gig. I don't care who i play with, but play a show in front of people.

[Josiah]

drumming will be hard for me this summer because im going to a summer minority program at MIT for 6 and a half weeks, but il bring some sticks and a drumpad along with my guitar and bass, so i would like to write 3 songs for my band and then record them with the band at my house when iget back, but i write stuff different than what the band wants lol so that prolly wont work.

Do you mean M.I.?


M.I.T. is a technical school in boston, I was unaware they had much, if any, music program.

[iamjoe2]

goal 1: pimp my drum set

a. get a pearl rack
b. get a second bass drum
c. get some more cymbals(including another crash and a splash)
d. build some octobans
e. get an 18 in floor tom

all for under $350 hopefully

as far as drumming id really like to beef up my double bass to at least 16ths at 180 bpm and be able to playt damn near anything(within reason) over it with my hands
id also really like to work on my jazz chops
as well as get into somekind of hard rock band

[fishbulb]

$350 for all that?

Also, 16th double bass with anything over it with the hands is easy. Even waltz's (Bass Hi-Hat Hi-Hat) are easy with anthing over them. Now paradiddles are a different story.

[Berk]

LRLLRLRR =)

yeah

[slim_jim147]

I want to get a job, work, and get an electronic kit (but in the next years)

[iamjoe2]

$350 for all that?

Also, 16th double bass with anything over it with the hands is easy. Even waltz's (Bass Hi-Hat Hi-Hat) are easy with anthing over them. Now paradiddles are a different story.

it sounds easy but im still trying to get the technique down, its slow but im making progress

as far as the money...

i love ebay

i got a pearl powershifter eliminator 2002c for $90!!!! its all like that, plus ive got a old drum set so to get matching drums there like 30-50 bux

[drummguy731]

Ehh, I wouldn't get a used rack. But whatever you want to do, I just can never trust Ebay.

[iamjoe2]

i trust ebay as long as i know the product im getting is good, some people just go on there and buy cheap stuff, then wish they wouldent have, but usually if they would have bought it new it be just as crappy.

[Zildjian]

my goal... umm, be employee of the month at work

master my 4 way independence

[Janbacca]

Stick Control, New Breed, Advanced Techniques, etc. :P

[fishbulb]

my goal... umm, be employee of the month at work

master my 4 way independence

Peart is still working on that one, bro.

[TTTSNB]

^ reminds me. The extreme interdependence warmups are kicking my ***.

[Sharkey Boy]

I want to paradiddle on 3 different girls pataflaflas this summer :naughty:

:chug:






/end old forum joke ;-)

[Retarded Chipple]

Haha, I lol'd!

[MeaninglessPhoto]

I wanna make plans on a new kit. I have a friend whos skilled in drum making, so hopefully I will make my own custom set before the end of the year.

[Panopticon]

Get an e-kit (probly for next year)
Finish up my cymbal setup (18" Crash and maybe a 20" Custom sabian china)
Get some gigs with my band (we've already got some stuff lined up.)
Get laid.

[fishbulb]

Crap, i thought of another goal but i can't remember it right now.

[Odin88]

at this point my goals are to stabalize my playing, and have it going in almost perfect accuracy, increase double pedal speed and endurace overall, andexplore new parts to add to my rig.

[darkevent89]

Become an overall better musician.

[Sunshine]

Y'know what my goal is?
Get my band's newest "songs" down.
Seriously, its like, if I play the same thing overandoverandover, it doesn't matter HOW simple it is, after awhile the feel and sound start changing in my head, and suddenly, I can't play right anymore =/

[oliv_da_skinmasher]

Get all the songs nailed for my bands gig.

[Futuro]

Peart is still working on that one, bro.

pearts independance isnt very good tbh.

[Ollie The Drumming Legend]

Y'know what my goal is?
Get my band's newest "songs" down.
Seriously, its like, if I play the same thing overandoverandover, it doesn't matter HOW simple it is, after awhile the feel and sound start changing in my head, and suddenly, I can't play right anymore =/

I find it hard practising band songs or coming up with parts without the actual song to hear. We sometimes record a really bad recording then all go off and have ideas of what to do/play etc then come back and throw it all into a bit melting pot of music and... well mostly music tbh, at least that's the intention:confused:


But yeah goal is to become amazing at drums/

Or just practise a lot, I've not had enough time what with exams and such, so just practising rudiments etc and exercises and simple songs a lot, developing ideas, building it up, encorporate the new ideas into my playing, etc.

Or I might just go on holiday and go out in the sunshine.

[fishbulb]

pearts independance isnt very good tbh.

I just remembered that he said that he's still working on four way independence in Anatomy of a Drum Solo. That reminds me, i still gotta watch A Work in Progress.

[MNdrummer21]

Yeah but what Peart does in terms of independence pales in comparison with the sort of absurd things guys like Donati, Minneman, and even Lang are playing.

[DillingerEscp]

Oh and I want to get my Blasting skills up to date

blasting skills up to date, pretty much the same as 10 years ago.

[Myslik]

I'd like to finish fixing up my new music room and get a nice computer with some recording eq. setup for my guitarist when he gets back from europe.

It's a welcome home suprise hah.

-Paul

[Berk]

blasting skills up to date, pretty much the same as 10 years ago.

I meant, Better.

[oliv_da_skinmasher]

I'd like to finish fixing up my new music room and get a nice computer with some recording eq. setup for my guitarist when he gets back from europe.

It's a welcome home suprise hah.

-Paul

Oh man I wish I could afford a music room(and be able to use it, damn people next door)

[440561]

Do loads of band practice (hopefully I'll be in 2 bands by then)

And go out more, I hardly ever go out, so Im gonna try and impove my social life by going out at least once or twice a week lol.

[Ollie The Drumming Legend]

Get an e-kit (probly for next year)
Finish up my cymbal setup (18" Crash and maybe a 20" Custom sabian china)
Get some gigs with my band (we've already got some stuff lined up.)
Get laid.

In that order? :smoke:

[fishbulb]

Currently accomplished/worked on: Absolutely nothing.

Remaining Goals: All of them.

[Ollie The Drumming Legend]

Currently accomplished/worked on: Absolutely nothing.

Remaining Goals: All of them.

Ah summer hasn't started yet. Starts on monday afternoon for me, last exam!!!!!:chug:

So it's not really summer so it's ok to suck at drumming right now like me, I have a good excuse :wave:

[fishbulb]

I've been on summer for a week now but my parents have been gone so i have done absolutely nothing as far as bettering myself.

I've basically been partying and playing video games. And coding actionscript in Flash.

[Berk]

My doubles have gotten faster, But they still suck.

[Little Android Man]

meh, im getting better with my Rudiments, but i mostly just started practicing them like a week ago.

and i have another goal:
perfect trad grip

[iamjoe2]

i just bought 2 good cymbals off ebay for a very good price so thats 1 of my goals complete(oh and a nice pearl cymbal stand for even cheaper!)

i havent practiced rudimental stuff NEARLY as much as i should have this summer so now thats one of my goals

[fishbulb]

Ahh, trad grip is so cool, i should work on it.

[drummguy731]

Yes, it is very cool. I play a lot with it, but I need to improve the speed and accuracy of it.

[Quinto]

smoke less then 3 oz's
get a job
learn to play mambo
make a good band
**** bitches

oh shlt my doo i already got a job, if only someone played bass that wasnt annoying, and didnt suck

[fishbulb]

Since this was my idea and i told Berk to do this, i'll contribute.

First: work through rudiments; speed, sight reading, knowledge, and application.

Second: record drums/music with my brother and work on EQing/mastering/generally recording.

Third: change my setup drastically because i've had the same one for the past 2 years.

First: Started working on it, not consistently though.

Second: Probably work on it today/tomorrow.

Third: Haven't had time/too lazy.

[oliv_da_skinmasher]

Get all the songs nailed for my bands gig.

Done

[fishbulb]

Followup:

I do believe that the time has come for a followup on what you have and have not worked on.

First: work through rudiments; speed, sight reading, knowledge, and application.

Second: record drums/music with my brother and work on EQing/mastering/generally recording.

Third: change my setup drastically because i've had the same one for the past 2 years.

First: I've worked through all of them, not really on speed much, no sight reading, a little knowledge, but no application.

Second: I did record for a couple weeks but not much EQing, no mastering.

Third: Changed from a standard five piece to a 1 up 2 down which i am pretty fond of at the moment.

I definitely need to groove in some odd time signatures.

Also a semi-realistic goal: get a gig. I don't care who i play with, but play a show in front of people.

I worked on odd time signatures whilst jamming with my brother (guitar).

I did play a little show with some friends. It was for a "Harry potter party" for the last book coming out. I played for probably 40 people, it was pretty fun. Note: I only went to play music, i did not want anything to do with the harry potter books.

Ahh, trad grip is so cool, i should work on it.

Did not once play in trad grip.

[Berk]

Tbh, its still the end of the summer but yeah:
Everybody list ideas/rudiments/beats/grooves or whatever that they are going to work on and then post their progress. At the end of the summer, Perhaps check back and see if you acomplished them =).


I want to get my doubles better. Like really good and strong.
I also want to to get a steady hardcore/powerpop band going and do some gigging.

And save up for a new 22" or 24" dream ride.

My doubles are WAY better than they ever were. Like mad. I've started a band. We practice 2-3 times a week. I have not saved up for the dream ride.


Oh and I want to get my Blasting skills up to date
My blasts still suck monkey lulz.


It be cool to build a stave snare on my own.
I was planning on building one but I never got the wood.

[iamjoe2]

goal 1: pimp my drum set

a. get a pearl rack
b. get a second bass drum
c. get some more cymbals(including another crash and a splash)
d. build some octobans
e. get an 18 in floor tom

all for under $350 hopefully
a/b/e not happening due to space restrictions
c-SUCCESS +2 crashes and a splash, sabian bell coming soon hopefully(2 crash plus splash = $145)
d. hopefully coming soon

as far as drumming id really like to beef up my double bass to at least 16ths at 180 bpm and be able to playt damn near anything(within reason) over it with my hands
FAILED MISERABLY double bass chops still suck

id also really like to work on my jazz chops
SUCCESS much better
as well as get into somekind of hard rock band
FAILED

[MNdrummer21]

Goal: By the end of the summer, be as good as Vinnie. ;)

Done and done. :)

[A Dead Modernist]

Damn summer ended along time ago over here.

[oliv_da_skinmasher]

Power on with my band and get gigging properly.

Band may be spliting up due to musical differences

Start work on my bands ep finally.

Started, not goin' too bad.

Get working on smoothing off my rudiments.

didn't have time

Get all the songs nailed for my bands gig.

lol just managed to get my guitarist to learn em

I'd like to work on my chops but I never really get round to it. I mean i'd love to be able to whip out a quick lil solo but it don't matter as much as other things


Did no work on the ole' chops

[Aaron]

Gig.

[Retarded Chipple]

I'm not really sure what I wanna do...I guess continue working on moeller with my teacher.

Continued to work on Moeller. Been working on it alot more now, slowly starting to get somewhere, making decent progress after a long time of not practicing enough and not getting anywhere!

Before the end of summer I definitely want to finish committing the 40 rudiments to memory and make a start on New Breed.I pretty much have the 40 rudiments committed to memory. Could be slightly more confident with some of them but I believe I've done pretty well.
I made a start on New Breed last week. So thats good.

Also carry on working through Stick Control in the various ways I have been, re-familiarise myself with hand drumming, work on brushes some more and perhaps buy Groove Essentials and work through that...
Been doing Stick Control quite regularly, every day I've practiced, I've worked out of Stick Control in one form or another.

Not done any hand drumming! Is a very naughty boy :rolleyes:

Worked quite a bit with brushes though, so thats ok :)


Haven't bought Groove Essentials. I've been more than occupied with the material I'm working on now...

[fastlane]

i like the harry potter books.... lol!

[iamjoe2]

^?^^^

random?

[Futuro]

to get more paper and get a fly car

succes niggas

[ironman4444]

I tottally missed out on drumming this summer, my guitarist quit our band and my other band has a scene kid for a guitarist.