School of Drums
You'll quickly discover that my many years (45 as a teacher and 63 as a drummer) are more than evident within these web pages.
It isn't about HOW MANY lessons; it's about the QUALITY of the lessons. It's about following a method that is years ahead of
all the others. It's about discovering (within the first four lessons), what many pro-drummers and TEACHERS do NOT
know (yet) after their own long years of study. It's about studying the right material in the beginning that sows the initial SEED that
will cultivate and develop that NATURAL ABILITY within you. That special ability is the prerequisite that consistently produces
greater results and greater drummers; with just HALF the time and effort . . . and as a bonus you'll enjoy 10-times the FUN. Isn't that what you are searching for? Read on; this little blurb may be the MOST IMPORTANT drum
lesson you will ever take. I'M ABOUT TO GIFT YOU WITH THE Actually, I'll help you discover it within yourself. I hope to quickly show you (the student)
where the FUN is, and if I can help you discover it quickly and easily (within four specific lessons),
you will explode like a Daisy-Cutter in a NATURAL way. I want to show how to bring your own innate
natural ability to the surface to become a major part of your future learning experience. There are drummers and then there are NATURAL drummers. I will be showing you in the next paragraphs,
how to become a NATURAL, if you aren't one already. As a career drum teacher (45 years) I've discovered many unique and different ways to cultivate and
grow the NATURAL "Seeds of Rhythm" that often lay dormant indefinitely. Within the next few paragraphs, before you take your first actual lesson, I hope to implant those seeds
into your mind, heart and soul. What you'll learn
right now (on this web page below), is the one 'magic pill' that WILL create a working professional drummer 9 times in 10. My somewhat different and unique methods of teaching have developed and evolved
over many long (and wonderful) years of private tutoring with literally thousands of great
students, ages 4 to 84. Most of my very best lessons come from the stage and the (literally)
hundreds of bands I've worked with. I hope you are as eager to learn as I am to teach. NOTE: Advanced (working) drummers may not need the upcoming lesson (below). You
may want to click away to the more advanced free lessons. Tackle my unique soloing
methods of instruction. Study the free drum solo lessons
or bass syncs. Or; pick a lesson from one of the menus . . . and dig in. However; if you aren't already a working-pro drummer, you will be wise to stay with me!
This may be the very lesson you may have missed along the way. That's why it's here,
before any of the real lessons have begun. What's coming-up on this page may be the most important lesson of all. Some are people born with the natural drumming instinct and some aren't. However, that instinct
can be easily taught to anyone at almost any age. It's a simple matter of training
the individual to listen and think like a drummer, habitually. NATURAL DRUMMING can easily be taught if the student will simply acknowledge and follow along with a simple, fun and
easy, system of DRUMMER SPECIFIC . . . listening-habits. Drumming becomes natural when the student learns to habitually and chronically
'LISTEN' to music with both ears in the same special way that ALL DRUMMERS LISTEN . It's a special
listening habit
that a great musician and teacher instilled into me, when I was just 9 years old. I remember it
as THE pivotal moment of my life
and career. . . . It's the SEED of all rhythm and YOU are about to learn it. DEVELOP NATURAL ABILITY, BEGINNING RIGHT NOW: Make it a lifetime habit to blot-out and ignore almost everything else that's going on as any song plays. It's a habit of mental
analysis. As drummers, we routinely (as a matter of habit), listen for the specific tones of each drum in the set.
We try to imagine WHICH drum is being hit. We even try to imagine which hands and which limbs are doing the hitting. This isn't something
you do once or twice, then say, "Okay. I can do that!" It is to become a ritual for life. It's becomes something that's irresistible . . . any
time a song anywhere . . . enters your ears. HERE, EXACTLY; IS WHAT TO We develop those two things as a HABIT. It grows like Cancer, the more we do it! As we do those two simple things, we are officially
drumming!
It's possible to hold an entire band together with just that, and nothing else! It's only a beginning and we're playing a rather lame beat;
but that is the beginnings of the natural drummer. It's where we start! It soon becomes an obsession we can't resist! Everything else
in music is based around that steady, hypnotic beat-flow. We must 'feel it' deeply and profoundly. Our deepening sensitivity or feel for the
flow of the beat in each and every song is the very thing that will eventually propel the student drummer towards professional status. There's a real special kick or an emotional rush that occurs as we lock-on to the tempo of a song
and hold it. It's almost hypnotic! At that point, all the immensely deeper complexities of rhythmic-creativity begin unraveling
and making total sense, on a near sub-conscious level. FOR EXAMPLE: We hear the recorded drummer do a fancy roll or fill around the set
and we visualize where s/he is going with it. We realize . . . "Hey, I can do that!". Then the next time we hear the song, we do something very
similar as the drummer does that roll again. Pow! It's a total gas when we connect; follow through; and come out of the fill . . . still
IN-TIME with the beat flow of the music. We're immediately hooked for life. It isn't about money, career or dreams. It's just about the
thrill of locking-on and connecting while staying IN-TIME with the music. Without feeling that beat-flow deeply and intensely; no amount of lessons or fancy shrink-wrapped
courses are going to get us where we dream to go. The "dream" begins right there in the above paragraphs. Without that, there won't be any
dream. Those listening habits must be developed and cultivated to a point of daily, hourly, routine habit. As any song begins to play;
we find the beat. Our foot finds the Bass drum and we clap or beat the furniture, along with the snare. Once that begins to occur routinely,
all the enigmas and complexities of the deeper rhythms begin to materialize as common-sense logic. They become exposed as the
simplicities they are, illuminating the fact that rhythm is actually primal. It's basic in human nature. We all have it (I believe). It's just that
some discover it and some do not. It's all about that routine listening-habit! It becomes a thing we can't stop doing after awhile. It can often be embarrassing
in social situations, because we find that no matter what is happening around us, if there is a song playing, we simply MUST
find the beat and tap along in-time with it! Being in-time becomes a compulsion or a near addiction; much like dancing. It's about really
feeling the flow of the music completely; allowing the natural (rhythmic) flow to occur within our own imagination and soul! It's
absolutely and mesmerizingly compelling, once we find and FEEL the FUN that is: "THE SEED OF ALL RHYTHMS". Natural ability becomes an unstoppable force from that point on. It's also a sign that we will become a drummer for life; no
matter how many beautiful drum sets we leave behind at various pawn shops. BUT; THERE IS MORE . . . How do we do it? It's actually very simple. Some learn to do it without ever taking a lesson or studying a book. All music follows patterns! If we listen deeply enough and intensely enough we'll hear and remember those patterns. They repeat!
We listen for those patterns to a point where we 'feel' them to the core of our soul, and we hear them repeating over and over
in our minds. Soon after that, we catch fire . . . and the rest will often come intuitively and amazingly EASY. Actually,
drumming is all about remembering those patterns; rhythm patterns that may be acquired two different ways: You have found that person! You will discover it completely within the first 4 lessons . . . on Lesson Menu #1. From that point on, you
will very quickly discover the NATURAL ability to play-along with virtually ANY song from Lesson #4, on. The more you play for
fun (with or without a drum set), the more awesome you
will become . . . NATURALLY! What you will learn in those first few lessons will illustrate the MAJOR differences of quality-experienced-instruction as compared
with expensive quick-buck methods you may find elsewhere. Those quick-buck methods may often be designed by TEAMS of
entrepreneurial geniuses with a deeper focus on relieving you of your hard-earned dollars, than actually teaching you what you
REALLY need to learn. These lessons are all digital and instantly downloadable! (No waiting for the mail-truck to arrive.) They're available to your door,
instantly, right now , , , today! Aging and experience does funny things to our conscience as we grow older. We begin to realize that success in life isn't about
money at all. It's about what we leave behind . . . and being REMEMBERED for it. Anyway; you've found what you were searching for! Get crackin'! MY GUARANTEE: NO TRICKS! NO GIMMICKS! "Finite to Infinity" is the crowning-achievement of my entire 62-year teaching and playing career! It is truly worth the minimum
donation fee, all by itself! Between the late 90s and 2008, (when these lessons were commercialized) it sold like
hotcakes for $75. It's now free with membership and available for all digital reading formats like Kindle, Nook, iPad, etc., etc..
Every musician alive today needs to study it! That one little e-book may possibly help launch the (currently lost) rhythms of the music-world (and you) 500-years into the future.
Yes, it is that powerful and it is barely a two-hour read. What you will learn there, is currently lost knowledge . . . especially for
drummers, though it's equally important to ALL musicians! The crucial elements of rhythm became lost in the birthing of the
time-signature system, over 500 years ago. If you do not read Finite to Infinity, you'll lose. It may be more important (to drummers especially)
than all the drumming courses ever to be written and promoted. The full scope and complete scale of ALL rhythm does NOT emerge intuitively
(or even intellectually) within the frighteningly enigmatic time-signature-system as it has been taught for the past 500 years. It's all so
easy too, but the crucial elements of instruction weren't and have not ever been included, until now . . .
Download it! You'll see what I mean! "Musical Time: Finite to Infinity" is currently only available through me.
You will NOT find this amazing knowledge of ALL RHYTHM, via any other teacher. What you'll learn about beat-patterns and
song-beat-structures within this easy to follow two-hour-study, will completely rock your rhythmic foundations to the core. Yes, it WILL eventually change the evolution
of music forever, as it becomes more widely known. That's an obvious fact with which you will surely agree, once you read and understand
its 'revolutionary' content. All music educators and music-teachers from college level professors to grade school, should read it!
It is absolutely revolutionary.
Some 'traditionalists' will even want to debate it; but their debates will fall flat! Proof is truth! The (beautiful) math involved proves
itself, exposing the current time-signature-system as the arcane and trite system it has always been for 500 years, since its early design. So, . . . E-mail me. Get to know me! Ask for help! No matter what level of ability you have reached; whether
you are a beginner or a kick-butt, working pro, I can help. I enjoy helping. It's what I do. It's what I've always done. It's why I'm here. I do it
because I love it . . . and NOT for the money. I do it, because I don't want to take this lifetime of knowledge with me, when I go.
I prefer to leave it all, easily and inexpensively accessible for future generations to build upon. You'll know within the first five lessons,
that you are on-track, by the speed and ease with which you will learn. You will learn the rudiments and rolls my FUN way. You'll learn to read music notation almost without knowing you
are learning to read. My years of experience will help you make it a painless and FUN journey towards your wildest dreams. NOTE: That's every potential
beat pattern in the entire musical universe! It's an engrossing 2-hour read that you will forever refer to as the most illuminating
2-hours you've ever experienced in one sitting. It's a different approach, like seeing the forest from above. It plants the beat structures
in your mind and imagination in a special way. You WILL jamm and play from a new, more creative and knowledgeable perspective forever-after.
In a word, it'll elevate you to rhythm-guru status. Check out all the lesson Menus at the top of every web page. You are looking at the very same lessons I teach privately at $50 per hour.
What you see here are YEARS of HIGH QUALITY, private instruction.
Musical Time - Finite to Infinity: Finite to Infinity: Discover the (lost) 500 year-old enigmatic secrets hidden within
the current time-signature system. Seven short mesmerizing and easy-to-follow lessons will lead you quickly and easily towards
(musical-time) guru status. You will learn to visualize (read, write or feel) the existence This should lead
directly to the e-book. This very informative little booklet will amaze you
with hundreds of valuable tips and insider secrets! HOW TO: Purchase old/used drumsets for pennies and resell them for decent
profits.
Free Lesson Menus
SEEDS OF NATURAL DRUMMING ABILITY!
The trick to becoming a NATURAL is learning to habitually listen, with a deeper,
more intense laser-focus,
to the drums specifically, deep within EVERY song that we hear.
HABITUALLY LEARN TO LISTEN FOR:
You've probably known or met a natural drummer at one time or another. The natural drummer is the drummer who can
hear a song, ANY SONG and play it instinctively while hearing it for the very first time in their life. There is a science to that.
My best stuff is in the e-books: ESPECIALLY, "Musical Time: Finite to Infinity"!Orientation
Copyright Bill Powelson 1965-1994-2008-2014 @ all rights reserved. "The teacher, of indeed wise, does not bid you to enter their
house of wisdom, but leads you through the threshold of your own mind"-Kahil Gibran.
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Don't be a skeptic until you at least try it first. You owe it to yourself toTRY IT RIGHT NOW!
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