People all around the world have experienced the therapeutic benefits of drumming. Even in some recent years, Scientific Experts have backed up hard evidence that supports this.

Drumming can achieve many things for you. Including physical and mental relaxation, relief from stress, relief of depression, clarity of thought, and learning to work as an efficient team. It is fun, you can be creative as you want and often hit as hard as you want too.

It has also proven to help cancer patients, people with parkinson s disease, Alzheimer s, people with drug addiction, people with learning difficulties, people with physical disabilities, older people, prisoners, school children and corporate decision makers.

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This is Jared Talbot signing off Drum away today !!

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I am a BIG fan of Thrice.

Thrice is an American rock band
from Irvine, California, formed in 1998.
The group was founded by guitarist/vocalist
Dustin Kensrue and guitarist Teppei Teranishi
while they were in high school

I must of first heard them in 2001 or so and had never heard anything like it. I went out and bought their CD and listened to it over 100 times. I actually had to import it, because no one new who they were. The band has since grow and released many albums. They have traveled the world and have earned the respect of millions. Their newer stuff has become very experimental, they have all grow up a lot. This one song sticks in my mind all the time and I thought I would share the lyrics with you. They are quite hardcore, but I do think this represents our world today. When I look around I see most in pain and very few in absolute luxury, it’s NOT right! I suggest you get the album and take note of the lyrics. Dustin is a genius.

All Whole World Is Mad

We are saints made of plaster, our laughter is canned;
We are demons that hide in the mirror.
But the blood on our hands paints a picture exceedingly clear. 

We are brimming with cumbersome, murderous greed,
And malevolence deep and profound.
We do unspeakable deeds, does our wickedness know any bounds?

Something’s gone terribly wrong with everyone;
All the world is mad.
Darkness brings terrible things; the sun is gone-
What vanity! our sad, wretched fires.

We can’t medicate man to perfection again;
We can’t legislate peace in our hearts.
We can’t educate sin from our souls, it’s been there from the start.

But the blind lead the blind into bottomless pits,
Still we smile and deny that we’re cursed.
But of all our iniquities ignorance may be the worst.

Oh, what little light we have!
It only serves to show
The snares and seeds of wrath
We have already sewn on every path.

Get their Album click here —>>>>    Beggars –

I really can’t understand how the world, has got into a situation, where there is more material wealth and production, and yet everyone is in debt to bankers?

With all these bailouts, stimulus packages, and basically debt piled upon debts, is there no limit to how much money can be made? Surely we can not just print money whenever we feel like it?

But wait… problem number two, the bankers themselves are running out of money too right? So we the tax payers have to rescue the bankers, by going even further into debt. ARE WE ALL BLIND, this is a world wide ponzi scheme!

The good news it has to end. And it will. It will be tough, but we can pay back the debt and move into a new era.

Understanding exactly what money is, is very important.

If you would like to learn more about money and exactly how it came to be go watch this free video on youtube

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544#

Playing drums tightly is all about playing in the pocket.

It means, if the beat is 96 beats per minute the divisions between 4/4 or 6/4 whatever the time signature is… the division is perfect.

I’m not sure if you understand what I’m trying to say.

Let’s say you are playing a 4/4 beat at 100BPM and you miss one of the notes by a fraction of second, over a few bars you will be out of the pocket.

People can hear whether something is in time or not. They might not be able to tell you why they don’t like it, but they will say oh no that sounds horrible. They might also understand time and not be able to do it, but see if someone else can do it.

So when you are learning drums, focus on playing really slowly at first and practicing technique. Play fewer stokes and focus on playing “in the pocket.”

Use different techniques like the moeller method, finger technique and wrist technique. Practice whenever you have a chance, but rather then focusing on speed, focus on playing the groove as tight as possible.

Learn to breathe while playing too that helps too.

by

Jared Talbot