A REFESHING TOPIC ABOUT DRUMMING MYTHS THAT WE NEED TO REALLY TAKE A LOOK AT.

[tko05]

Every new idea was inspired by an old one. I dont think that it is nessesary to be proficient at all styles but I do think that you should at least study them and get the basics of each style because themore you know, the more you have to pull from to create your own new, and unique style of playing.

Hope that makes sense.

[SabianKnight]

Master your instrument, your control and your musical mind then you will transcend style. See Prince...

His mastery of music allows him to play various instruments and musical styles fluently, naturally and authentically. Does it come down to technique? Yes, mastery requires technical proficiency be it physical or mental or both. Even grooving requires technique that promotes flow.

We cannot get so individual that we ignore the "DND" of things. Properly nurtured work yields growth. Vital retention yields progression/evolvement. Exploration increase vision. Vision finds/follows purpose. Aaah, there is that word... purpose. SO Why do you play? Answer that question truthfully and you find it has nothing to do with you as a person/personality/individual but everything to do with HIs purpose for you. To that end we are obligated to greatness anything less is out of order because we are made in His image.   

[MaestroDivine]

Master your instrument, your control and your musical mind then you will transcend style. See Prince...

His mastery of music allows him to play various instruments and musical styles fluently, naturally and authentically. Does it come down to technique? Yes, mastery requires technical proficiency be it physical or mental or both. Even grooving requires technique that promotes flow.

We cannot get so individual that we ignore the "DND" of things. Properly nurtured work yields growth. Vital retention yields progression/evolvement. Exploration increase vision. Vision finds/follows purpose. Aaah, there is that word... purpose. SO Why do you play? Answer that question truthfully and you find it has nothing to do with you as a person/personality/individual but everything to do with HIs purpose for you. To that end we are obligated to greatness anything less is out of order because we are made in His image.   

SO Why do you play? Answer that question truthfully and you find it has nothing to do with you as a person/personality/individual but everything to do with HIs purpose for you.

I don't know about that. Are you saying that someone can't play, simply 'cause they enjoy too? Everything we do in our life isn't about giving the glory to God. When you go to the recreational center to play basketball, do you go because of God, or because of you?

I think it simply comes to, as you said, your purpose. However, their are certain things that are required of you, if you plan to use your abilities beyond your personal enjoyment of playing music.

[freddyfusion]

i agree with the ones who are saying:

be able to play/ be fluent in as many styles as you can but master one/some
there is a difference between being able to and being proficient in something
like speaking different languages but really studying and mastering some.
just one man's opinion

[SabianKnight]

Master your instrument, your control and your musical mind then you will transcend style. See Prince...

His mastery of music allows him to play various instruments and musical styles fluently, naturally and authentically. Does it come down to technique? Yes, mastery requires technical proficiency be it physical or mental or both. Even grooving requires technique that promotes flow.

We cannot get so individual that we ignore the "DND" of things. Properly nurtured work yields growth. Vital retention yields progression/evolvement. Exploration increase vision. Vision finds/follows purpose. Aaah, there is that word... purpose. SO Why do you play? Answer that question truthfully and you find it has nothing to do with you as a person/personality/individual but everything to do with HIs purpose for you. To that end we are obligated to greatness anything less is out of order because we are made in His image.   

SO Why do you play? Answer that question truthfully and you find it has nothing to do with you as a person/personality/individual but everything to do with HIs purpose for you.

I don't know about that. Are you saying that someone can't play, simply 'cause they enjoy too? Everything we do in our life isn't about giving the glory to God. When you go to the recreational center to play basketball, do you go because of God, or because of you?

I think it simply comes to, as you said, your purpose. However, their are certain things that are required of you, if you plan to use your abilities beyond your personal enjoyment of playing music.

I am not sayin g that we cannot do anything "for ourselves". I personally have found /am finding that who I am is whom he made me to be not per sey whom I think I want to be. I feel that many times our personality that has been externally taught/influenced by our surroundings good or bad jumps in fornt of our internal true selves. Most times we don't take time to investigate/acknowledge who we are at the soul level. That level that want let us sleep at night when we are out of order. That level that doesn't recognize itself in the mirror in the morning after wilding out the night before. That level that causes us to tear up when we see a true musician in his/her glory knowing that we just witness God's spotlight on them (because they were in the Zone we got a peek).

Our free-will purpose all too often gets us out of line with our intended purpose which delays us and disappoints us.

One man's opinion...