I never really wanted to teach anybody, as I see myself as a student or apprentice and I want to grow as much as I can. All the drum teachers I've had were great, I was blessed to have these teachers impart their wisdom and knowledge of music & drums in particular.
Spot on. !!! To many many musicians 'teachers' teach because they can't get enough gigs. Did my first yoga session yesterday. Today I discovered tension in my wrist. This took years to get here. Only a high level teacher would have spotted this disadvantage. I'm 54 years young, After spending a dedicated life of musical adventure playing different instruments I started concentrating on drumming about 10 years ago. And also fell in love with boxing two years ago. becoming a boxing instructor. Goodness. Love life. Mi greatest regards.
Phil is saw this pop up this morning on way to work. Chomping at the bit to get home to watch. I knew it was going to hit home. So tired of seeing reels and RU-vid etc of get faster hands, slick licks, buy my pdfs, bla bla bla.. 🫵🏻 are the real deal Phil. 👏👏🙏
Thank you Ron. It means a lot to me trust me. Those people you mention are only seekers of attention and algorithm suckers. Has anything changed? Because before YT there were always these types of people around. Sad for humans i think.
Ive often been asked to teach and ive aways said no and im still learning myself . Its also "teach what " what type of drummer " they "want to be is very specialised
@@philmaturanodrums at 14 I had " lessons " but they were not lessons as such because the whole mentality of teachers back then was you learn a few " beats " a term I hate and fills to link them up . Most drummers at the time would just ask to be taught a few basic things then stop going. I lasted 3 years. I was riding a bike 7 miles each way wind rain to get half an hour . Sometimes I'd get there and the guy wasn't there , so 7 miles back home . i soon realised whole thing had no goal , each week it was just a random thing . Holding a stick was never mentioned, It really went down hill when he would just get a book open up a double page of notation to read and he would vanish to go get a coffee and talk to people. I thought screw this ill just buy a copy of that book. One time he put a dep teacher in that played worse than I did. When I quit all of that I bought as many books and later videos I could find. 90% useless out side of it being something fresh to read . I went heavily into playing stacked ostinatos, overlapped phrases to build independence but I soon realised most playing is very linear. I tried writing a drum book but it came to nothing as its basic Idea needed far too much padding out and it was just padding for the sake of page count . The whole thing could have been on 3 pages . 1 page of 16th note permutations, 2nd triplet permutations and 3rd a grid system to work from . For every linear phrase you play you are also learning a mirror of it depending on what limb you are visualising starting on so you are infact learning 2 things for every one . Eg RLK as 16ths is walking its walking its way across all potential starting limbs relative to a click/count . So these days I practice as many ways to play say 4 16th note patterns on limbs and then drop in a 3 note grouping to displace the thing at random across the grid , in the end all the displacements become just phrases and falling onto z new leading limb is less of a panic. I will also drop the same phrases into a triplet time grid and let them flip without getting hung up on what division its falling on. I'm also starting rudiments on different divisions of the time grid , it leads to not thinking of 4 types of RLRRLRLL. Etc. It can be thought of as one phrase just moved around or stuck into a triplet grid same with 5s ,7s in triplets. So I'm basically all about division grid plus learning to move the phrases . The goal is to wander into less phrases that will trip me up stoppingme dead .plus still play left foot hi hat 4s through the lot to stop it being a random mess. Areas I'm lacking are music styles.ive thrown a lot of time at things ill never use , eg keep it greasy and learning tuplets i will never ever use . In the UK there isn't much need to throw a lot of time at Cuban or jazz . That music doesn't exist here , its getting hard to find gigs just playing covers. The grass roots of " music creation "seems to be lots of metal bands that want flat out double kicks and play for free every 6 months. I have so many black holes of things I can't do that I doubt I'll ever feel like Ive reached the top of a hill. Lessons wise I think I could at least pass on a pathway to avoid wasting a lot of time but to be honest I don't think many would listen to that advise till after they already wasted time to find out they wasted time. Long rambling comment :)
@@asdland2218 Man what a great post!!! I really appreciate the time you took to write this. I think many people will be grateful to read it! Many greetings from Bali!!
Hey Phil, great video. You've hit the nail on the head big time. Lots of time wasters and money grabbers out there. Disgusts me too man. I will say that from my experience with you over the last year, you're definitely a guru, to borrow that indian word and idea you mentioned - the thing that sets you apart is that I feel like you actually CARE about how I'm getting on. I will send you update video of how my hand technique is getting on later this week, but yeah, i appreciate everything you do, and love that you actually care about your "students" or should i say... "the people at the start or middle of their journey in drumming" - peace man, and I also see your subscriber count growing, which is well deserved, best regards, your namesake, Phil :) Lets GOOOOO 10K subs incoming!!!
Paul another great vid. Thanks. I'd sure like to know the sticking on that rumba clave excersize. I've been messing with it but I'm not getting the formula. Just the first part.
Hi write out 2 bars eighth notes. Plug in the 2:3 rhumba clave, thats the accented notes. Fill in the rests as ghost notes. Now play flams on the accented notes. Everything else us single strokes . Then play a series of flam accents, followed singles strokes. Hope this helps. I dont teach lol.. Phil is the master teacher in my humble opinion ✌️
A lot of the people you're alluding to lean on the algorithm. Admittedly, i think most people are trying to be instagram and youtube famous more than they are trying to be a good teacher. So all those people go by supply and demand, and the demand from kids is single serving, they dont want to learn the fundamentals behind a lick , they just want someone to show them a lick - they dont even care that they wont practice it enough to use it lol
