I Learned To Play The Drums In 5 Days With No Experience 

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my mom took up drumming at the age of 55 (about 10 years ago) and has now progressed to playing with a huge professional jazz band! she had no musical experience. I'm sending this to her. THANK YOU TIM

Playing Guitar Hero with Stewart Copeland is a peak moment in life!

Whoever gave you the idea to release this on RU-vid is a bloody genius. I had no idea this series existed and after watching this I'm an instant fan. Thank you sir 🙏🏼

As a drummer who started playing when I was about 10 years old (37 now)...your development in a short time period and willingness to learn and put in the work was incredible. Seeing you and Foreigner having a blast together on stage was AWESOME! Cheers brother. Great message!

Man I couldn’t imagine the anxiety you must’ve felt but can see how that motivated you to do something you thought impossible. Good on ya, Tim.

Tim’s got rhythm! Tips for anyone learning a musical instrument: 1) reading music is not necessary, in fact learning by ear is faster and ultimately result in you being more musical. 2) most of us don’t have time to practice so intensely. Check out the book atomic habits and apply the 1% rule to you music practice. 3) thinking about rhythm is counterproductive - try dancing and feeling it, then what you play is an extension of your internal pulse. @tim, if you ever want to learn guitar we’ve got you. 🤘

"play the song, don't play the drums" is legitimately the best advice you could give a noobie.... don't get overwhelmed by all the countless branches there are to music. just learn the necessary parts for that particular piece and then build from there with other songs

Been waiting years for this 🤘🏻

YES YES YES!!! Thank you so much Tim! Hope we can get access to the extended version of these eps as well!!!

I've been playing guitar in bands for 23 years, have sat behind a drum kit for fun every now and then, but have never learned as much as Tim just showed. Respect. I will take this as an example.

Thank you for uploading this Tim! I could not help but smile along with you during the final performance, and it was great to see how welcoming and accommodating the band were after they piled on the pressure when you first met!

Tim, this is just... This is just mind-blowing, what you did right here. Am going to make time to watch all the upcoming episodes man.

This is incredible. The other week I was wondering about this TV show and where it'd gone; couldn't find it on the web! Here it comes! Thank you Tim!

I can't process how great this was. Going from Zero to Rock Show in 5 days? That's mental... and you crushed it! Truly inspirational.

Great job Tim! I have been playing drums for 28 years and I still get nerves before performing. Thanks for sharing the scariest part of the journey: your first show.

Wow, that was amazing! I've been playing drums at my church for over 20 years in front of up to 500 people at a time and still get nervous (I don't want to make any mistakes)! You've inspired me to continue working on my ability to relax and have fun with it. Great job!

Dude I loved this! Wish Tim did more stuff like this, it's so refreshing seeing him go through pressure. Super fun watch Timbo

Well done Tim - you can be super proud. That took balls of steel a lot of commitment not to chicken out at the last minute. Solid performance! Looking forward to the next episodes 🎉

This was great Tim! I’ve been drumming for over 10 years and posted my journey online🤘

Tim, as a pro drummer / educator I applaud you! This was no small feat! I hope you’ve encouraged many people to learn the drums and try something that gets them out of their comfort zone! I need to see the rest of the footage like you said. 👊🏼👏🏼

This was so fun and I love the level of support Tim got from the band. Good job!

So glad you are sharing with us Tim! Love these shows can wait to watch them all over again! Such an inspiration!

Thank you for posting these and sharing them with all of us!

Definitely a nerve-racking feeling Tim, but the way you pushed yourself to achieve your goal no matter what, and limited your scope to weed out the fills to focus on your strength is admirable. Thanks for inspiring us!

Thank you for making these free! Now the follow up drumming episode…..SLAYER🔥🤘🏼🔥

as a drummer... yeah, if Journey's drummer was playing behind me and I didn't have to hit every note exactly right then this would be the easiest thing in the world.

Amazing Tim!!! You have done three important things up to the detail from your teachers tips and advice. You have played those solid grooves (specially those floor toms, Chris F.), you managed and conquered stage's fear (facing public performance Adam T. ) and also going through mistakes but kept playing (even if you and the band noticed but you were absolutely focused, Steward C.) all those three are the most valuable skills to do, apart of course of spending hours learning, practicing and crafting drumming. No many people who learn drums for years can do all those three together and in one week! A Huge well done! From another drummer

Utterly amazing. I've been a drummer for about 20+ years, and it was fantastic seeing you go through this experience. Great job spreading positive mental attitude and showing that truly all things are possible.

YES!!! I've been wanting to watch them for such a long time!!!

So amazing! The walls in your brain that you continually plow through to overcome, learn, and reach your potential is inspiring! Thank you!

I’m so excited for this! I loved making music as a teenager, I love how Tim deconstructs things. So excited to see both together!

Tim, that was incredibly inspiring. Seeing that joy on your face when you were playing and getting into the song reminded me why I started playing almost thirty years ago. I never played with a famous rock band, but seeing this video reminded me that is not the point at all. I hope you really enjoyed yourself and that you keep playing. Thanks again and all the best on the rest of your experiments.

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I remember when this episode first dropped. You couldn't ask for a better mentor than Stewart Copeland. And getting to double drum live with Foreigner is not a bad first gig!

Cool experiment. I'm sure this will inspire a lot of future drummers. As a fellow drummer, I advise you to take your time, FEEL the groove, and wear ear protection.

Mad props to Tim and super stoked seeing ZPZ behind this. So great

From a former high school drummer, excellent freakin job in such a short window, man! Also, thanks, Tim, for all you do...the first podcast I started listening to regularly, and it's still my fav. You're inspiring, and your spirit and class are entirely contagious.

Hi Tim Thankyou for sharing your drumming experience and more. Reminder of a wee terrifying venture I partook in last summer, with a bunch of fantastic high school football playing girls. Was an amazing experience and adrenalin filled rush pre and post event. Here's to more of the same and different in 2024. Truly grateful for your wisdom here, over passing few years. 😀 💜

Brovo Tim!!! Fantastic job!!! I own a Drum School in a small town in northern California called Beats From The Core, downtown Redding California. No other instruments just Drums. We signed up half the town for drum lessons, and we have people of all ages playing shows jammin gigs and playing with friends. It’s quite a sight to see. Drumming sure does bring people together. Glad you’re part of it.

Tim, that was BADASS! I'm your age and always loved the drums starting as a little kid. Till this day, I still loves drums but never learned. Great video for inspiration. Thks for sharing.

Thanks @tim - I haven't seen your show prior, but this was really entertaining and pretty informative on how to learn better. Looking forward to the next episode.

Bless you for releasing this Tim!!! There are so many pieces of gold in these episodes. I hope you receive triple the value you've brought to the world!

OMG, that was amazing Tim! Loved when the lead singer stood on your drums and you didn't even flinch. Bravo!

Thank you Tim! I love the podcast and emails and stoked this is once again available!

Stewart Copeland teaching you drums is such a dream ❤

What a crazy feeling of joyful amazement watching your emotions, struggles, and victory. The positive encouragement from the mentors. What can you do in a week? wow. Looking forward to more. Congrats on your launch!!!

Beautifully done!!! 💌Congrats Tim!!! You are amazing!👏

Very exciting you’re releasing these!

Just amazing Tim, very inspirational. Love the fact that your willing to take the risk with a potential high degree of fail rate. Cant wait for the next episode!

DUUuuuude!!! AMAZING!!!! Well done... Loved it and subscribed. Excited to see what else you produce, Tim. Keep it up! Own all of your books... keep up the great work and the succinct editing is appreciated as well! 🤗

Thanks so much for putting this on RU-vid! I’d purchased this series years ago via iTunes and can’t access them anymore. Please upload the others as well.

Thanks a lot Tim! When I first read “4 Hour Chef” and Josh Waitzkin’s book I was trying to find all the episodes and only found a few! So glad you released all these!🙌🏾🔥🔥

This was so FUN and inspiring to watch! Thanks Tim! Love from Portugal

Drummer of maybe 17 years here- it's so interesting to see how your mind approaches with such intentionality the things that I don't ever consider anymore and really gives a lot of credit to the nuance of drumming and how truly complex it can be. You did fantastic and this was really great to watch!

You are inspiring Tim, and a legend. You tackle some of the world's most complicated topics with bravery, intelligence, and dedication... and I respect you deeply for it!

This was such a FUN video!! I love your interviews, but this was just great! I'm a beginner drummer, just learning by doing because I think its fun. You had the experience of a lifetime! What an awesome way to stretch your perceived limitations and model what it means to go for it. Bravo!👏👏👏

I love how Stewart gave him some gloves to play with.

Tim, you are fearless! Absolutely love this. Talk about putting your ego on the line.

Stewart Copeland and Foreigner. Legends. Really enjoyed this.

You did an incredible job, explaining the initial confusion and doubt, and then growing confidence… And then the fear and confidence starting to crumble for that first gig. I am a drummer and went through all of the exact same emotions. When I had my first live gig at school, everything I had learned started to become a mishmash once I was about to go on stage. Like everything I learned had been picked up into a tornado and was spinning around me; I could see some of the things I needed to do, but they were still whipping around me. And during the actual performance, it took me a second to settle into just the basic rhythm, but my mind couldn’t help looking ahead to the little bit of flare, and fill that I would have to do in between, and it was almost like bracing for a car crash as the moment came to perform the fill. As loose as I was getting performing the basic rhythm, I would definitely tense and clench up. And while my mind could start to go in a little bit of an auto pilot mode for the basic rhythm, everything came into the front of my mind when it was time for the fill, which is almost like data overload, and I would stumble a bit on that fill. But I would return to the regular rhythm and start to feel better again, although I was quite conscious and embarrassed about how I stumbled on the fill which made me more nervous for when I would have to do it again in the song. I would mess up again, but not as much. And it just took more time playing this song alone for it to all become second nature. And it took performing live more often to get less nervous about playing that song in front of people These days, it all really does feel like second nature. In a way it feels like my mind can sit back and enjoy having my body be its own personal drummer. That’s how much it feels like second nature. Like my mind is so relaxed, so “not thinking about it“, it feels so much like my body is doing it automatically that it does feel like I’m just sitting back and enjoying what my arms and feet are doing. And realizing you can get into auto pilot mode, that easy, certainly adds confidence, and dare I say, even a sense of boredness to wear your mind actually gets hungry too do new things, all of a sudden the mind doesn’t want to be on auto pilot all the time, it wants to be challenged. And so I start learning more difficult things to do. More complex rhythms, or something like a blast beat which is just very physically demanding. I’m definitely at a point where a lot of things are on auto pilot, but there is still a level of drumming which is probably always going to be a challenge for me, but my mind enjoys the challenge.

An absolutely brilliant performance!! Must have been such an exhilarating experience, well done Tim.👏

Tim, I was skeptical that this would be a worthwhile experiment, but I love it. Not just interesting, but so well executed.

Drums are the most fun instrument I’ve ever learned…and I play a good many. Easy to learn the basics, but takes time to get a good groove and learn the nuances and what fits. Very entertaining to see you step up to the challenge.

My Uncle Phil gave me his drum kit when I ten years old. It changed my life. I’ve since played in many bands and taught many people how to also play. As someone that’s followed you since you brought out the four hour work week this was especially resonant (pun intended!) and enjoyable. It shows not only what can be achieved with dedication, a clear progress structure and good tuition but also confirms the necessity of the 10,000 hours rule! Looking forward to the rest in the series! 🤘🏼👍🏼✊🏼

This is what I loved about Tim 18 years ago. I need more of this.

As a drummer, I loved this - he did it with a smile ! Learning to read score music was a blind initial turn, play with your ear and your heart.

This is so great that this material is on RU-vid!

The beast! Thanks for sharing Tim

Fun to have these available. Look forward to seeing any I missed!

The legend of Tim Ferris keeps getting more epic!

i watched these episodes when they were first released. they were so inspiring. definitely worth a re-watch. thanks for uploading! PS: you should do some more!

Tim, this is insane and we love it!

What an incredible production!

So awesome to have Stewart Copeland to help out

Awesome! Thanks for bringing this to all of us on YT.

learning how to play a single song on an instrument and learning how to really play an instrument are so monumentally different. Shortcuts are rarely shortcuts and just ways to mask inadequacy.

Wow that was great Tim, reminding me to face my fears and step into possibilities. You're the best.

this is amazing, tons of admiration Tim

A great video. I’m a surgical trainee having a tough time on my current rotation, and this has just been the perfect pep talk

I learned drums on one of Copelands Tama kits. So lucky to have that opportunity. Hes a legend. Well done Tim

So cool to see this show up on my feed. Great job in only five days. Hope you decide to stick with it as it's a lifelong passion. Been playing off and on for a couple decades now. Awesome that you got to spend time with Stewart. He's a teachers teacher. The RockBand bit had me cracking up and he was right that the singer and guitarist was gonna mess with ya!

Well done, Tim. Great work! At about the middle of 2023, I started learning the drums, I then pretty much gave it up to concentrate more on guitar. Anyway, this has inspired me to keep on with the drums.

Can’t think of a better way to get excited about continuing the drumming journey. Hope he keeps it up!

This was a fantastic journey to take me along on. Thank you sir. Great video. Great message!

It's amazing to finally watch this! Thank you

This is gold! Thank you so muh Tim, your content is so interesting... Makes me really think and analyze my actions.

Awesome concept, awesome execution. Brilliant!

fu@#%ing awesome!! Congrats Tim, you just found another way to have great fun and take us with you!! I was feeling as tense as you during the concert part... haha

Beautiful, Tim! Well done

I don't really now why but this one really put a big smile on my face. Maybe some kind of nostalgia about young Tim Ferriss (and me being even younger follower of his).

This is really awesome!!! You were freaking incredible!!! I am proud of you!!! You are the first of my motivational speaking heroes to apply rock music. This is really the closest that I have seen so far to what I feel compelled to do, fusing motivational speaking & heavy rock together to uplift and inspire others to fulfill their dreams too. In essence, rebuilding our world through creativity, imagination, & pure heart. 🤘

Tim, you are so freak-in lucky!!!! Stewart Copeland whose drumming I adore and admire so much (had a big grin on my face whenever he was in this video with you). Foreigner, a band that was one of my favorites growing up. I took up drums a few years ago (School of Rock baby) in my late 60's never played a musical instrument in my life (drums always a dream). Now just recently started a band just for fun to learn songs and hopefully not be embarrassed and play at a local venue, learn some more songs and do it again. But you got to do it for a week on the biggest scale ever (I'm so jealous!). I am sure it will be one of the best experiences you will have had. I am glad the RU-vid algorithm lead me to your video. I am a fan and look forward to seeing what else you get to do that is on my bucket list!

As a drummer for many years, I applaud your bravery. Welcome to the family bro!

Stewart Copeland is such a delight. He just has so much joy for everything he's doing, what a champ.

This was so awesome!!! Well done man.

Yes! This is legendary! You could tell Tim was in the groove on stage!

Stewart has one of best drum kits out there, that Tama kits is incredible, and here he has pinstripes with gaffers tape on them, gotta love him.

What fun to learn with Stewart Copeland - I'd love that, too!

This warms my drummer heart. There's too little drum content around still outside the drumming community. Thanks Tim. Ps. get rid of those gloves!! 😁 Hopefully you all reading these comments read this: YES; you can learn the drums! Compared to other instruments, there really is only a couple things you need to get playing actual music. I am biased, but gotta love the drums!