Some of you may have been following my journey in learning to play the drums. Today I attempt a song that I had tried bits of before. I found a Youtube channel with lots of 'drumless' songs and it includes this ZZ Top classic.
The video use a scrolling drum tab like the Guitar Hero games. I have never played any of those, so responding to that was part of the challenge. I also had to feel for where the beats fell in the song and I did lose my place at times. You will see me pause at times. I only played it through a few times, so my performance is that that great. If I was playing a game it would not be a hgh score for sure.
This was really just an exercise to see how I would perform and do not expect it to be all that entertaining. I just like to record my progress and maybe people will have suggestions.
You may notice something on the ends of my drum sticks. I had some comments from my other half about the noise. Even with headphones the sound of drumsticks on hard rubber pads is quite loud. I saw that you can buy rubber tips, but I improvised some with packing foam. It does deaden the sound a bit. At least I do not live in an appartment. If you have people downstairs then you need more extensive measures to deal with the noise. People build isolated platforms for their drumkits.
I also had issues with Youtube on the tablet leaving the pause button on screen. I found some tips saying that clearing the cache could fix that and it worked.
Rock on!
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