Rabbit & Pork

Recently, I’ve been making my way through an excellent series of drum tutorials by Colin Woolway entitled Getting Started. They’re published in Rhythm magazine where each month introduces a progressively more difficult challenge.

I find the exercises in this series particularly beneficial. Each exercise builds upon its predecessors in a way that seems natural, but it wasn’t until the lesson “Hi-Hat Conversions” that I understood why - this piece of advice is given:

“The process is as important as the end result… try to persist with getting to the final result by process rather than going straight for it.”

I’ve purposely been patient with this series, ensuring that I don’t rush ahead, and it seems to be working - here’s my homework for “Hi-Hat Conversions” - it’s played on an electronic drum kit and recorded straight to a laptop.

I intend to write to Colin to see if there’s any plan/chance of being able to get a single book/CD of the lessons - that would be much easier than trawling through many magazines!