Music Education

Scales! Make them fun, once you learnt a few, try making up your own scales. Scales are great for exploring technique. Balance. for example, when one hand should be softer than the other.

With any instrument, technique, i.e. the shape of your arms and hands when you play is really important. For several reasons: your health, bad technique can lead to injury, good technique will nurture your ability to play more demanding music.

As with learning any instrument, learning by ear is an essential skill - however, with the absence of pitch this is a slightly different skill. Memorising the layout of a drum kit and playing a virtual kit i.e. with a desk, chair and pencil whilst listening to music will really help when learning by ear.