ddman asked:
I’m a drummer and I’m quite good but I’ve never seen any drummer performing live play from sheetmusic or reading and playing. How helpful then is reading music to a drummer?
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Learn How to Read Music
yes drummers should learn how to read music so they can tell what beats to hit to match the notes of a song
Learning to Read Music
its not at all important…..i think…..but u can..if u want.
How to Sight Read Music
it is always important to learn how to read music. It opens SO many new doors, and it get’s a whole lot easier for you to develop as a drummer if you can read music as well as play it. trust me (not because I’m a drummer, but because I love to play music on other instruments, and it helped me)
Learn How to Read Music Notes
Well if you forget an upcomming note, just read it off the paper. Also, it can help you understand the musicc.
Learn How to Read Music Notes
To add to “Same Old Scene”, I’ve used hundreds of drummers, in my bands, and every once in a while, I would run into a drummer that could read music, this helped me a lot because he would help me with musical decisions , and this formed a closer relationship with him and the other band members!! The best drummer we ever used was one that knew how to read music, and knew how to set a P A excellently, this helped my band sound really good!!