Oh, i'm motivated enough, if i get a drumset i'll be playing ALOT.

but next to : it's possible,

any1 got any tips/knows where to find online tutorials or whatever?

Two good books. Spend the $35 and get these. Don't funk around with shiddy online 'drum tabs.'

Ultimate Realistic Rock by Carmine Appice
Groove Essentials by Tommy Igoe

Maybe grab Alfreds Snare Drum Methood Book 1 for $10 after you learn how to read notation.

if you learn the wrong technique, you will need to relearn and restart everything
the drummer from AIDEN did this, and if he kept on going, he would have had to quit his drumming career and get surgery on his forearm

so yeah
at least get a month of lessons

so learning drums without taking lessons isn't possible?

@superchum : those books teach the drum basics or something? i'll try to find them

those books arent basics

get "the art of the drummer"

a great place to start imo

but seriously, just get a few lessons to start with^^

any1 knows where to find some good online lessons?


and I don't really know some1 in my location that teaches drums, nor do I have alot of money to buy lessons

Those drum books are just full of beats. They come with CD's. You hear the beat, then follow along with the book. Should at least teach you basic beats and how to read music. Alfreds Snare drum book is a basic rhythm book with a few rudiments and rolls. A tedious book to try and go through your self but if you hack your way through that and Carmine Appice's Book, you can sound like a drummer in a month or two.

Then again, as a professional music teacher, (ugh ughm) I do know that everyone learns different. Some people need someone to explain it to them. Some people need to see it. Some people need to just do it and some can just pick it up out of a book. If you have the discipline and this attribute, you can drum at a fun level in no time. I will totally agree with vezo though, it's very easy to pick up bad habits and break them. At the same time it's no fun and boaring learning some of these finely tuned skills and sometimes if the teacher is insistent on you doing 'proper' technique, it can be a deterrent on your progression.

Just go have fun with it, that's the key in the early stages of drumming.

I'v never had a drum lesson in my life, im self taught. And it's hard to say weather your better off being taught or learning on your own. I suppose being taught definitely has it's perks, but im a fairly good drummer and my technique isn't common.
I have never broken a stick, or cracked a cymbal, or split a head. And im not a soft player either, generally use nylon tipped sticks or rounded wooden tipped.

You're going to do some damage to your equipment whether you're self-taught or not. The greater concern is that you'll do irreversible damage to your body by playing incorrectly.

I started playing the drums when I was 7, my father has been playing for 24 years and he bought gnarly ass 5 piece richards set. (it's like vintage now) and I guess I just stated fooling around on it. My father said he never really gave me any lessons, the only real drum lessons he has given me is when he showed me how to adjsut the tension on my pedals.