Drumkit lessons

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does anyone have these and if so does anyone have shared lessons with two kits?

Thanks in advance.

ds has a drumkit.
he has a lesson with a drum teacher once a fortnight. The lesson is on the teacher's kit, which is above a music shop.

cost if £12 per lesson, which is pretty flexible, 30 minutes is often 45.
We have an amazing bargain I know.

How old is he, and does he have any other musical experience? (I shouldn't really be sexist and ASSUME he is a boy - Sorry!)

Basic musical experience on keyboard, recorder, or some other instrument is useful BEFORE starting drums, but obviously the perceived 'glamour' of a drum kit can be a big lure for a young person!

I took up drums aged twenty, but already played a bit of trumpet, also piano 'by ear'. Pop and rock are the things that get seen on TV, but a GOOD drummer can play ANY kind of music. I had professional lessons for about four years. I never became as good as I had hoped, but for around forty years I played in pubs, clubs, dances, old-time music hall, folk, C&W, a bit of Classical, pantomimes and musical theatre (South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Oliver, Annie etc) and several years with a barn dance band.

See what music lessons are available via your school, LEA, or county, but also learn another instrument as well if possible. On the Internet there are various 'virtual' drum and percussion sites, some are free; but of course the 'real thing' is much better! Keyboards from £100 upwards should have percussion from the keys, and can be 'programmed' via the keyboard, MIDI or computer to play drum sequences.

It's unlikely you live in this area, but this is an excellent county site I found recently:
musicservice.durhamlea.org.uk/percussion/

If you search down this you should get to samples of the Percussion section:
eyesometric.wordpress.com/category/young-musician/

And if you want to know what drums is REALLY about try this:

Thanks for posting. It's about the services being offered in our school.

It has been suggested that it would inappropriate to teach two children at once on two drumkits. I find this extraordinary.

It's probably to protect the teacher's hearing!

Individual lessons are so much more productive anyway.

Lol re hearing.one to one is great but not at fifty pounds per hour.

You wouldn't have an hour lesson though. 20 or 30 mins is the norm depending on age and standRd of child. I think £20 for a half hour lesson in any instrument is fairly standard, so a rate of £25 isn't too excessive, though it ain't a cheap hobby I agree.

Ds1 has a shared drum lesson w another child but they take turns on the kit his teacher brings. He has his own kit at home to practice on when he can get dh off it

£50 per hour is excessive.

We pay £12 fr 30 minutes (but I know that is cheap)
for piano we pay £14 for 30 minutes.

I think the schools music service charges £15 for 30 minutes.

I don't think a shared lesson on 2 drum kits would be very easy. ds's teacher has 2 drum kits on 2 adjacent rooms. He sometimes does it where it teaches 15 minutes to one child, and then gets them to play along to a cd of songs with that beat for 15 minutes while he teaches another child, then he swaps back again. It was very neat, it meant they had 15 min lesson, 15 min practice, 15 min lesson.

hearing is no joke, teacher and student both wear ear protectors.

Learning about 'time', reading music, stick-control, accents, dynamics, and drum rudiments can be started on practice pads (or, if you don't have one, a thick telephone directory) and it could be several months before technique is secure enough to require access to a kit.