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So today, or recently my little brother had an entry on his Facebook about not wanting to teach anyone who wants to play the drumset without learning the rudements first.. I think it is a good idea for people who say flipantly that they would like to play the drumset and it looks easy..  I think learning the rudements on a single drum is a very good idea to learn rhythm and feel for playing that aspect of the drums. How long will it take to learn the rudements??  There are some 20-26 or there abouts rudements.. Why don't I know how many rudements there are??  I did learn how to play the drums and when I was in seventh grade I got a drumset for Christmas.. By this time I had been playing the drums (snare) for two years .. I learned some of the rudements but not all of them, and was bored with them.. When I got the drumset I wasn't overwhelmed by them, quite the opposite.. I had been playing ice cream buckets and coffee cans as a drumset for years.. I was watching midnight special on Friday nights for a few years so I could see what drummers do.. When I got a drumset I started playing and it came natural to me.. So could anyone set behind a drumset and play without rudements??  The rudements give a certain amount of discipline to  to playing, to learning the drumset..  I think learning to play them is a good idea especially if you don't have natural rhythm.. It's hard to tell how someone has natural rhythm, how to tell.. I'm not sure.. I understood music from an early age, and when I saw a guy play the drumset at a basketball game I knew I wanted to play them as well..   I could never teach anyone how to play the drums because I was never taught how to play them.. I did learn the snare drum but I taught myself how to play the kit drums..   I learned maybe the first five rudements then got bored and never really learned the rest of them.. I have always said I was a very good faker when it came to playing the drums, nobody believed me back then.. Now everyone can read this and know, I'm telling you here & now I never really learned all there is of how to play the drums, I just learned what got me the record deal.. or you know.. I got the gig, because I gave a shit to learn the basics, but not the whole kitten kaboodle..  just   didn't.. But I had a lot of fun though..

Badge Henry