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I'm a drums teacher and I'm this close to breaking my sticks with my bare teeth if any of my students request learning another shitty Swift song ever again. Or maybe I'll smash the window in by throwing my kit at it. Or myself. Or my students...
I call this piece, "the sound of ~~music~~ defenestration"
got it. Early 2000s Hatsune Miku songs it is
Art teachers must have gotten a lot of anime-style painting in dragonball era.
(plays punk music angrily in a corner...)
I've definitely been there. I think it's like what English teachers say when they see their students reading whatever latest YA drivel has been published (e.g. Twilight):
Encourage their passions, even if you really hate what they're currently doing with it, and trust that eventually they'll get a better sense of taste when they learn more about what else is out there.
Take the "lead a horse to water" idiom but add the corollary that the horse definitely will not drink if no one leads it to water in the first place.
Oh, no worries. I teach them 50/50 what they want to learn and the other half is what I think it's good for them to learn. That includes Blues, Jazz, Grunge, Funk, Soul, and so, so many more genres. I just hate dull pop music with a passion. :D
Even as a non-pop music hater I can't imagine going to a drumming class and wanting to play that all the time, it's just not a drum centric genre. Very few pop songs have prominent or interesting percussion.
I would imagine a drum class would be full of metal, jazz, punk, funk, etc. fans.
Most of my students are kids / teenagers and especially group classes can be somewhat annoying every now and then. But at the same time it's very rewarding. Sure, sometimes I'm a bit underwhelmed by their taste in music, but hey, I've been a dumbass kid as well back in the day. I love the lessons when I'm not taking any requests, just giving a big lecture about different music genres and then getting into the drumming zone. I teach one advanced class every 2nd week (beginners class is every week) and I love seeing my students light up when it comes to proper challenging stuff. One is a fun nu metal fan who once asked me if I knew how to play "Word up". You mean the Korn version or the actual original? Lol, his mind was blown away after hearing the original for the first time, and that was the original song plus me on the drums playing along to it. :D I might've had shitty parents, but oh dear, both of them had good taste in music and thus I know boatloads of cool stuff all the way down from the mid 50s up until the early 90s.
Not a musician, so honest question. Is her music actually bad from a theory perspective? I mean its unlikely to be ground breaking. But for pop, my assumption would be that it's more towards the upper end.
Imagine this being bored to your tits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZyaOlrb7E
Imagine being even more bored by pop music... ;-)
It's just always the same. Doesn't matter if it's Taylor or any other pop musician ever since the early 90s.
Damn, now I feel old - and I'm only 38. ^^
I just have fun on the drums playing and teaching when it comes up to speed and different tempos. I love playing challenging stuff - for example Sam & Dave. I do love playing kicks that are not going well initially with crashes. It's just me, being jaded.
But apparently all my students dig my classes, so I can't really complain.
I know next to nothing about what actually make good music but man the moment I had access to music outside of the local radio stations I was blown away by how good music could actually be.
especially drums, idk if I could ever learn how to play them but it's easily my favorite part to listen to when they're done well
May I introduce you to Drumeo? :D Rock on! I know some of the people from the channel on a personal level and some of the "listen to the first time" teachers actually taught me the ropes when I started out playing (I used to be coder / keyboarder before getting into playing drums).
I found some of the synth stuff going on in the background was pretty cool when my ex was listening to it. And as much as people love to hate her, she does have some catchy shit.
due to my specific kind of autism i have to ask: how often do people play cynthoni?
Lol, I had to look it up online. There's some very nice Breakcore elements in that music. To quote a friend of mine (who is crazy enough to actually play that sort of stuff live on an oldschool kit every now and then): "Sure, I can play Breakcore live - for about 20 minutes and then I've got to stop because otherwise it would give me a major league heart attack!" :D
Isn't starting out with easy songs good? There's a reason why every guitarist knows to play Wonderwall. I think it's just a consequence of teaching that you don't do complex stuff. The students that are able to do complex stuff probably teach themselves at that point.
It actually is just the way you described it. But one of my students is technically far beyond most others her age - and still demands playing shitty pop music. Sometimes I really want to make her angry (she's heavy on the spectrum), just so she can unleash her full potential. Have fun with other genres. Like, idk, play a song of my late friend's band Static-X. :D I know she could do it, but she prefers not to. I am not shoving or pushing her. She does what she feels fine with. So, I guess more Swift, more Lady Gaga, more Billie Eilish... ;D
And this is how I found out Wayne Static died, over a decade after the fact.
I am so sorry, he was a very dear friend of mine.
If you want to, we can talk about him via PM.