{"id":1158,"date":"2015-06-15T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/blog\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T20:40:08","slug":"how-to-get-motivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-get-motivated\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Motivated To Learn New Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MG8tNI2mc7s\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Start Your Free Membership To Drumeo Edge \u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago I asked my Facebook community: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jared.falk.drummer\/posts\/1065972813417127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What has been your biggest drumming struggle lately?<\/a>&#8221; And the top-voted response was:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-15-at-9.20.18-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-15 at 9.20.18 AM\" width=\"472\" height=\"67\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-15-at-9.20.18-AM.png 472w, https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-15-at-9.20.18-AM.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a really important topic! And while I&#8217;m not a self-help guru or anything like that, I thought I&#8217;d share the types of things that help me stay motivated as I continue to learn new things, and strive to become a better drummer.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>1. When you learn something new, share it with other people.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m a teacher and it&#8217;s what I absolutely love doing, I can&#8217;t wait to share what I&#8217;ve been practicing and then see what students do with it! So I always try to post lessons with new beats or fills &#8211; and these are usually things that I&#8217;ve been working on very recently!<\/p>\n<p>And you can do the same sort of thing. Find a drum community where you can post your own videos on what you&#8217;ve been practicing &#8211; where you can feel comfortable sharing with others and receiving some honest and positive feedback.<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I recommend Drumeo Edge<\/a>. But it&#8217;s totally up to you!)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2. When you practice, be as efficient as possible.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Most students go into a practice session without even knowing what they are planning to practice &#8211; and generally end up playing the things they already know the best.<\/p>\n<p>Benny Greb mentioned in a recent lesson on Drumeo that he actually recommends recording practice sessions so you can review your practice habits. Learning the drums isn&#8217;t just about what you practice, but also how you practice.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>3. Schedule a jam session or a gig that requires you to learn new music.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Not a lot of drummers do this. It&#8217;s easy to think that you need to improve your skills first, and only play in situations where you&#8217;re totally comfortable and confident. But if you really want to motivate yourself, consider searching for sessions or gigs that require you to stretch your skills.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you&#8217;ll need to believe that you can improve enough before it actually happens, because it&#8217;s hugely important to be fully prepared when the time comes. But by pushing yourself with slightly uncomfortable situations, you&#8217;ll be extra motivated to learn new things.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>4. The euphoric feeling of achieving a goal will motivate you more and more.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing more motivating than that incredible feeling you get when you work really, really hard and then finally &#8216;get it&#8217;. We all experienced it the first time we learned our first beat, our first fill, and then our first song! And it&#8217;s about finding more and more experiences just like that, where your hard work actually pays off with measurable, recognizable results!<\/p>\n<p>When you learn something new you and you really feel like you&#8217;ve taken your drumming to the next level, it&#8217;s a sort of out-of-body experience that motivates you to learn more and more.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>5. Have a healthy lifestyle.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>When you are practicing, it requires a high level of focus. And if you don&#8217;t have good fuel &#8211; including diet, exercise, and rest &#8211; you&#8217;re going to have trouble focusing.<\/p>\n<p>Take care of yourself and make sure you feel good before you try to push yourself in drumming. If you&#8217;re hungry, thirsty, or tired you&#8217;ll have a difficult time motivating yourself to push forward. So make sure to put some good fuel in your body!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>6. Take time to look back on the goals that you have accomplished.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You&#8217;ve accomplished a lot. And sometimes it&#8217;s easy to look at the huge mountain of things you want to accomplish ahead of you that it&#8217;s easy to forget the terrain you&#8217;ve already climbed.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve already accomplished incredible things! Enjoy the journey and when you reach new milestones make sure to recognize them and celebrate them!<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;d love to hear YOUR best tips for motivating yourself to reaching your drumming goals!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From sharing your goals with others to scheduling a session or gig with a deadline, here&#8217;s how to get motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4040,1870,4018],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-mental-health","category-technique","tag-jared-falk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17947,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/17947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}