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Posted by: Kizaze44 Sep 15 2007, 12:13 AM

So, after many years of hacking around (self-taught) I finally found GMC and it's opened up my world and got me excited about playing and learning again. Needless to say, my skills have rapidly increased and I'm jamming again w/ bandmates - including my son:

I have an 11-year old son who is an amazing drummer, but -- also self-taught. Anyway, I think he is ready for some instruction, but like me, is resistant to do the "once a week, in-person lessons" at a drum shop or whatever. He is a computer geek like most kids his age and might get into a "DrumMasterClass". Does anything like GMC exist for drummers?? He has seen GMC and I've already caught him w/ my guitar doing the beginner lessons so I know he'd be into it.

Maybe Kris knows, or maybe GMC will expand, as it has w/ bass and vocal lessons?

Thanks in advance for any replies, and again, I am in awe of the awesome talent I see every day here!

-Kizaze

Posted by: FretDancer69 Sep 15 2007, 01:44 PM

good question, it would be great to have some drum lessons, not that many, but just some, to increase a little in variety. I also think that Kris might like the idea of affiliating (idk if thats the word) with other "Masterclass" sites. Sites that have the same goal, same great community, etc. as GMC, but of different instruments, in this case, drums. What do you guys think?

Posted by: strat_daniel Sep 15 2007, 01:51 PM

I'm really excited by this idea. I recently started on here, and this site is awesome; my guitar has gotten a lot better. I've drummed a lot longer though, and I'd be happy to put together some lessons for this site. I pm'ed Kris about it earlier today to see what he thought, and I'll post here when I get his answer.

Posted by: Robin Sep 15 2007, 10:23 PM

Drum lessons on GMC seems like a great idea!

Are there any?

Posted by: FretDancer69 Sep 15 2007, 11:04 PM

, no they're not . I was reffering to wannabe sites.

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Sep 15 2007, 11:13 PM

Basically we are open for any kind of lesson - if we were contacted by a good drum instructor tehre is no way we would say no!

So yes this is a good idea!

Posted by: FretDancer69 Sep 15 2007, 11:16 PM

thats awesome kris! Hey, i think like an ad on the main page stating what you said, that lessons on other instruments are well accepted on GMC would be good and would encourage other instructors to join!

Posted by: Kristofer Dahl Sep 15 2007, 11:24 PM

We actually had exactly that for a couple of months in the teach online section - however having it somewhere on the main page would probably be more effective. But that leads us to another question - do we really want to sacrifice space on the main page - which could lead to us missing a new guitarist instrcutor teaching a whole new style...?

This is the problem with web that you only have so much space - so you have to be careful with the priority of things to display...

Posted by: FretDancer69 Sep 15 2007, 11:28 PM

good point. We definately dont want to sacrifice space for guitar lessons, not me. Perhaps a small portion of text with a hyperlink to more detailed info.? Im not sure... what do the rest think?

Posted by: muris Sep 15 2007, 11:32 PM

I can ask my drummer if you want Kris.
But still you must be careful..as you said,sacrificing guitar lessons with drum stuff
is no good for site called GMC.

Posted by: benhowell Sep 15 2007, 11:47 PM

Ha ha indeed.

-Ben

Posted by: strat_daniel Sep 16 2007, 01:08 AM

Great! I'm by no means a virtuoso, but I know I could put together beginner and intermediate lessons. There's also a lot of genre-specific drumming that can be taught, as well.
And Muris, I understand your concern. The bass and singing lessons all kinda go with guitar anyways, so drumming would be a bit of a jump. I really think that it would attract a lot of people though, and teach some guitarists to play the drums and some drummers to play the guitar. Never a bad thing.

Posted by: Thilo Sep 16 2007, 01:13 AM

Here's something for your son:
http://freedrumlessons.com/

Great free video lessons, complete with notation etc. which taught me basic drumming in less than two days! There's also lots of advanced stuff on that site.

Posted by: strat_daniel Sep 16 2007, 01:25 AM

Nice find, Thilo! ^ I'm hitting the latin lessons now

Posted by: Kizaze44 Sep 16 2007, 01:48 AM

Thanks Thilo, I will show him.

-Kiz

Posted by: jammer91 Sep 16 2007, 02:29 AM

I have an idea. Since GMC has few drummers you can create torrents. You just record your drum lesson and then turn the video file into a torrent using a program such as BITCOMET (its free). Torrent files are only 10KB only, so you can upload many vids. Users just have to open the torrent file and dowload the video.

The only problem is that people can upload you vids in other sites. To fix that you could ask some of the computer techie staff of GMC to put a verification user name and password (it can be done with a windows media player plug in, using your GMC account on each vid) on the downloaded vids keeping the vids safe.

Posted by: strat_daniel Sep 16 2007, 03:13 AM

That could work, jammer. It'd be a bit less user-friendly to access, but like you said, there's probably not enough people for that to be a problem. You know, for that matter, we don't even know how many people would be at all. I think I'm going to start a new post with a poll to try and find out...

Posted by: muris Sep 16 2007, 03:23 AM

Of course,I didn't say NO WAY...just quoted Kris and his saying about being careful with it.

Posted by: ace_frehely Sep 16 2007, 03:31 AM

that would be cool..but i think its ok on gmc because theres singing lessons and other stuff than guitar..there just hasnt been any drummer looking at gmc or that wants to send videos.. we would have to tell them

Posted by: botoxfox Sep 16 2007, 05:05 AM

Well, drum lessons would be cool I guess, although I myself have no plans whatsoever to start playing drums. Maybe some day...

Posted by: JVM Sep 16 2007, 09:58 AM

That drum site is really cool. I don't like how the instructors have to say everything in the video, they could just type it out. Makes getting to the cool stuff take a while

Posted by: strat_daniel Sep 17 2007, 02:14 AM

Oh I know, Muris. I didn't mean to seem like I was attacking you. What you said is something important to consider, though.