Dazhi: My drummer life

#DEZHI YI#

Senior drummer teacher

Chinese Drummers Association

Head of Jinan Percussion Education Alliance

Executive Vice President of the Jinan Percussion Society

National Drummer Competition Judge

National Percussion Tester

 IDEAS

  When I was a child, I lived in the country. My father was a music lover. When I was young, I went to the literary propaganda team. One day I went home from school and saw a silver four-speaker portable recorder on the table. It was 1985. The recorder spent a few months' salary on my dad, and my mother had a big fight with him. It was this four-speaker of a domestic brand that opened my musical dream. In two years, I almost fell into bed with it every night. Later, on TV, the mv of the Hong Kong and Taiwan bands, such as the Beyond Orient Express, began to appear. It was only after the drums of the so-called gongs and drums were heard. The drummer's handsome and free and easy attracted me. Until 1991, I came to a music school in the provincial capital and finally got my drummer life.

 

PLANS

In 1993, under the introduction of my teacher, I started to perform in some dance halls and teacher-level bands. I was influenced by many famous rock bands at home and abroad, and gradually got to know a few guitarists, keyboard players and singers of similar age. I formed my own band and rehearsed the performance every day, so I spent the crazy and fulfilling youth. My first drummer to admire is the Chinese imperial rock band Tang Dynasty band drummer Zhao Nian, from the wildness of his youth to the persistence of today, I admire.

In 2010, I created my own percussion studio and officially started my professional teaching. In these years, I tried almost all the drums of domestic and foreign brands. The third set of drums is Graham's GM520, this set of black and white drums. It is also the only domestic drum that I have left.

 

PROCESS

In recent years, the domestic jazz drum training market is very popular. The drum school training centers in various places have sprung up, which has brought us good employment opportunities for these professional musicians, but there are also many so-called teachers who are now learning. Selling, misleading and deceiving a lot of children and parents who really want to learn music, the drums are really simpler than some instruments, and they are quick to get started, but it’s just as difficult to really improve them. They need the supervision of the parents, the careful training of the teachers, and Do your own serious practice, but the standard of test results is not all kinds of exquisite games and test certificates.

Learning jazz drums requires a good sense of rhythm and coordination of hands and feet. I often say to the parents who came to the trial that I feel that only 10% of the children who learn music are not even talented. Ten percent is relatively poor, and the remaining eighty are similar. To enumerate this data, what I want to express is: When children grow up, there should be very few people who can really engage in the music industry. So, how do we view this kind of learning? Develop a hobby, cultivate self-cultivation, cultivate sentiment, and give them a fun, passionate, rhythmic and rhythmic beauty of childhood!

 

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