Studio Drummer – Getting Experience

GETTING EXPERIENCE

For many, acquiring experience is their famous “catch 22”!  How does one get experience when you can’t get hired without having experience?

 

*YOU HAVE TO CREATE SITUATIONS FOR YOURSELF.*

 

Of course the most obvious situation you can create is to join a band and get experience that way.  Joining a band that is much more experienced than yourself may or may not be a good thing to do.  It may push you to develop faster or it may be that the other band members may be on a different plateau in their experience level.  You might perhaps be better joining a band where all the members have relatively the same experiential level.

 

 If you are just starting out and you’re ambitious offer to play in any studio situation for free.  Don’t ask for money at this level!  As I mention in the book I did several years of sessions for free to get experience.  It wasn’t until several years later that I actually started to get paid in a studio setting.

stay tuned for more on this topic…