I Created a Weekly Drumming Planner to Help You Organize Your Practice Sessions

I used to get overwhelmed by practicing drums... Now I don't. This planner changes everything.

Having clear goals is the key to drum progress. A great drummer is utilizing several different tools at once - timekeeping, dynamics, styles, independence, speed and endurance... and in practice, there's no way to address all of these things at once.

Do you ever sit down and just try to play better, just straining and getting into negative self-talk, like "damnit dude you don't sound good enough! Just play BETTER" ... ?

I used to always be in that mode... This organizational framework helps to get rid of that trash in favor of a healthy and productive mindset.

Organization = Positive Mindset

Getting organized is about only practicing a few things at a time. My current practice philosophy is to pick a maximum of two fundamental elements of drumming and focus HARD on those things.

The drum planner is designed around that concept. You pick two fundamentals and that's it for the week. Each day you take notes as work on improving those things. It's even better if you have a great teacher to work with while you do it - teachers LOVE when students have specific goals.

Here is a sample image of the planner (the real thing is larger - I shrunk it down to fit it into one photo):

Here are the download links, both as a mac-compatible "Numbers" file (you can edit the file if you want, it's open source) and as a broadly compatible PDF file. Feel free to edit, redistribute, do whatever you want.

Numbers file: http://bit.ly/weeklydrumplanner
PDF file: http://bit.ly/drumplannerPDF

This is a steemit premiere, I haven't posted it anywhere else yet. Facebook will have to wait until the morning :-)

Let me know if you want any adjustments - I’m happy to work on it more. This is a “beta version” if anything. And like I said, it’s OPEN SOURCE - if you improve upon it, please share your work with Steemit too!

DRUM TIL YOU DROP.