so locked into the beat<\/strong> takes months and months of regular practice with the metronome.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBeing able to teach your feet to play as quickly as your hands is another difficulty facing many drummers. The physical coordination and dexterity to play the drums (well) requires a lot of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, even though a beginner can figure out a basic rock rhythm in less than 30 minutes (I’ve seen this many times), being able to be good enough to actually play with a band takes much, much longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In summary although the guitar and the drums are both difficult instruments<\/strong> the drums are easier<\/strong> to pick up in the beginning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You are about to embark on a long journey–I think you’re awesome for thinking a bit before deciding what journey (guitar or drums) to take. Both guitar and drums are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,12,2],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":27,"label":"Drums"},{"value":12,"label":"Guitar"},{"value":2,"label":"Instruments"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/learn-drums-or-guitar-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Peter Mitchell","author_link":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/author\/thesoundadventurer\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"Drums","slug":"drums","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":2,"count":7,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":27,"category_count":7,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Drums","category_nicename":"drums","category_parent":2},{"term_id":12,"name":"Guitar","slug":"guitar","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":2,"count":32,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":12,"category_count":32,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Guitar","category_nicename":"guitar","category_parent":2},{"term_id":2,"name":"Instruments","slug":"instruments","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":105,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":105,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Instruments","category_nicename":"instruments","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}