This may take 20 or thirty minutes, or it might take a week or more. Drumming by nature is more about how it sounds and feels than about how much we can do or how many rhythms we know. Over time we increase what we can do. Practicing and playing are part of the same thing. We want both precision and passion in our playing.
Precision means playing clear, distinct sounds that fall in the right place for a proper feel.
Passion means releasing inhibitions and playing from our hearts and bodies. The process gets the playing out of our heads, into our bodies and allows the rhythm to come alive within us, uninhibited by the minds need to analyze and control. The process of drumming and learning become more important than the goal of learning as many rhythms as we can. Jim Greiner is in constant demand to conduct drum circle events throughout the United States.