RandomCheese posted:

It's not impossible to learn without lessons, there are massive amounts of tutorials and videos available online to cover every area, but it is a really good ideas to get one or two lessons pretty early on just to make sure your posture and stick grip are OK, as well as seat height and drum positioning etc, otherwise you can form some pretty bad habits that are hard to break out of. I started taking lessons before I got my kit just to make sure it was something I was passionate enough about to stick to (it totally was), so I was guided through not poking my elbows out, not bunching up to the kit, not having a death-grip on my sticks etc, as opposed to the drummer in my band who had been playing for a few years before he started taking lessons so he has kept some weird habits (from my perspective at least) like only really using his thumb and index to hold the sticks (those other fingers are great for support and speed), sitting with his knees higher than his pelvis (bad for your whole body over time) and having poor dynamic control because he had basically been banging away at full volume 100% of the time. He can still drum well and is stronger than me in some areas (volume, for one) but these habits are holding him back a little and he doesn't seem to be in any hurry to change. Whatever works for him I guess, but I can tell he gets a little shirty when I correct him as he sees me primarily as a guitarist.