I really miss formal musical education, like I said already, but there are things on the net that come quite close to a formal teacher/student learning process.
NO, It's not a chat room where you talk to drummers live and play together via webcam... this could be very interesting, but extremely difficult to manage and supervise. And music is one of these things you either learn by yourself, or with someone with whom you have to work "live", or else it's just distracting...
HOWEVER, I really like this website Free Drum Lessons.
It offers very high quality drum lessons. From beginners to polyrhythm masters, anyone can learn on this site. There are a few e-teachers on this project, and all of them seem quite passionate about teaching drums.
Each lesson looks at a particular aspect of drumming. You find everything on there, from drum tuning to music notation, from dynamics to rudiments, or counting in 5/4. You can learn rock drumming, jazz drumming, latin drumming, and double-bass. you name it they have it. Each lesson is also associated to downloadable sheet music of the stuff covered in the video, so you can print it out, jot down a few things from the video, shut down the computer and PLAY!.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!! If one day you just don't feel like "learning" (in the formal sense) all that much, but still feel that urge to play for fun...you can conciliate both! Because free drum lessons has a whole bunch of pretty cool play-alongs, and you can download the drumless audio-only mp3 track for free as well!
Ex. of a play-along:
So yeah, just thought I'd share this with you ;-)
