So I’ve been taking the courses for a few weeks and I’m wondering if there’s a recommended order for the courses, such as which course should I take first, and which should come after that.
I finished the “Beginner Course” & “Grooving & Improving” and is in the middle of “Breakbeat Course”. However, I’m not sure if this is the right order as I find some songs more challenging than expected. I don’t know any other instrument and any music theory. Also, I would expect myself to go from easy levels to build up necessary skills before challenging more difficult levels. Just wondering if I’m doing it right.
Would you recommend me skipping some difficult parts/songs and come back later, or start from another course before coming back to this one?
Also for other courses, is there any specific recommended order?
I don’t believe there is a real recommended order.
I also started with “Beginner Course” & “Grooving & Improving” and then explored a little “time and time again” but quickly moved to “Advanced techniques” because I was impatient. So now I pick stuff from different courses as I feel like it (e.g. Blitzkrieg Bob from “Easy, Awesome & Real”). I didn’t try the Breakbeat course yet.
Robs new course from today is also promising. I already had a lot of fun coming up with my own fills using the first pattern.
I have been thinking about difficulty levels for a while now and I think with the new design of the website I might also work on some sort of guided path for students to take.
Right now, I can say this:
Beginner course and then grooving & improving are for sure the way to start.
Then, most of the lessons in that “easy awesome and real course” will probably be fine as well, but you gotta like the songs.
From there on, it depends a little.
My guess is with the breakbeat course, it seems pretty normal to get stuck halfway because it does get a lot more difficult. The breakbeat course was one of the first ones I recorded before actually having a sense of what beginners could handle
Right now my guess is your best bet is this:
Watch the first few “Time & Tme again” lessons and apply those timing concepts to the beats you already know. From the grooving & improving and breakbeat for example.
I can also recommend my new “Building fills” course because its about fills, but it will also give yu better hand control over all if you do it right.
And then, to have something musical to do, maybe pick some of the tunes from the "Easy awesome and real course and see if you can jam along to a couple of those tracks. Some of them might be too hard but the first couple of tunes should be very doeable.
And my guess is that “Grooving & Improving 2” should be something to consider… I’m a little indecisive about that because I can also just keep making “Style guides” and make sure they connect nicely with the grooving & improving course. That way, after learning the basics, folks can focus more on music they actually like to play…
