Any words of advice for a beginning drummer girl?

Work on your stamina. Work on it every day. The only complaint I ever had with female percussionists (What's the difference between a drummer and a percussionist? A Percussionist is a Musician!!!) is that they (not by any means all of them mind you) lacked stamina. They had technique, and they had the theory down better than most of the guys. Their strokes were even and clean, and they knew their keyboard instruments (mallets) like the back of their hand. Most of them shied away from Tympani and drum-set however, because they just didn't have the ability to hold their arms up for long periods of time.





This isn't a gender thing. It isn't an area where you can't be as good as anyone else, if you train for it. It is an area where most females in my experience have done too little, too late. Next time you are practicing your flamadiddles and paradiddles and flamaques, practice them from deadly slow to blazingly fast, back and forth, but practice them for just a little longer every day. Start with thirty seconds, and move up to one minute. Get to the point where you can practice them for ten minutes without a decrease in intensity. Practice moving back and forth between the toms without giving yourself a break until you feel the burn. Eventually, you should be able to do this all night without feeling that burn. It's like being able to hold your arms up perpendicular to your body forever if you want to. Hope this helps.Any words of advice for a beginning drummer girl?
Lock yourself in a room %26amp; practice 8 hours a day, every day.Any words of advice for a beginning drummer girl?
Do some wrist and hand exercises to increase your coordination. Even if you can hear rhythm perfectly and feel you can reproduce it, drumming takes a lot of coordination that is hard to find when you first start so don't get discouraged. Practice a lot.





This sounds funny but when you listen to music try tapping your foot and your hands together as it gets you used to coordinating your hands and feet.





And don't think too much or analyze. If you are passionate about rhythm, it'll just come to you when you relax and let the music play you.
If you dint have rhythm, don't play. Buy if you do, get some good sticks (size 2B), then you should be good.