TRAINING - BOOS - How to be a Pro Drummer

Do you want to be a pro drummer? With this course, you can learn how to go from novice to professional in just a few years! It will take thousands and thousands of hours of practice, but with hard work and dedication, you too can be like Boos. 

Target Audience

Physicians who worked hard in medical school but really wanted to be rockstars when they grew up

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the importance of practice
  2. Understand how to practice
  3. Understand that there is no excuse for not practicing
  4. Understand that you are never finished practicing
  5. Understand that you can always play faster, slower, louder, softer, more smooth, more articulate, more behind the beat or on top of the beat
  6. Understand that you must train in all styles of music
  7. Understand that you will never be the best and there will always be someone better
  8. Understand that playing on stage with others is awesome and that recording in the studio is different from playing on stage
  9. Understand that you will have many more things to carry than the guitar player and take 17 times longer to set up and break down
  10. Understand that drummers are awesome, period. 
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 Participation
Course opens: 
02/25/2026
Course expires: 
02/25/2027
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
5
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Steven Boos is a platinum selling drummer and has been featured in OutKast's movie Idlewild and Andre' 3000's Class of 3000 on Cartoon Network. He has toured nationally with the critically acclaimed hip-hop group, Culture Sol, and was the founding drummer in the Brian Bonds Theory. Boos has taught and played drums for over thirty-five years. 

The only accreditation you need is that others want you to play drums. . . and money. It is good to also get money. . . and fans. . . fans are fun also. 

Available Credit

  • 2.00 Participation

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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Please register for this course and then order yourself one pair of Vic Firth SD1-GENERAL from Steve Weiss Music: Drumsticks

 

Required Hardware/software

Drum Sticks, Drums, Heart, Dedication, and eventually, other musicians to play with together.