Becoming Resilient As A Drummer
Resilience as a drum teacher is an ongoing process that you can work on throughout your career. It requires a flexible, adaptive and creative approach. Take a look at the four step approach outlined below.
- Managing expectations and forward planning
- Naming it to tame it
- Acceptance
- Moving forward.
Resilience is an ongoing process that you can work on throughout your career. It requires a flexible, adaptive and creative approach. Take a look at the four step approach, step 1 outlined below.
Step One:
It is realistic and helpful to assume that there will be challenging times in your career. If you can accept that there will be difficult times ahead, you can try to prepare for them in advance – implementing self care routines, planning for quiet financial periods and developing your support network.
Remember that career progression is rarely linear in the music industry and that there will be some people you meet (such as critics, producers, promoters or fans) who just won’t get what it is that you’re about. And that’s ok.
Putting yourself ‘out there’ and receiving negative criticism can be hard to take. Remember that you can’t win them all. Managing the amount of time you spend reading reviews or engaging on social media is important if overexposure to negative comments is impacting your drummer self-confidence.