Kid Guitars

It should come as no surprise that a good sense of rhythm is the single most important attribute for an aspiring drummer. It doesn’t matter how many times you can twirl a drumstick in your fingers without dropping it – in the end, those moves are just stage theatrics and nothing more. The true test of a drummer’s mettle is deceptively simple: can he keep the beat?

There are several methods that youngsters can use to improve rhythm while getting used to their kids drums. Counting out loud – so that it’s under one’s breath and barely audible – can instill rhythm in the same way that a metronome does. Eventually the child will learn to transfer that steady count to a tapping toe or some other less overt method of keeping rhythm.