It’s the beat, quickness, sound, volume and appearance of drums that catches people’s attention. There are many different types of drums and various ways of playing them. The drumkit is the most commonly well-known type but you also have orchestral percussion sections with timpani drums, bass drums, snares drums and different types of cymbals. Marching bands also have a big percussion section mainly of snare drums and a bass drum used to keep the band in time like a metronome. This applies to all drummers because in all bands the drummer controls the tempo. I became interested in drums at a very young age. The beat and sound of the drums was always the thing that caught my attention in a song. I remember making beats on buckets, pots and pans, tabletops and any surface really, just to be able to feel like I was playing on a real set of drums. I never learned to read music for drums but have been receiving drum lessons since the age of eight. My interest and the fact I’d already been playing around with drum beats meant that I developed a skill of playing drums by ear. Most drummers have this – the skill of being able to learn how to play a song just by listening to it. The volume of the drums in songs makes it easier task to discern the drum pattern than trying to hear what the other instruments are playing. I believe this is why lots of drummers don’t learn how to read music; they feel they can hear quite clearly what is being played. Putting on a CD and playing the drums for a few hours is one of my favourite things but nothing compares to playing in a band....