Introduction to the Pieces

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# Drum Lesson: Developing Your Skills

Now that you've worked your way through the lessons and developed some really nice basic drum grooves and fills, you're ready to work on your full pieces.

## Playing with Friends

If you have any friends who are working on the Rock School Guitar method or the Rock School Bass method, they'll be learning the same pieces.

- **Group Playing**: If you have an opportunity to get together and try playing these pieces in a little group, or you can play along with the backing tracks with your friends, it's really exciting.
- **Goal**: Ultimately, this is what we're trying to lead towards: being able to play in a band.

## Experimentation and Mistakes

Cultivating your own ideas and experimenting with different grooves and fills is essential.

- **Don’t Worry About Mistakes**: Don’t worry if they don’t work. We all need to make mistakes in order to get better.
- **Exciting Development**: I think that would be a really exciting way to develop this even further.

## Working with Backing Tracks

If you don't have friends playing those instruments, these backing tracks are a lot of fun to work with.

- **Explore Options**: You can stick to the parts as written, or you can try developing some of your own ideas with it.
- **Focus on Development**: It's all exciting, it's all development, and let’s run the pieces!

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