Transcriptions

You would think that I’d abandoned my website for the lack of new content. But while tinkering with my website is not really the thing I prefer doing, it has been worthwhile recently- I have added a Transcriptions page to the Ventura Drums website.

I have been writing drum exercises and transcriptions for years, but only perhaps in the last six years have I started composing digitally. In that time, I’ve done barely more than a dozen song transcriptions. The wonderful quality of being able to access the plethora of free or inexpensive drum kit sheet music that exists on the internet is a lot easier than doing the work oneself. The hours it takes to properly transcribe a song, make sure it’s completely correct, battle yourself over the little idiosyncrasies that are hard to transcribe, and then format it to look good are easy to trade in for three or four bucks.

But hey, what kind of a teacher would I be if I didn’t transcribe a few tunes here and there? Besides, sometimes I can’t find the tunes I wanna teach, or the transcription I find is terrible. In any case, selling PDF transcriptions on the internet is a new leg of the journey for me, and we’ll see how it pans out.