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Mental visualize practice has been shown to help musicians as equally or more than physical practice alone. I don't recall whom did the study because it was over 20 years ago when I saw it on television. When you meditate, your clearing your mind. When you record every practice session and listen to them while meditating, your practicing mentally. It's the same as taking drum lesson when your a teacher yourself. You don't need to learn for the same reasons as a beginner. You are gleaning whatever few morsels of information you can from each teacher. So if your teaching 25 students at $10 per hour that's $250 per week. If your taking lessons from 5 different instructors at $10 per hour, that's minus $50 per week. That's not bad if you consider that your will probably seldom say to a student," That's all I can teach you, there's nothing new for me to show you." You record the lessons you teach and the one's you take yourself. You mediate to clear your mind and listen to the tapes. You can even go online and watch how others teach lessons and incorporate them into your own style. Either way you have to visualize yourself both playing and teaching. Either by visualizing the lesson or practicing it every exercise has to be performed 100 times. This way when you teach it to the student you can demonstrate how it sounds like really slow and extremely fast. Even if you have it recorded you can play it at a quarter speed to see how the drummer is playing the material.
Recording your own practices is like a mirror. If you do this while practicing with your band you can see if you are getting tighter, or indeed slowing down considerably. You can ask yourself if you played the same drum fill within 45 minutes, and if so, what type of new fill you can put in as a substitute. Mental practice is also why it's important musicians know how to write down their idea's. Guitarists whom can't read are dependable on having a guitar and tape recorder handy to take down their idea's. If you can read and write music you can be anywhere for the inspiration and not loose it because it's being copied onto paper. For Musicians that don't play drums, They should be able to see a note on a music scale and hear it in their head. This is commonly basic skills for European musicians. That's why when you see transfer students from Europe Basic Music theory is elementry to them, while American students may struggle at it.
Then there is the concept of mental and physical practice. For drummers they can use two tennis balls and sit down in a chair.
Hold each tennis ball with the palms down at the same height as your knees. Bounce the ball in your right hand and when the ball hits the floor, tap your foot. Do the same with the left hand. Then alternate with the tennis ball in the right hand hitting the floor and the left foot tapping the floor. Same thing with the left hand. Alternate with different patterns like two foot taps for each tip a tennis ball drops.
Finally when you are listening you other bands recordings, clear your mind and visualize what they are doing as they are playing.