Finalising my idea

I had a meeting with lecturer Gareth Jones today to discuss my idea of writing a drum tuition book, it really helped me get a better idea of where to go with it.

I think tasks for now are to look into what's already available in terms of drum tuition books and see what they offer and if there is anything they don't cover (my initial thought on this based on other books I've read is drum care and maintenance guidance) to see if I can pin point a specific audience for my book.

I also need to do research into learning and teaching, since this will be an educational book of sorts. This is a pretty large area, but I can focus it on techniques for learning motor skills over say more academic learning. Not that I should rule it out completely, but the whole learning/ education methods thing is a vast area and I should try to keep myself from getting too distracted by less relevant material.

I will also need to be making a schedule soon, to see how long I think it would take to do the whole book, and then plan how much (how many chapters) I will produce based on that given my time restraints.

Final product will probably be a complete table of contents for the book, and just a select few chapters as demonstration with the audio accompanying these chapters.

Another thing discussed was testing my book on people; whether to do this as part of the writing process (write a chapter, try it out, see if it works and make improvements) or to do it after the book is written and use it as a form of evaluation is something I need to make up my mind on.