Random. Just came out of nowhere. Started with an itchy throat, though at the time was thought to have been from singing some tunes at home, much to the demise of my dogs ears haha! Saturday was ok, still nothing of consequence, but as soon as Sunday and Monday rolled around, full on sickness. Coughing sneezing congestion the works. Been taking some otc meds and...
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Never in my life have I ever had a playing exam or test for drums. I found out about it 2 weeks ago. I'm a bit of a nervous wreck right now. There wasn't much time to practice over the thanksgiving holidays as I had a gig with my fusion band and jazz playing is a whole other animal. Spent about 2 hours last night
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I teach a lot of youngsters how to play drums and recently there's been a trend I've noticed... I feel like parents are overloading their kids with too many after school activities. Just in the last month I've lost 3 drum students to the excuse of "well he has too much in his plate" or "we can't fit his lessons in his schedule" -- Parents...
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Flat tire, splitting headache... 45 minutes still left to drive home from college. Hmm ... Fuck it.... Tomorrow will be a better day!
I know that when people say "Oh you were awesome man" or "Man, you're a great drummer" --- I always find myself wanting to hide in a corner and/or give my reply of "Thanks I guess..." -- Some people tell me I should own it, but I've never felt like much of a person to have an ego. I just do what I do, the
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Well- I just want to upgrade to something cooler, better, and higher quality. My ears have been spoiled playing and testing super nice expensive drum kits for the past few months and it's time to retire these bad boys.