How I began playing drums
Playing drums is often considered to be “loud”, “obtrusive” and generally “unsettling”. When I first started playing drums at the age of 11, these were the words that best described the sound I offered to the neighborhood in Las Vegas. However, if it were not for my family, I probably would have stopped too soon.
The support they provided gave me the push to continue with my hobby, I even took some drum lessons for a little while. And as time progressed, the “noise” my neighborhood came to understand turned into music. Playing drums was no longer my hobby, it was, and still is, my art. I soon became proficient enough to play the drums for a band made up of family members and jammed periodically. For 6 years, our band grew in musical influences ranging from Jazz-Fusion to Heavy Metal and helped round me out as a better player overall.
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When I turned 17, I began playing drums with other musicians in and around Las Vegas and often times played at local coffee shops for live experience. After a few live shows at some local venues, I was convinced that drumming was exactly what I wanted to do. But making it in a band was far more difficult than I expected, especially in Las Vegas, so I began looking for other ways to turn my hobby into a life, but I couldn't think of anything.
As luck would have it, while browsing for drum hardware at a local music store, a child was playing on one of the drum sets. I noticed he was having a hard time with one of the beats he was trying to get down, so I decided to lend a helping hand and get him started in the right direction with some quick drum lessons. In no time at all, he was able to play the beat and as a result, he thanked me for helping him learn how to play.
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This experience opened my eyes and brought me into a world I hadn't thought of living before. So I started teaching drum lessons to people of all ages and experience levels having never had a single bad day, putting to rest every other job I've ever had. What it's taught me is the value of giving your knowledge and your experience to someone else is far more rewarding than anything else. I provide drum lessons in Las Vegas because it's what I love to do, and I teach it to those who have the same goals I had. I provide drum lessons the way I wish I was given drum lessons; at a personal, fun, hassle-free level. I also provide drum lessons so people can turn their “noise” into “music”. It's the way my Las Vegas neighborhood, and I'm sure yours too, would like it.
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