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So! I really like playing the drums!
It doesn't entirely come as a surprise. I've wanted to play drums since I was in second grade and it was time to pick our instruments and I asked the music teacher if I could play the drums; he looked at me and said "Sorry, Jessy, but girls don't play drums; why don't you try this nice flute instead." That wasn't necessarily a bad choice because I did like playing flute - I almost majored in it. But it still wasn't my first pick.
It's like piano, in a way, or all the things I liked about piano. I played percussion instruments in HS, too - the marimba, xylophone, all the "keyboard" percussion instruments. The thing I like most about piano is keeping a rhythm: filling in the background of a song with some kind of syncopated something. I'm not really fond of soloing (although that may just be because I'm horrible at it!); what I really like is hitting those jazz chords while people play over it.
Drumming is fun. I've always had a good sense of natural rhythm - better than my natural talent, really - and the problem is really just getting my hands (and feet) to go along with the rhythm in my head. With more practicing I'm definitely getting better at that. I like it, even when it's just three or four losers in the basement playing "The Ballad of Chasey Lane" or something. We actually tried a couple "new" songs last night and they turned out to not be as hard as I thought they would've.
Just random. Hopefully we keep playing, even if it's never to go play out somewhere.
It doesn't entirely come as a surprise. I've wanted to play drums since I was in second grade and it was time to pick our instruments and I asked the music teacher if I could play the drums; he looked at me and said "Sorry, Jessy, but girls don't play drums; why don't you try this nice flute instead." That wasn't necessarily a bad choice because I did like playing flute - I almost majored in it. But it still wasn't my first pick.
It's like piano, in a way, or all the things I liked about piano. I played percussion instruments in HS, too - the marimba, xylophone, all the "keyboard" percussion instruments. The thing I like most about piano is keeping a rhythm: filling in the background of a song with some kind of syncopated something. I'm not really fond of soloing (although that may just be because I'm horrible at it!); what I really like is hitting those jazz chords while people play over it.
Drumming is fun. I've always had a good sense of natural rhythm - better than my natural talent, really - and the problem is really just getting my hands (and feet) to go along with the rhythm in my head. With more practicing I'm definitely getting better at that. I like it, even when it's just three or four losers in the basement playing "The Ballad of Chasey Lane" or something. We actually tried a couple "new" songs last night and they turned out to not be as hard as I thought they would've.
Just random. Hopefully we keep playing, even if it's never to go play out somewhere.
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