The Start Of Somthing Pt. 1

   I was in 5th grade and I was moving to a new town since my dad got a new job in town called Santa Maria (SM) located in California. We lived in Santa Barbara (SB) and he didn't want to drive such a long distnace to get to work so that ment I had to say goodbye to my life in SB and move to my new life in SM. The move was kinda tough since I had to leave all my friends behind. I should up to the first day at school and it was really scarey since I was they new kid and didn't know any one. As time went by there was a announcement saying that people could sign up for band, so I signed up and I chose to learn percussion since I was already bagging on lap, desks, air drumming to songs, and etc., also I felt like I couldn't play anything else. Once I joined I instantly loved band and playing percussion since I literally get hit things and make music, plus I lucky to have an awesome band director who could actually play almost every instrument very well. I played in the school band my entire 5th and 6th grade year and continued in jr. high and I am currently in my high school band, but this is sadly my last year in it since I am senior so that's I am bummed but also excited since the experience so far has been awesome. 

 This man you see right here to your upper left is the reason why I took drums so seriously in the first place. The summer before I entered jr. high my sister introduced me to an awesome band called Blink 182 (sound familiar, yes? No? Maybe so?) and I see this guy in the back playing the drums like a maniac so after researching the members of the band I found out it was Travis Barker and once I saw him it was a total game changer for me. He was the first drummer I was ever really obsessed about and I after seeing him I wanted to make that transition from a school percussionist to a drummer playing on the kit. Near the end of eight grade my parents got me my first drumset, it was a piece crap but I didn't care at the time since I was so excited that I got a drumset, and I was just so excited because now I can play and be like my hero and try to figure what he's actually doing instead of using my legs or pillows. About a year after I got my kit I just started looking up random drum videos on Youtube and I saw players like Aaron Spears, Eric Moore, Billy Cobham, Dennis Chamber, Stewart Copeland, and etc. and I was just amazed on how great they were and it definitely opened a new era on how I look at drumming.  

  When I entered into my first year of high school I joined the marching band/ drumline (still in it to this day) and they first week I just remembered seeing the upper class playing and...oh...my....gosh....I thought they were like professionals and I was so intimidated by them and I didn't want to play the drums because I thought they were so much better than me, I felt like I would be criticized since I wasn't as good as them, and I really didn't want to play the drums at all at one point because I thought I just sucked. Around mid into my sophomore year I just to myself "You know what? I want to be good just like (the upper classman) I don't how I'm going to do it but going to do it!" So from then on I tried to practice every day for a couple hours, I tried to look up drum instructional videos on Youtube, improve my reading in music notation, learning the really basic drum rudiments since a lot of the cadences and music that I played had them and also trying to see how I can apply it to the kit, and so forth. By the end of my sophomore year I saw that I improved tremendously and I definitely felt more confident about myself when I played. 

  

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