I know that I might be writing this kind of late since the cubicle setting most of you read this blog from has almost completely faded from memory over your holiday break. However, maybe I’ll get lucky and those of you that follow me on twitter (why aren’t you following me yet?) will see the link to those post and read it through holidazed eyes.
This time of year most of us tend to get sentimental, thinking of our first drum sets under the Christmas tree or our favorite brand of sticks that Santa carefully places in our stockings every year. For some, this will be the first year that you give your son or daughter the opportunity to learn how to play drums by purchasing them their new drum set, practice pad, sticks, or instructional DVD.
You might attend or participate in a Christmas concert, playing or listening to age old music that may or may not have been jazzed up to suit the modern era. Millions of people will watch network Christmas specials, cheesy holiday movies, or rerun marathons of a holiday classic. The important part of all of this, no matter what your beliefs, is that you spend time with your family and/or those your care about and take the time to enjoy what you do have.
Bitter about that 10 year old percussion plus kit with the cracked cymbals you’ve been playing since you first picked up a drumstick? Jealous that a fellow drummer just got that brand new solid maple, custom pork pie kit with the pristine Zildjian K Customs? It all doesn’t matter. You have the gift of playing percussion well and hopefully you have friends and family that support you doing it.
Pissed off that you just saw this other local drummer that completely upstaged you? Stop being a baby and talk to the guy about learning from him. Even if he doesn’t give you lessons, in the spirit of drummer comradery he will probably be obliged to toss you some pointers. Use that person as inspiration and not a target of jealousy.
Through the holiday season (and hopefully through out the year) you should look and be thankful for the things that are important to you and the opportunities that can and will arise in the future. Look back to the morning you walked out of your bedroom, sleepy eyed, in your footy pajamas and saw that new beginners drum kit with the red bow around it and keep that memory in the fore front of your mind. Because it truly is memories like this and the hope that you will some day provide that memory for another young drummer that keeps the holiday spirit alive.
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