motleyh
Senior Member
I'm told I was banging on pots and pans as a toddler, and that my mother got me a set of pots that she kept in a bottom cupboard so I wouldn't bang up the ones she cooked with. I don't actually remember all that.
But when I was 6, this record hit the charts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWRnF6cSIO0
and I declared my intention to play drums.
A couple of years later, we could take up an instrument in school and I had changed my interest to trumpet. I didn't have any idea how to make a sound with a trumpet, though, and I failed the aptitude "audition". Took up drums as my 2nd choice.
57 years later, I'm still playing, teaching and building drums, and having a ball. The music experiences I've had over that time have been sometimes extraordinary and unique, always valuable -- and way too numerous to list here.
(I did take trumpet lessons for a couple of years at one point, but it turned out I didn't love it as much as I had thought I would.)
But when I was 6, this record hit the charts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWRnF6cSIO0
and I declared my intention to play drums.
A couple of years later, we could take up an instrument in school and I had changed my interest to trumpet. I didn't have any idea how to make a sound with a trumpet, though, and I failed the aptitude "audition". Took up drums as my 2nd choice.
57 years later, I'm still playing, teaching and building drums, and having a ball. The music experiences I've had over that time have been sometimes extraordinary and unique, always valuable -- and way too numerous to list here.
(I did take trumpet lessons for a couple of years at one point, but it turned out I didn't love it as much as I had thought I would.)