Entry no.1.

I have been influenced, by significant people, to start writing a blog.

                          Whether its interesting or not, id like to get used to the idea of inputting to this weekly. Im not too sure about how often it should be updated but im thinking daily is a bit too frequent. Any opinions? Reckon daily is too much? Chocolate hobnobs or digestives?

                          Before i go off on a tangent about biscuits, im going to return to the original intention behind this blog. My sister, Darcie, has been on at me for weeks about writing a blog about my musicianship, expressing my thoughts, feelings and sharing experiences with however many people. I wasn't particularly keen on it at first but now i've actually typed out a few nice sentences, i've been convinced. 

                       Today, after sitting in my car for at least two hours, i finally decided to go and join in with the jam. I thought, what the fuck am i doing here sat on my own listening to Karnivool, ( https://www.facebook.com/karnivool?fref=ts  ) when i could be jamming with and enjoying making music with my friends, at the studio. (NOT my studio, the proper professional one.) And so drove swiftly over there and went metal as fuck. The kit is quite large, six toms, 7 cymbals not including hi hats, and a mini tymp just for extra use. Its sound is definitely tuned around to the rock side of things, and it has that look of being a prog rock players kit. Crazy, quirky but also mean and aggressive (if you could call prog rock aggressive). But leading to what i was going to say, i had got into the studio and saw that kit for the second time, i could say i have alot of respect for the owner of the unit. He isnt one of these guys who says " oh yeah only good players can touch a kit like that, its too expensive to be messed about on" kudos to the guy in my eyes, ill go into this in more detail in a bit but what im saying is, he allows a beginner to be influenced to play.

                         I reckon the state of a kit has everything to do with their influence and desire to play. Theoretically, a beginner who has been given a kit but not allowed to use it at all at any time due to neighbors, family, space or just pure annoyance, is less likely to want to play generally, and is more likely to not look after the kit, and let it down into disrepair, and make a massive waste of it for years just because its a naturally loud instrument. Even after that time period has been and gone. If the kit SOUNDS terrible, or looks bad, or doesn't even work properly in terms of setting up, a player can be put off the entire prospect of playing. I also think that drum teachers should also include how to properly set up a set, and to tune well in the first couple of hours of lessons, as opposed to only teaching how to play the basics and leaving the item itself to a later period in their lessons. 

                          Not entirely sure of how to end ones first entry to a blog, but ill work it out as it goes. ciao!