So my challenge for the day is to find a teacher. But I just don't want any teacher. I want a teacher like the Karate Kid had, but for drums. I want a mentor. That would be easy if I came from a musical family. But my drummer brother is in another state and nobody else in the family plays any instrument. I could call my former teacher, but I will look like an idiot because I wasn't exactly the star student in the past.
I started drum lessons in the spring of 2007, a few months before my marriage fell apart. I did pretty good with lessons for those 3 months. Then in one day my marriage was over. Well it didn't exactly happen in one day. Things were going on that I didn't know about. The day that I found it all out was the day it was over for me though. I didn't exactly deal with it well. I didn't want it to be over, but I didn't make the choices that ended it. I couldn't fix it because I wasn't in control of his choices. So I chose to leave the marriage physically. But I didn't leave it mentally or emotionally. I was a torrid wreck for about 3 years. It was like a really bad roller coaster ride through the dark that doesn't stop long enough for you to get off. Anyways, I continued my lessons, but I wasn't focused and practiced sporadically. Somehow I finished vol. 1 snare, and started vol. 2 in 2009, but I quit last summer. I have talked to my former teacher a few times since then, but he is really busy playing in a new band now and will probably have to stop teaching because of the band's tour schedule.
Find a teacher. That's what I must do today, so I can figure out the difference between my quarter and eighth notes. Because they are never always written the same in a measure. The note synonyms are what gets me confused a lot of the time.
But my teacher has to be special. Someone that I can connect to and not make me feel stupid. It is already intimidating enough being my age, being a girl and walking into a music store full of young guys and asking to sign up for drum lessons. Believe me I know, I've done it twice. Guess if I'm going to do this thing I better make some calls. Hey, I know, there's a nearby college that has a music program. Hmmm, maybe this won't be as hard as I thought.
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