Sunday, July 24, 2011

How My 9 Year Old became a Professional Drummer

OK, well, maybe not a professional drummer - but he did end up joining an adult band and earning money when he was 9.  Here is how it all started.  Most kids want to go out and play sports, play video games, skateboard, and a variety of other things when they are a kid.  And they can be persistent.  My kid was a little different.  He was drumming on trash cans when he was 6 and 7 and used to invite the kids over from around the block and give them toy guitars and other Fischer Price instruments we had around the house, like a tambourine or two pieces of wood to clank together.  And yes - he was still using the Fischer Price yellow drum sticks from the little drum he started pounding on when he was even younger.  In fact, it wasn't unusual to take out all of my steel and aluminum bowls and make all kinds of noisy sounds with them.  How fun!! (AND NOISY!)

So his older brother - 5 years older to be exact - started a band and Andrew begged to be the drummer.  With all the sibling rivalry, he was forever quitting or being kicked out of that band.  He became the fill-in drummer when the other drummer wasn't available - but that was about it.  Not that my other son's band was that good - actually, there were a lot of dissonant sounding notes in those days.

So, one day and every day thereafter, like a broken record it was "MOM!!!  You have to get me in a band!  I need to be in a band!"  We had just come back from Woodstock '99 so both boys came back home with certain feelings of musical entitlement!  TO BE CONTINUED......... 

"I WANT TO BE IN A BAND!"   "NOW!"


 ANDREW"S BAND AT AGE 21
SINGER/SONGWRITER  PLAYS GUITAR, PIANO, DRUMS
COME LISTEN TO HIS NEW 4 SONG EP CALLED "GREED"
 




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