Musical Inspiration

I keep my mind on my music, in addition to other peoples music as much as I possibly can. I love organizing jam sessions to bring everyone’s musical talents together. By exploring and finding new bands that invent new styles by throwing down the most distinct and diverse sounds combined with brilliant lyrics. Reflecting on another bands work allows me to somewhat imitate a style. I have great respect for all instruments, because each and every instrument creates a variety of different sounds for the ears of human beings to enjoy—and for some…other instruments not so much. A personal decision of mine was to keep my focus strictly on drums, rather than try to learn a variety of instruments. I remember learning a few songs here and there on guitar and piano. I understood the concepts of many other instruments, yet, I decided to stick with my instinct and keep advancing in life as a drummer. The last few years I have had my drum set in my room. With this accessibility to my drums, I have been able to hop on and play whenever the moment is right. This has improved my skills when playing by my self, exploring and finding new rhythms and beats. When I am playing alone, I usually will start off making my own music; after I conquer everything that I wanted with my own personal style I throw on a pair of headphones. Playing in sync with songs from different bands and genres allows me to mimic other drummers, but with my own personal twist within a song. Inspiration from other drummers has molded me to be an even better drummer. Drummers like Neal Pert (Rush), Travis Barker (Blink-182/ The Transplants), Chad Sexton (311), Chris Tsagakis (Rx Bandits), and many other talented drummers have inspired me to be an admirable drummer. I really enjoy the feeling of listening to the other musical instruments and sounds that make up an entire band; in which, depending on the band is what the melody will demand from the drummer. When I play live music with my friends, I have never played with more than three other people. However, when I play with two or more people, the feeling is absolutely phenomenal. I love the sense of creativity that converges together when everyone brings his or her talents and musical gifts into a song. This is what music is all about. Loving what you do and doing it with all your might. I play my heart out—letting every emotion and thought depict my every move. Sometimes when I think to hard I tend to become unfocused and will rarely flow offbeat. When this happens I try to cover my errors and throw in a variety of different fills in order to jump into the flow of the song being played. Even so, my motions are typically consistent and my perception of a mistake might not even be subsequently—sometimes it’s all in my mind. Yet, when I am playing with friends and they have to come to an entire halt because of rhythm failure, then, I know I just made a mistake within my playing habits. Therefore, I push my self to reduce those mistakes day by day; learning from the times I fail myself, which gives me more room to grow and become better at what I love to do.