It's Hammer Time...!

Shhhhh.. if you promise not to tell anyone I'll confess I actually like MC Hammer's 'U Can't Touch This', it's on my guilty pleasures playlist haha!  See even the most obsessed muso has a few skeletons in their musical closet.

But yep it's time to push hard again and that's a little scary but it feels different, lessons are aways great, I adore my teachers as you know but now it feels full of real purpose and  solid direction which helps more than I can possibly explain and although I think it's going to throw up some really big challenges, it's going to be hard work and at times it will really hurt - I'm enjoying myself like crazy.

So we're officially back in to kick backside mode after the Christmas break, 'introductory' funk is on the menu (maybe that's why I'm so excited!) and it's time to learn drums for real which is very very cool and very very scary.  Lots and lots of technique too so I guess I got everything I wished for, best not dare complain (at least for a few posts hey!).

Confidence is such a major issue, it's improved so much but it's such a pain.  There is a cunning plan in motion to see if that will help, I'm going to lay myself bare (well not literally, my poor teacher would be so mortified I'd never see him again!) but the plan is to record myself on drums doing my THANG and let him see the worst (think Animal when he first learnt to play the drums and you're close) and also to use seperate recordings that I've done to time in next weeks lesson.  Save us time but also flag any problems (there will be flags) and as I said in my tips post to use to to aid my confidence when I play.

Today was mind melting with the amount of work and most will be forgotten or not entirely understood but that's the price of moving forward at speed and it's one I'm happy to pay.  I'll just do my best and try to cover as much as I can in the next week.

So 2017 has started with some crazy fun and a hell of a lot of work...!  

AND I'M LOVIN' IT.............!

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