[drumming diary] Thirty Years

If my memory and/or record-keeping serve me, today is the 30th anniversary of my first drum lesson. As is usually the case with these sorts of things, I sort of forgot to plan any celebration.

I should fire up Rhapsody and just listen to bad-ass drummers for the rest of the day, I think.

The reason I know this is because my first two method books, Stick Control from George Lawrence Stone and Syncopation from Ted Reed, never, ever go out of style, and I've continued working out of those books for years and years. I remember seeing the date "11/7/77" written on the first page of Stick Control, in particular, whenever I would go back to the exercises on that first page.

Now, there's always a chance that I started lessons before that particular lesson, but if that was my second lesson, I would have started on Halloween. As a seven-year old. And I know Scotch Plains Music Center tends to start new students at the beginning of the month. So I'm pretty confident today is the day.