Our First Drum Lesson!
So far the only thing my 6 year old, Kaleb, has expressed any interest in to the point of being willing to take lessons is Drums!
We've tried to talk him into taking Karate lessons and numerous other things, but he'd just rather stay at home and play Age of Mythology and Command and Conquer Red Alert, Red Alert 2, and Yuri's Revenge! He knows more about how to play the games than I do!
So, anyway, we went into the closest local drum store one Saturday afternoon, DrumWorld, and had every intention of buying a drum set. The store manager basically said not to buy one yet, instead, sign up for lessons. So we did!
We had our first drum lesson last night! Whew! We're going to need a lot of practice! Just to get the coordination down! Trying to do the simple beats will take some practice because one hand always seems to want to play when it shouldn't!
Our instructor Jeffrey Jones, also teaches at John Michael's Music in Muskogee, OK. He's currently in the band 351 Windsor.
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About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.