Queen is such a great band, actually my first CD I ever bought as a child was "A kind of magic". :)
Unfortunately, I can't call my mother, she's a religious nutcase who still can't get over the fact that one of their children is LGBT... :(
I hope the kids are getting a kick out of my drumming, I've learnt so much from my dear late friend Wayne, who was a multi-instrumentalist, pretty much wrote all of his records himself. I miss him every day. Back when I was a little child, I snuck out from home, took a train about 150 km away, just to see his band performing live. He was sort of bamboozled by the fact that there was a little unattended child screaming their lungs out front row. Pulled me up on stage to be "safe" and yeah, that's how we became friends back in the day. We stayed friends until he passed away 11 years ago and I'm still not over it. I miss him dearly, every single day. He would've thought it's insane that I picked up drumming after my massive hearing loss on stage. Yeah, I can still drum and I'm kind of good at it. ^^
But enough with the sob story, let's hear him and his live band! throws drum sticks up the air
I've got no earthly clue on who of your very wholesome community read my previous post here, but anyways, here's some amazing news:
Yes, I agreed to be a drum teacher substitute for the one teacher who unfortunately passed away recently due to old age.
Why did I hesitate so much? Because I'm transgender, it would mean that some peeps realising I grew up in that small town area, but I don't give two shits anymore. My boyfriend, he's transgender as well, and we share a deep love for music.
Also fighting with my gauntlets on, I got all my wishes cared for. There's an open door policy with me. The door is never closed and there will always be at least two parents present. I won't have to deal with any accusations from anyone.
All I want to do is teaching drums - because I'm sort of good at it. I love music!
This video recently warmed up my heart - I want to be a cool teacher (and the teacher was the English teacher, not the music teacher, lol.)
youtube.com/watch?v=-hNci03mKAE
For myself - I aspire to bring along this great message from a band I really love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwjsbFf-l2s (Lyrics) https://genius.com/Project-pitchfork-conjure-lyrics
Can I hit the drums hard to any song? Yes. :)
Do I want any child to be able to express themselves? Oh heck yes.
Any feedback welcome, and thank you again, all of you lovely Dads for coping with my original post!
I am not starting to teach drums until August, because it's just too warm over here with the weather at the moment, but come August, let's bang the hell out of those drum kits! ^^
Everybody feel hugged here!
Yours MJ
That's the Gorn from Star Trek the original series made in the lste 60s.
Fun fact: the eyes were microphone covers.
„Am Anfang wurde das Universum erschaffen. Das machte viele Leute sehr wütend und wurde allenthalben als Schritt in die falsche Richtung angesehen.“
-Douglas Adams
Hello dads, I copy+pasted this question from your sister community.
So, long story short: I’ve been a musician for pretty much all my life. After a massive hearing loss, I picked up drums about a year ago and I’ve had so many great teachers myself. Now the local music school asked me if I could teach drums to their kids. They lost their former teacher due to old age.
I have rarely dealt with children. Sure, I was a tutor for some when it comes down to languages, but teaching music? That is so new to me and I’m actually afraid.
I am all gauntlets right now negotiating the deal here: I want espescially girls to learn a new intrument. They must be bored out of themselves just playing the flute, organ and piano.
So, my approach is probably this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL5oBbriJuQ
:D
Any hints or tips you can give me? Please?
I’m a 38 years old lesbian with basically no clue whatsoever when it comes down to dealing with kids… ^^
EDIT: I’m afraid the girls want me to play pop music on the drums, and I get easily bored by that.
Watch one of my drumming teachers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHl_gsd0OR0
XD
I am so in awe of what you wrote. I want to ignite that spark in children, and I know it's a private school, so there's that, at least. All the kids are there because they want to learn music, not being dragged there or anything.
Thank you so much for your input. :)
Yeah, I do get a lot sidetracked, when I feel a song is too boring, but I'd love to teach some young ones the basics and then go wild afterwards.
So, long story short: I've been a musician for pretty much all my life. After a massive hearing loss, I picked up drums about a year ago and I've had so many great teachers myself. Now the local music school asked me if I could teach drums to their kids. They lost their former teacher due to old age.
I have rarely dealt with children. Sure, I was a tutor for some when it comes down to languages, but teaching music? That is so new to me and I'm actually afraid.
I am all gauntles right now negotiating the deal here: I want espescially girls to learn a new intrument. They must be bored out of themselves just playing the flute, organ and piano.
So, my approach is probably this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL5oBbriJuQ
:D
Any hints or tips you can give me? Please?
I'm a 38 years old lesbian with basically no clue whatsoever when it comes down to dealing with kids... ^^
EDIT: I'm afraid the girls want me to play pop music on the drums, and I get easily bored by that.
Watch one of my drumming teachers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHl_gsd0OR0
XD
Außer mir. Ich saß gemütlich vor der Klimaanlage und habe Geteilte Fiktion mit meinem besten Freund von der grünen Insel per Dampf gedaddelt.
He should shut his gob...
I'm recording the drums part of a band's studio album right now because we're old friends and their regular drummer isn't available at the moment. I guess their album will be a bit funkier and more punk than they initially intended. :D
Cheers. It's really great and lots of fun. Already recording an album for a German band in the studio thanks to some amazing teachers out there.
So, last night I had to attend a wake. I don't know if it's only a European thing, my sisters overseas might have to google that one up just in case, but yeah, it was odd. At some point one of my best friends waltzed in with this HUGE guy, like 2 meters tall, and his tiny wife went along as well. My good friend apparently told them who I am, and the huge ass guy and his tiny wife immediately went FAN MODE:
Yoooo, your album from 2008 is in our cupboard!
I'm a shy person and being this overwhelmed with fans, that was very strange and scary to me at first. But we had a good run. Just talking about music nonstop.
To me, which I could laugh about, was the fact that I'm doing very, very different music these days, playing a different instrument, just doing my thing and yeah, I had to share phone numbers with them so I can share what I'm doing now.
A really, really weird, but fun night. Music nerds meeting another music nerd... :D
So, a bit of background about me. I play the drums for fun, used to be a professional musician in the past and basically quit after losing most of my hearing during a live gig with my former band back in 12/2008.
I only started drumming about 10 months ago, I became fairly good quick thanks to some amazing teachers, but only play in my rented session room 4 fun. That is my personal safe space and my version of self therapy.
There's no BS going on in there, just me, drums, a couch for naps, a laptop with webcam for my teachers and a mini fridge for cool drinks.
I suffer from Dysthymia and right now I'm going through a phase of so called double depression again thanks to new meds I couldn't deal with. My thoughts were getting darker and darker, which is almost impossible in the first place, and my energy levels went straight to zero.
Got a text message last night and I thought: 'Ughhh, what's it now? Who wants something from me?' while snug up in my bed.
Yeah, who was that? One of my amazing teachers from the States (I live in Europe) and he was like:
Yooo, haven't heard from you in like two weeks? You doing okay? You good? You haven't booked any new training sessions either.
Yeah, not doing so great right now. It is what it is. Can't say when I want to book a new session to be honest. Everything's fucked in my head right now.
How about you get your ass out of bed and jam with me? I don't want your money, I just want to play with you together, because I think you're awesome and I love your style. I'll never charge money from you ever again, that's a promise. I just want to play along with you, girl!
THAT was a huge compliment. A living music legend like him saying he likes my style?
So, I took my bicycle, hauled my arse over to my session room - which is about 25 minutes away in the middle of nowhere (I live in the countryside) and we just played for about 3 hours until we were both so exhausted, just laughing together, sharing stories and we kicked back a few cold ones via webcam.
That dude is so amazing and chill. And I want to thank him for getting me out of this very dark place last night.
<3
Sie sind eine der unausstehlichsten Rassen in der Galaxis - nicht direkt böse, aber mies gelaunt, bürokratisch, aufdringlich und gefühllos. Sie würden nicht einmal den kleinen Finger rühren, um ihre eigene Großmutter vor dem Gefräßigen Plapperkäfer von Traal zu retten, ohne dass Anweisungen in dreifacher Ausfertigung unterschrieben, eingereicht, zurückgereicht, beanstandet, verloren, gefunden, einer öffentlichen Untersuchung unterworfen, wieder verloren und schließlich drei Monate in weichen Torf gesteckt und als Feueranzünder wiederverwendet werden.
Hi there. A friend of mine wants to get into Star Trek (finally, yay). She asked me which series would be a good start since she loves binge watching. I honestly couldn't say. My favourites are VOY, ENT S1/S2 & SNW, but I'm a big fan of all series and watched them so many times back to back (with the exception of DIS & PIC - only once and never again). So, instead I thought we could watch the top 3 episodes of each series and then she can pick one to start watching the entire thing. Let me hear your top 3 episodes of one or several series. Just keep in mind she doesn't know any of the lore yet. I'm really looking forward to see your takes.
An old meme of mine from Risa, now sharing it here.
Bevor ich mich dann mal wieder ins Ausland verpissen muss, viel Spaß beim Anhören.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT7mKnkEpjY
I'm a bit lost here, to be fair. I went full no contact with my family back when I was 16. Took a hike, even across countries. So, apparently what happened, was my ex brother in law not keeping his mouth shut and sharing my number with my family. I still can't make heads or tails of it. But now my dad wants to be real chummy and friendy with me? Fuck that, honestly. I'm not super mad at him, more at the rest of my family, but it seriously hurts right now. What am I supposed to do? I'm at a loss here. Haven't really talked to the person for over 21 years.
A friend recently gave me this plant as a present. So far I have no experience with potted plants, but for now it is doing quite well with plenty of daylight and multiple small doses of water throughout the day. If I knew what kind of plant it was, I could take even better care of it.
