May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Not bad, huh? (see below) It took a little while to get into it but as soon as I had the lesson with Cherisse, it lit the touch paper and got me hungry again. She has me learning new stuff and at first it seems like I’ll just never get it. I try the beat…
Hadn’t been feeling the best the past few days and suffered a mild vasovagal syncope near miss in London on Thursday in the queue to get into Broadcasting House for a recording of The News Quiz. Sadly, Miles Jupp’s last one. Didn’t know that when I got the tickets. I could feel the wave. Sat…
The drumming thing and what happened yesterday. It has nothing to do with my ability to PLAY but my ability to LEARN! Telling me “it’s early days”. I KNOW THIS! I am NOT expecting to be Cherisse after three fucking lessons! But…what WOULD help immensely is a kit set up to my level of comfort….
Cherisse’s best bud and fellow drummer extraordinaire, Emily Dolan Davies, shared a piece of advise several months back in a YouTube clip and I followed it last week and it is already proving invaluable. I felt silly, yes! I felt silly for taking it along with me and I almost just left it in my…
Tomorrow I am having my first ever drumming lesson with the dynamo that is Cherisse Osei. Can she work miracles? Let’s hope! I gotta say I’m just a TAD excited!