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[Grim_Fandango]

Thank you everyone for your kind, welcoming words! I am so thrilled to have this wonderful drum support family! I have found such joy in playing drums -- I try to play every day, even if it's only a few minutes.

Someone asked for a photo of my drum kit, and I am happy to show it. It's my baby -- when I bought this kit, I unpacked all of the boxes, and spent an entire day putting the kit together with all of the hardware, drums and cymbals. I was pretty darn proud of myself for figuring it out. Of course, I needed help getting it tuned and set up for me. Now I am much more comfortable playing around with the set up and continue to find ways to make it 'mine'.

I've definitely bonded with my drum set ...

Rocker Bunny guards my kit when not in use.

Awesome stuff. Nice kit, I can see why you'd need a guard!

[melteddrummer]

Thank you everyone for your kind, welcoming words! I am so thrilled to have this wonderful drum support family! I have found such joy in playing drums -- I try to play every day, even if it's only a few minutes.

Someone asked for a photo of my drum kit, and I am happy to show it. It's my baby -- when I bought this kit, I unpacked all of the boxes, and spent an entire day putting the kit together with all of the hardware, drums and cymbals. I was pretty darn proud of myself for figuring it out. Of course, I needed help getting it tuned and set up for me. Now I am much more comfortable playing around with the set up and continue to find ways to make it 'mine'.

I've definitely bonded with my drum set ...

Rocker Bunny guards my kit when not in use.

That's a beautiful kit you have there, cheers for the picture.

[mdainsd]

Susan, is that kit a Catalina Birch? If so it is the exact same as my first kit even the color. I switched to a DW kit but I have the Gretsch set up right next to my kit. My instructor will jump on it and start a phrase he wants me to learn and I start mimicking it. It has proven to be a very fast way for me to learn stuff that would probably take me much longer any other way. He can bring the tempo way down till I start to catch on and then drag me along and finally stop and see how long it takes me to make a mess of it at which point we start again.

[man-machine]

Wow, what a great introduction, nice to meet you Susan. Like yourself I'm in my 50's and I just read how learning a musical instrument later in life keeps the mind sharp. Both of us are on our first few months of learning, cheers!
And, like you, I'll practice in stort stints, I have an old darkroom buzzerbox I'll set for ten minutes and do that 3-6 times a day.

[man-machine]

Praise to all the fellow animal lovers aswell.

These wonderful animal companions bring joy and purpose to our lives.

[springermom]

Susan, is that kit a Catalina Birch? If so it is the exact same as my first kit even the color. I switched to a DW kit but I have the Gretsch set up right next to my kit. My instructor will jump on it and start a phrase he wants me to learn and I start mimicking it. It has proven to be a very fast way for me to learn stuff that would probably take me much longer any other way. He can bring the tempo way down till I start to catch on and then drag me along and finally stop and see how long it takes me to make a mess of it at which point we start again.

Hi mdainsd!

My kit is a Catalina Maple. It's my very first kit, and I love it!

[springermom]

Praise to all the fellow animal lovers aswell.

These wonderful animal companions bring joy and purpose to our lives.

Amen!

[caulkie]

Susan, I'm really sorry that I've not said welcome yet, so.................

WELCOME SUSAN!!!!

I'm a dog lover, something that I would never have said 18 months ago but the lady in my life whom I re-met 18 months ago (we went to school together 30 years ago) has a lovely (almost) 3 year old Blonde Labrador called Honey who has adopted me as her Daddy and doesn't leave me alone when we're together.

Welcome

P.S. Great choice on the drum kit, you wont need to change that in a hurry, good thinking on the "not needing to upgrade" attitude

[Nate Brown]

I'm a dog lover, something that I would never have said 18 months ago but the lady in my life whom I re-met 18 months ago (we went to school together 30 years ago) has a lovely (almost) 3 year old Blonde Labrador called Honey who has adopted me as her Daddy and doesn't leave me alone when we're together.

Knowing Caulkie, I bet that is one spoiled dog!!

[DeepDrummer2]

Thank you everyone for your kind, welcoming words! I am so thrilled to have this wonderful drum support family! I have found such joy in playing drums -- I try to play every day, even if it's only a few minutes.

Someone asked for a photo of my drum kit, and I am happy to show it. It's my baby -- when I bought this kit, I unpacked all of the boxes, and spent an entire day putting the kit together with all of the hardware, drums and cymbals. I was pretty darn proud of myself for figuring it out. Of course, I needed help getting it tuned and set up for me. Now I am much more comfortable playing around with the set up and continue to find ways to make it 'mine'.

I've definitely bonded with my drum set ...

Rocker Bunny guards my kit when not in use.

That is one gorgeous kit. Oh so perfect. Welcome to old and the best folks in the world. (My 56th year looms and if you call 56 old you'll hurt my feelings).