What the blog's about

OK, I'm going to post blogs about one of my hobbies and pastimes, playing music. Drumming in particualr. My father is a professional musicician and a graduate from the Berkleee College of Music in Boston so ever since I was very young I had a strong tendency towards music and the arts. My father is a drummer and plays with several local groups and gets hired by big bands and swing bands when a drummer is needed. I didn't get started on playing percussion until I was in fifth grade. It was the middle school band so I just started out playing just a snare drum and just the bass drum because we were fifth graders and that' what we were told to do basically. It wasn't until I was in seventh grade that I got started on the drum set. My middle school band teacher allowed me to play the set with two older, more experienced kids, even though I had no prior experience with the concept of hoe to play the drum set. To my surprize, at the very first jazz band practice, I was able to pick up on how to do it instantly. It was then I realized that maybe i have a knack for this kind of thing. When I went on to high school, I kind of lost interest for a while until I got into music that was very drummer and percussion oriented. Bands like Led Zeppelin, Rush, and Black Sabbath rekindled my passion for the set and i eventually started my own band which lasted for about 3 months and to be honest, was pretty terrible, me included. But as I started taking music classes, I realized that the art of percussion was much more in depth than I thought. So for my blogs and project, I will give a run down on different styles, artists, and instruments that make being a drummer and percussionist so freakin cool.