Two day weekend! Woo!
I had worked 5 of the 6 overtime weekends so far this year. Working six days a week is EXHAUSTING, so I was definitely looking forward to having both Saturday and Sunday off this week.
I did absolutely nothing of importance, yesterday, and it was glorious. At Guitar Center, they've had a drumming thing every Saturday in February. My friend Steve (drummer for the band Rock Doctor) works in the drum department, and was in charge of teaching the workshops. Except that Steve does drum kit drumming, and has NO CLUE about African drumming. I have a slight idea about African drumming, but Middle-Eastern drumming is my specialty. So for the first Saturday, since I was the only "student", he and I went over the workshop paperwork with the African drumming, and then I taught him the Maqsoum and Ayoub Middle-Eastern rhythms. The second Saturday Steve had an emergency with his girlfriend in the hospital. Aside from me, there was a kid there, so the other drum department employee and I went over the African drumming technique (because he's a drum kit drummer as well), and then taught the kid, and basically kept it simple. The third Saturday it was only me, so I continued to teach Steve the Maqsoum and Ayoub techniques with fillers, and even showed him the Karachi rhythm. Yesterday was the final Saturday for the free drum workshop, so Steve asked more questions, and we continued playing the Maqsoum, Ayoub, and Karachi rhythms. At the end, Steve goes "I bet you didn't think YOU'd be the one teaching this workshop, did you?!" XD I'm glad Steve enjoyed it, though. It apparently got him interested in Middle-Eastern drumming enough for him to continue looking in to it, so I'll send him a few links.
Much later in the afternoon Thad and I went out to eat with his parents, then we went to his parents house and I did a project for one of my challenges in Project365.
Today we ventured down to Detroit and dined like Rock Stars at the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. We then watched the open ice skating at Campus Martius, and then walked to Greektown. I love that Greektown has speakers that actually play Greek music while you're walking down the street. Then we went home and I cleaned, took a nap, and played a bit of Assassin's Creed III's DLC and multiplayer.
Hooray for quiet weekends! Hooray for 2-day weekends!
Raine
I did absolutely nothing of importance, yesterday, and it was glorious. At Guitar Center, they've had a drumming thing every Saturday in February. My friend Steve (drummer for the band Rock Doctor) works in the drum department, and was in charge of teaching the workshops. Except that Steve does drum kit drumming, and has NO CLUE about African drumming. I have a slight idea about African drumming, but Middle-Eastern drumming is my specialty. So for the first Saturday, since I was the only "student", he and I went over the workshop paperwork with the African drumming, and then I taught him the Maqsoum and Ayoub Middle-Eastern rhythms. The second Saturday Steve had an emergency with his girlfriend in the hospital. Aside from me, there was a kid there, so the other drum department employee and I went over the African drumming technique (because he's a drum kit drummer as well), and then taught the kid, and basically kept it simple. The third Saturday it was only me, so I continued to teach Steve the Maqsoum and Ayoub techniques with fillers, and even showed him the Karachi rhythm. Yesterday was the final Saturday for the free drum workshop, so Steve asked more questions, and we continued playing the Maqsoum, Ayoub, and Karachi rhythms. At the end, Steve goes "I bet you didn't think YOU'd be the one teaching this workshop, did you?!" XD I'm glad Steve enjoyed it, though. It apparently got him interested in Middle-Eastern drumming enough for him to continue looking in to it, so I'll send him a few links.
Much later in the afternoon Thad and I went out to eat with his parents, then we went to his parents house and I did a project for one of my challenges in Project365.
Today we ventured down to Detroit and dined like Rock Stars at the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. We then watched the open ice skating at Campus Martius, and then walked to Greektown. I love that Greektown has speakers that actually play Greek music while you're walking down the street. Then we went home and I cleaned, took a nap, and played a bit of Assassin's Creed III's DLC and multiplayer.
Hooray for quiet weekends! Hooray for 2-day weekends!
Raine