Perhaps a video of me just grooving with the band today....

So, after all this solo stuff going on, I'm sure most people probably think I don't know what it is to play with and for other musicians.  I mean, why practice to have all these chops just to hide them when you can gleefully obliterate your band members with mind-bending drumming displays?

Never fear, for my first couple of years in college cured me of that!  You haven't lived until you pull up a chart with a big band to discover a basic 12-bar blues number, kick it off, and then have the band director stop the band after seven bars, and then proceed to rip into the drummer for not having his s**t together!
I thank my lucky stars daily that I learned this lesson, and regret that I hadn't learned it earlier, like in the 8th grade!  Time and groove are really where it's at, and I'm happy as a clam to be laying it down for the band and the potential dancers listening.  Enjoy this Stevie Wonder classic....

Finally! A double bass improv drum solo!

After about a month, I've bravely created a video for everyone to see my progress on the double bass drums.  My head started to screw itself on straight after I reminded myself what the role of the drummer really is.  So I think I feel OK about having nine drums to play but only using three of them at a time.  All of a sudden my musical ideas started to flow correctly and that was cool.  I was getting pretty tired of sounding so stupid on the big kit!  Enjoy and do let me know what you think.

Drummer with two bass drums AVAILABLE!