• Relationships – Cultivating new relationships, growing current relationships, rekindling former relationships, and repairing broken relationsips.
• Excellence – Maximizing the quality of every detail of the business.
• Relationships – Proactively starting new relationships, constantly growing existing relationships, enthusiastically rekindling past relationships, and quickly repairing broken relationships.
• Empowerment – Teaching, delegating, marketing, and selling in a way that helps people learn and grow, while encouraging them throughout the process.
• Giving – Giving time, money, thought, and talent to causes that we feel deeply connected to.
• Wealth – When it comes to money we are aggressive obtaining it, conservative with spending it, wise in investing it, and generous in giving it away.

2012 Goals

1. Transcribe the drum part in every song from the Stevie Wonder album, Songs in the Key of Life.
2. Do the 30-minute Moeller Technique exercise at 120 bpm.
3. Review the Rock Drumming Workbook by Chet Doboe.
4. Finish Master Studies by Joe Morello.
5. Donate $2,500 to the Fender Music Foundation.
6. Save $10,000.

Story

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The One Thing in My Life That Felt Right.

I was first introduced to the power of drumming while in the third grade. Our class attended a school assembly where the school music teacher demonstrated the different instruments you could play in the band. After hearing the snare drum being played, the crowd went nuts. I went home and asked my father if I could play drums, and he responded with a firm “NO!”.

In the fourth grade, I began attending a new school. I asked about joining the band. Because the drums were so popular, their were no drum spots available. They offered me trombone. I tried it and remember practicing it PERCUSSIVELY. Pitches and slide positions weren’t for me, but I endured as long as I could.

I started drumming in the fifth grade.

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