4: music

i started playing drums junior year of high school because i had always wanted to. i love to play drums, it's a lot of fun... but i'm finding more and more that playing with the correct people makes it even more fun.

i love tinkering around with new instruments. i secretly wish that i had lots of money, just so i could buy tons of instruments and play them all the time. maybe one day i'll be able to do that... i doubt it though.

currently i've been playing a lot more guitar than anything else. i really enjoy it, but i seriously need to get better with it. i'm progressing though. i picked it up about a year ago, and i haven't put it down much since. i play guitar way more than i play drums. i think i enjoy it more because of its portability, but i think if i always had someone to play along with on drums, i'd like playing drums more.

i bought a mandolin recently as well. i don't play it too much, but it's good as a random instrument to throw in when a song doesn't need drums. it's acoustic electric, with a humbucker pickup. it's got a pretty sweet sound. i usually run it through a compression sustainer pedal. i wish i had a few reverb petals to run it through as well, that'd be sick.

i also listen to tons of music... mostly in my car. i realized how oversaturated my life was becoming with it and i decided to cut back a little bit. although, when i get a new cd, i listen to it ad nauseam... until i'm sick of it, and so is everyone else around me.

recently i've been getting into electronic music, and i'd love to mess around with some midi processors and synth. maybe learn to play some keys. we'll see where the future leads. i need to learn how to read music first though, i think.