Pic of yourself

Tamboreter said:
With the lady who started it all 52 years ago, my former high school band director (on left).

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I would love to have a picture with my first music teacher, but there's no way she's still with us. She was ancient even back then. She must have been at least in her late 20's if not her early 30's!
 
Thomas said:
I would love to have a picture with my first music teacher, but there's no way she's still with us. She was ancient even back then. She must have been at least in her late 20's if not her early 30's!
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IKWYM! My band director was in her 20's when I first started. And she was the only female band director in the entire county (likely for a number of counties). I'm very fortunate that she never had a mindset that drums weren't for girls. I wielded it all, including heavy tenors in the days before comfortable harnesses.
 
Tamboreter said:
She is indeed!! Last time I asked, she still had 45 private students, all strings, I believe. She started me on double bass before my junior year started so that I would have a "minor" instrument under my belt for music school. :love:
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oh, wierd...I played double bass in HS concert band as well!!! But drums were my first and main instruments. My director would put me on bass on the songs where there not as many percussion parts. It helped spread the wealth around
 
My high school teacher made me play tuba in first year. I played percussion in middle school, grew up playing classical piano, and already had a drum set by then, but drum set wasn’t allowed until second year of high school. Best thing about the tuba was that I didn’t have to take it home to practice.
 
Looks fine to me. It would be fairly off putting if you were smiling the whole time.
What i like to do is find someone if the audience and just stare at them until they realize I'm looking at them while, not what I'm doing while I'm playing my parts. I play metal, so imagine arms and legs going 195-230bpm with me just focusing on one person while I'm doing it. Once they realize what's going on, that's when I smile at them.
 
Sorry, @DrumDoug, it's not you, it's the drums. That frown would turn upside-down if you spent many more thousands on a silver sparkle set! Or a bespoke handcrafted set with a hand rubbed oil finish. ;) :ROFLMAO: I'm sure there are folks here on DW who are just champing at the bit to offer their help. :D

All kidding aside, I wouldn't worry about it. Folks who know you, know your demeanor and everybody else's opinion (or photo) doesn't matter. The audience came to listen to music, not ogle the drummer - unless of course, the drummer is an actual Adonis or Aphrodite, in which case ogling would be warranted. :D

In these days of excessive cell phone pictures, Mrs Smoke remarked, "Why are you always crabby in your pictures?" Sure enough! I look like an old curmudgeon in almost every picture in her phone. (in days gone by, I was the one taking pictures, so I wasn't present in most photos) I'm not generally a crabby adze, but even when I know I was obviously happy in her phone photos, I look like an ornery bear. Oh well...

So, take it with a grain of salt. You're not alone. And that should make you smile!

 
I’m actually worse.

Very nice kit you’ve got there.
 
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