Personal Ramblings - Letter to a Young Percussionist

My best friend from the Bronx published this on his blog. It's a good read and some good advice for anyone mastering a craft....


Message to a young percussionist.......
I'm not going to preach to anyone. It never did me much good. Rare is the individual wise enough to learn from observing and listening to others talk about their mistakes and not make the same ones. The human ego is such that we believe that we are immune and therefore must go through it ourselves to learn some of life's valuable lessons. No I will not preach, but rapidly coming up on 60 years of age, 37 years of which was spent playing my drums professionally, I can share some of my experiences which some of you may take to heart.
On the subject of talent let me say this. Our talent should be a source of humility. Some of us are born with more or less talent and Ive seen many with lots of natural talent never get where they wanted to go because of how they carried the gift around......

Read more : http://sentimientomanana.blogspot.com/2009/02/message-to-young-percussionist.html

Thanks to Willie Everich