Who am I?

I started playing drums in high school after playing the clarinet through elementary and middle school and realizing it would be very difficult to find work as a clarinet player later in life. My younger brother was already a drummer and so I started banging away on his drums. I started taking lessons from my 15 year old friend John from school who was the number one rudimental snare drummer in the state of Oregon. After a few months I started taking lessons from his teacher Don Worth and was soon performing in competitions myself. From the beginning I was always playing in a band of some kind whether with friends from school or older guys I met through my teacher. I was performing professionally within two years of picking up the drums, making money playing in clubs on the weekends while all my friends worked at fast food restaurants every night of the week. After high school I joined a Christian rock band and toured the entire United States for a year. When I returned I went to college to get a four year degree in computer science and got a job working at Hillsboro Music, all the while still performing regularly with bands. It was my dad's idea to start teaching drum lessons and I soon had so many students I was able to teach exclusively. I quit my job and I bought a house in Beaverton and moved all my students there and now I just teach drum lessons and perform regularly with Many different bands in the Portland area. I've been all over the world, touring Europe twice and even performed in China! Being a musician is an extremely rewarding experience and it is the best job in the world!