The leader of our music dept. doesn't now music. He just doesn't.
He sees me playing one day, and he says: "You don't look like you're playing relaxed"
I ask him what he means.
"The drummers I see who play relaxed play like this...."
He takes the sticks and holds them in Traditional grip.....Not with the Left hand in traditional, and the right hand in matched, but BOTH hands in traditional.
I tell him he's probably NEVER seen a drummer hold sticks like that. He asks me "Are you sure?" I tell him I'm sure.
I'm learning how to play the Organ. I only started a few weeks ago, so I'm very new. He plays the bass, and he's had a Triton Keyboard for years now. He sees me playing on the Organ and says: "Man your fingers look too stiff. You need to free up your fingers" ? I ask him how. He says by playing scales. I tell him that I run my scales EVERYDAY before I do anything else. He says I have to "Free up my fingers" before I practice Progressions. This from someone who will sit at the keyboard and play scales upon scales, but can't play a song to save his life. I guess his fingers aren't free yet.
He doesn't encourage. Only discourage. We don't practice, no matter HOW much I say we should (Most recently Wednesday night).
Does anyone else have a Music leader who doesn't know much about music? ???
