I thought I'd let you lot know how things are going in education land.
Settling in at Kidderminster College and we have lots in the pipeline. I'm doing a show on the blues on 11th Feb and we have some drum clinics happening soon too. I hope to do one with Martin Randscombe (the drum tuning guru) and we have a very famous drummer coming in I hope. Also we are putting a big seminar together on the future of music in April.
All this stuff is open to the public so if any of you guys are in or near the Midlands (UK) and want to pop down and see any of this stuff just let me know. I will be putting details on my blog as and when.
I have also revamped my drum school. We have a new website...
http://www.midlandacademyofdrumming.co.uk/index.php (http://www.midlandacademyofdrumming.co.uk/index.php)
if you guys want to have a look any advice would be welcome.
Fanks Frosties...
Pleased to hear things are going well for you.
Andy ...
Gunter Schlopenhauer ... just has to be made up ?
You probably know this, but the Studio, Session, Depping, Tuning and Recording pages are in gobbledeegook, thought I'd tell you just incase the wrong version of the site has been loaded up.
The 11th sounds interesting ... hopefully I'll be there.
Dave
Nice website, Andy.
As Dave M says, there's a couple of pages need finishing off, but it looks lovely.
I'm also very pleased that you're able to continue your private lessons.
Shame you're 2.5 hours away from here as I could probably do with a few lessons to help knock out all the bad habits I've picked up by playing for 20 years without ever having had a lesson :roll:
That potential clinic with Martin Randscombe - will that be in the Midlands? After what you've said before about Martin, I reckon it'd be well worth travelling to attend it... so long as it's not too far away!
As ever, I'll keep an eye on your blog, but the sooner I can plan stuff in, the better!
Some of the pages need text so we have gobble de gook there.
And yes, Gunter sounds suspect. I forgot to say Dave is big Frost fan, check out his band Midas, they are pretty cool IMO.
Racing Hippo...you can come for a one off lesson if you like.... :)
Quote from: "TBE"I forgot to say Dave is big Frost fan, check out his band Midas, they are pretty cool IMO.
I was thinking that Dave might be Jem's "right girl" but it seems not. I listened to some of the Midas stuff and liked what I heard. :)
Quote from: "Pedro"Quote from: "TBE"I forgot to say Dave is big Frost fan, check out his band Midas, they are pretty cool IMO.
I was thinking that Dave might be Jem's "right girl" but it seems not. I listened to some of the Midas stuff and liked what I heard. :)
Glad you like it :) It's good fun as far as 4/4 pop goes!
Should mention as well (as it's my first post) that I'm loving EIMA. 'tis good tack! Keep up the good work Jem you crazy fool :P
Gunter sends his love also.
Welcome to the board. :)
Gotta love "The Studio" page. :lol:
Looks really cool Andy! If I ever get to fly over to the UK some day I'd most certainly drop by.
Website looks brilliant indeed! keep up the good work! :D
One issue though:
QuoteUnfortunately due to licensing issues we don't offer terrestrial television.
Bummer! :?
Anyway, welcome to the board Dave. :D
Quote from: "Pedro"I listened to some of the Midas stuff and liked what I heard. :)
Likewise, well actually I heard it all and really liked it. Lots of energy, that's a good thing!! :D
Welcome to the forum Dave.
Quote from: "johninblack"Quote from: "Pedro"I listened to some of the Midas stuff and liked what I heard. :)
Likewise, well actually I heard it all and really liked it. Lots of energy, that's a good thing!! :D
Welcome to the forum Dave.
hmm....my praise did seem a little faint, didn't mean it to.
I did have a bit of difficulty with the Midas-official website....it wouldn't load at work, in fact it bombed my IE browser every time. MySpace is blocked at work so it took a bit too long to get to any samples. Pesky work and their bean-counters! :D
Quote from: "Pedro"Pesky work and their bean-counters! :D
We've just had a new "IT Policy" it bans all the sites that make the internet interesting. However it's been left to us to honour the policy, silly feckers. They are yet to physically block anything.
Where I am they allow us to make "reasonable use of the internet" in our own time (e.g. lunch break) but they have blocked MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, anything to do with games, drink, gambling, etc.
They still log ALL usage and have "clever"(ish) systems to match internet use that doesn't look like work stuff to times we book for breaks. People have been warned (and in a couple of cases sacked) for abusing the system.
One guy got dragged in by HR to explain himself because "sex" had been flagged in his usage log. Turns out he was only looking at help for Microsoft's Speadsheet program Excel but the "clever" systen saw "MSEXCEL" and no one thought to check it. :roll:
Quote from: "Pedro"One guy got dragged in by HR to explain himself because "sex" had been flagged in his usage log. Turns out he was only looking at help for Microsoft's Speadsheet program Excel but the "clever" systen saw "MSEXCEL" and no one thought to check it. :roll:
That's the sort of thing that would happen at our place if our IT dept' was clever enough to set up site blocking.
Quote from: "Pedro"One guy got dragged in by HR to explain himself because "sex" had been flagged in his usage log. Turns out he was only looking at help for Microsoft's Speadsheet program Excel but the "clever" systen saw "MSEXCEL" and no one thought to check it. :roll:
Crikey. I wouldn't last long at your place then. Not with the amount of visits I make to that specialist trans-gender advice site, Expert
sExchange.com!
Quote from: "RacingHippo"Quote from: "Pedro"One guy got dragged in by HR to explain himself because "sex" had been flagged in his usage log. Turns out he was only looking at help for Microsoft's Speadsheet program Excel but the "clever" systen saw "MSEXCEL" and no one thought to check it. :roll:
Crikey. I wouldn't last long at your place then. Not with the amount of visits I make to that specialist trans-gender advice site, ExpertsExchange.com!
:D
I don't know....we did have a bloke in marketing who stunned everyone by turning up to a works barbecue in a dress and handbag! Complete with beard!! Handed in his (her?) notice the next day....
Marketing is so much about weaving a load of bullshit about something utterly mundane in pursuit of a dollar, that you can forgive anyone involved in it for forgetting which way is "up".
Quote from: "TBE"if you guys want to have a look any advice would be welcome.
Andy, I think the site looks really good and is a comprehensive shop window to what you do. You might like to think about adding a hyperlink on the logo on each page so that people can find their way easily back to the homepage.
If you want, I know some good usability experts who love nothing more than sitting in front of a website and working out whether the navigation works well. I'll get it foc for you. If you're interested, PM me or summink :-)
Really glad that this stuff is happening for you, and think it's great you're still part of this thing (whatever this is ;) ).
Good luck
Bert
Quote from: "ich_bin_besser"Gotta love "The Studio" page. :lol:
Coming soon =P
Ah, lorem ipsum, how well I know thee...
I'll be emailing as well as this post, but there's no opening times... I work full time, so if I were to want lessons, how would that work?
Edit: Also, having gmail accounts instead of @midland... can give a bad impression.
Just saying, is all.
Quote from: "Drarok"Ah, lorem ipsum, how well I know thee...
I'll be emailing as well as this post, but there's no opening times... I work full time, so if I were to want lessons, how would that work?
Edit: Also, having gmail accounts instead of @midland... can give a bad impression.
Just saying, is all.
I've set some up but they don't seem to be working yet. :(
I will change them once they're all done and dusted :)