We know it sounds crazy. But this is one hundred percent true and we have the magazine clippings to prove it.
About twenty years ago, Mark Feldman, one of BANG's drum instructors, saw an ad in MODERN DRUMMER magazine for a drum solo contest.
In fact, it was the very first drum solo contest that MD ever ran in their hallowed pages. Since he had been practicing quite a bit and studying rabidly at DRUMMER's COLLECTIVE at the time, Mark went into a friend's recording studio to make his entry for the contest. It was submitted on cassette.
Anyway, Mark was one of the winners--selected by Neil Peart himself--- and Neil gave Mark his Slingerland drum kit...the one Neil played on the recording "2112" as well as on other seminal RUSH albums.
In 2009, Mark sold the kit on EBAY for $25,000. It took a while, but ultimately, Mark got paid $25,000 for a single drum solo.
So, what is the point?
The point is that anything is possible. You just have to DO. If you want to play drums at a high level, you need good information and a good teacher and a lot of time in the practice room doing hard work.
You can acheive any dream, but you have to have the courage to go after it and the focus to spend lots of time practicing your craft.
Yes, you can make money with your art. But you probably won't make any if you're not any good. You could say this story is about a fluke, or about luck, but we believe it is about opportunity meeting preparation, and that creates luck every time.
At BANG! our job is to help you with that preparation. We think we have the credentials to back up our assertion that we can help you get good at the drums....if nothing else, this story is about that....dreams of being a good drummer and achieving them.
Come study drums with us.
BANG!
