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I know so many incredible drummers a lot

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of people can play drums a lot of people

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can sing but what can you do beyond that

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how can you become a brand or an artist

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you know or represent yourself I find

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that’s the biggest challenge a lot of my

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friends who went to music school are

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virtuosic and they’re playing but they

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don’t know how to market themselves so I

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tell everybody YouTube is free people

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Instagram is free you’re not using it

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it’s your own problem you’re in Canada

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you have to go on the journey of putting

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stuff up and be very consistent

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I know people who post one video in

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March and then don’t do it until

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December for me it’s been being very

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consistent it’s been a thing of

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self-discovery I found my style I found

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my sound a musician should always record

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themselves so they know what they sound

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like they know what they look like you

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know what you got to work on so I feel

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like you’re working on your musical your

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musicianship what you’re working on

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getting yourself out there I don’t want

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to be you know like this indian girl who

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tries to play jazz oh this indian girl

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who tries to play gospel music no this

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is a jazz drummer at this gig okay

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today’s Tuesday tomorrow’s Wednesday

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okay now we have a gospel drummer okay

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Thursday no no she’s an afro-cuban

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drummer snarky puppy my favorite band

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has this quote that says music is for

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the brain and for the booty so that is

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something I try to keep my mind on that

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I love technique but I want non

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musicians tone-deaf musicians to enjoy

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what I’m playing so I try to keep a

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balance between social media networking

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and the music aspect because I don’t

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want to be a drummer that relies on an

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artist to give me work I want to have a

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name for myself and be able to stand on

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my two feet without someone hiring me

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it’s super important to promote yourself

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because especially being a musician you

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don’t want to always be at the back and

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not and you feel important it’s like you

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go on a tour and the artist is singing

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sitting in first class and you’re just

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sitting at the back why can’t the

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drummer sit in first class why can’t the

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drummer’s be in the front so that’s kind

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of been my mindset throughout that back

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in my early teens or preteens or

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whatever I wanted to be like a Sheila E

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so I was doing a lot of covers I wanted

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to be on Ellen you know playing congas

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playing drums and flipping my sticks and

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doing stuff like that and being more

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like a like a unattractive an are

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per say not much of a musician now it’s

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like I still want that you know I want

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to be on Ellen one day I still want that

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public admiration but I want the

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musicians to love it as well so for

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example what I did a couple of weeks ago

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is I love funky slippers so I go to

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Pacific Mall in Scarborough which is

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like you can get everything for so cheap

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and I picked up Mario slippers what I

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did is I took this electronic pad I took

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a bunch of Mario’s samples of him saying

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like Mario I cut them up put it on this

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pad put on my slippers played a bunch of

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fancy technique e stuff but in the

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middle made a couple of funny faces hit

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the pad different Mario sounds and I got

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so many views on the video that I put up

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and I got so many feet a lot of feedback

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and what I tend to do is that when I see

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the feedback on my YouTube Instagram or

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Facebook I’m like who’s commenting our

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only musicians commenting are is the

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public commenting who’s gravitating

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towards my stuff so that’s how I kind of

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assess what I’m doing

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