Thursday, 27 January 2011

Introductions!

Hi there, how are we?

My name is Kevin Christopher Howden otherwise known as Casey. I've been playing drumset and writing music for almost nine years and have been playing live for seven of those years in various bands and musical outfits and I've been playing for an alt-acoustic act called The Treehouse since October 2010.

Percussion has always been something that has excited me and inspired me, I've been told my first encounter with live band happened when I was around seven or eight years old at a village festival in Leadenham and by all accounts I was mesmerised by the drummer and even starting drawing pictures of drummers and tapping on anything I could find constantly! Alas, this passion never pushed itself towards learning to play and it wasn't until age fifteen that I took the plunge and got a friend of mine to teach me some basics on the drumset and it was an instant love. 


Since then I've studied, explored and developed my playing, retaining a healthy balance between informality in approach and good technique. My ethos has always been that music should be a personal exploration, not void of guidance but always a journey that one's self holds the map to. It's this approach that has made me the player I am today and has hopefully helped me to develop a style and sound that is individual to me.


Through my blogs here I hope to offer some insight into how I view and approach drumming, composition and music in general and hopefully help people find the guidance they're looking for along their own journey or just to get a different view on the vast realm that is music. 


Hope you enjoy reading what I have say and if so stick around, there will be plenty on it's way!


Much love to all


Casey x

p.s. no idea what has happened to the formatting of the spaces between paragraphs but I can't seem to fix it!
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3 comments:

  1. Luke Snyder7 February 2011 at 14:25

    Hey Casey, I've just run across your blog on Drummerworld, and subscribed. I really like what you said about balancing a formal and informal approach in an effort to maintain personality, ultimately. Thats something that I need to focus on more. Too often I get caught up in trying to perform something EXACTLY like other people... I guess thats missing the poing!

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  2. Casey7 February 2011 at 14:41

    Hi Luke, cheers for subscribing.

    I think we've all been there at some point; wanting to perform exactly like someone, for years I wanted to sound exactly like Gavin Harrison and then one day it hit me like a brick. I realised I was never going be Gavin Harrison...just as much as I was never going to be my friend who also plays drums, or the guys I saw down at the jam nights, so I put all my efforts into being "me".

    Whether we realise it straight away or not we all have our own sound :)

    Hope you're well,

    Casey

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  3. Luke Snyder8 February 2011 at 08:05

    Man, Gavin Harrison sure is a good guy to pick though! He's one of my favorites! But for sure, if you don't bring something new to the table...

    And I just realized that in my earlier comment, I said "poing" instead of "point." I fail at spellchecking, haha :D

    See you around Casey!

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