[00:00:00.00 [ Interviewer ] Hi! So why don't cha introduce yourself?
[00:00:04.00 Hi my name is Tyler Provo. I am 21 years old
[00:00:08.00 and I've been playing for music for
[00:00:12.00 let's see, I'm not very good at math,
[00:00:16.00 about 11 years.
[00:00:20.00 [ Interviewer ] So 11 years ago, what was your first, like,
[00:00:24.00 experience like? Learning music and performing it?
[00:00:28.00 Well learning, we started in elementary school
[00:00:32.00 I barely remember my first
[00:00:36.00 quote unquote "music teacher." Name was Mrs. Boswell. 
[00:00:40.00 She wasn't very good. *chuckles* And I didn't really learn a lot 
[00:00:44.00 from her. I just remembered what the notes on the staff 
[00:00:48.00 were. A,G,B,D,F and F,A,C,E. That is the only thing I took out
[00:00:52.00 of that musical experience. And then
[00:00:56.00 my first one that I remember that was competent was
[00:01:00.00 in sixth grade. It was my band director Mr. Hoffman.
[00:01:04.00 And he played clarinet and stuff and he was a woodwind
[00:01:08.00 player. And so as most woodwind players
[00:01:12.00 you find out don't really know nor care anything about
[00:01:16.00 percussionists. So we had
[00:01:20.00 random checks every know and then
[00:01:24.00 to check our music reading skills. But
[00:01:28.00 they weren't nearly as stringent as the rest of the band's.
[00:01:31.00 And we were kinda left to do our own thing.
[00:01:33.00 [ Interviewer ] So when did you first decide that you wanted to be into drumming? As opposed to
[00:01:37.00 the other instruments?
[00:01:39.00 Well I always actually wanted to play trumpet.
[00:01:42.00 I really like trumpet, I thought it was cool.
[00:01:45.00 And I realized that hey
[00:01:49.00 I have asthma and I can barely breathe when I do anything,
[00:01:53.00 so playing trumpet might not be the best choice. 
[00:01:57.00 So I was like, drums are cool and I like hittin' things.
[00:02:01.00 I get to hit stuff with other stuff. So
[00:02:04.00 and that was about the extent of my thinking into it. [ Interviewer ] *chuckles*
[00:02:08.00 And of course my band director tried to get me to play clarinet like
[00:02:12.00 he did everyone else and I said No I keep wanting to keep playing drums! [ Interviewer ] *chuckles*
[00:02:16.00 So I play drums.
[00:02:19.00 [ Interviewer ] How did, did private lessons ever figure into the equation?
[00:02:22.00 Um they were 
[00:02:25.00 more of an idea than an actual practice.
[00:02:28.00 [ Interviewer} *chuckles* Um I had one
[00:02:31.00 private teacher at one point ever
[00:02:34.00 when it came to drums. And
[00:02:37.00 I learned drumset and that was for about three weeks that lasted.
[00:02:41.00 But that everything else was pretty much,
[00:02:45.00 I wouldn't say self-taught but cuz like
[00:02:49.00 reading notation and everything was, I had help from my director.
[00:02:53.00 But all technique and stuff was completely self-taught.
[00:02:57.00 [ Interviewer ] *sigh* When you were at Southview you were on the marching
[00:03:01.00 band drumline right? 
[00:03:02.00 I was.
[00:03:04.00 [ Interviewer ] What was instr-, what was the first instrument that you you played when
[00:03:07.00 went there?
[00:03:09.00 The first instrument I played was snare drum.
[00:03:11.00 I made it as a freshman, me and my buddy.
[00:03:14.00 And we were the only two to make snare
[00:03:17.00 that year, we were that young.
[00:03:19.00 [ Interviewer ] *breathes audibly*
[00:03:22.00 [ Interviewer ] How, how much did you learn from the other members of the drumline
[00:03:25.00 would you say?
[00:03:26.00 From the other members of the drumline I remember our
[00:03:30.00 center, uh the center snare is the person who is in charge of the row,
[00:03:34.00 usually one of the most senior members.
[00:03:37.00 So we er just called the center. But I remember she would try
[00:03:40.00 and teach me things and stuff and I remember
[00:03:43.00 I absorbed a lot my first few months
[00:03:46.00 and then the more I got into it the more I realized she had no idea
[00:03:49.00 what she was really talking about. [ Interviewer ] *snickers*
[00:03:52.00 And she was the person who actually started teaching me drumset
[00:03:55.00 a year or two before that for a couple weeks and then I just stopped
[00:03:58.00 [ Interviewer ] So that was, that was the same person?
[00:04:00.00 That was the same girl, yeah. Her name was Leslie.
[00:04:02.00 But um yeah
[00:04:06.00 and then --
[00:04:08.00 [ Interviewer ] Wait so where did you get an idea for, like, what good, like, technique is?
[00:04:12.00 [ Interviewer ] Like traditional grip on the snare and on the tenors?
[00:04:15.00 Watching, watching internet videos and mimicking what I saw.
[00:04:19.00 And really just, I guess,
[00:04:23.00 logic? Is just seeing
[00:04:27.00 the way your hand works. It's like
[00:04:31.00 the way you can hold the stick, there's lots of different ways to hold it. And there's
[00:04:35.00 ways where you want, you want to do as little work as possible when you're drumming
[00:04:39.00 It's that's, that's the key factor. 
[00:04:42.00 Efficiency is what you look for at all points.
[00:04:46.00 And the way some people like
[00:04:50.00 to teach is highly inefficient. And it's, it's just 
[00:04:54.00 it makes no sense to me. And it never did at the time and it makes even 
[00:04:58.00 sense now when I realize that most of the professional world in drumming
[00:05:02.00 views it the same way I do. So
[00:05:06.00 I dunno. 
[00:05:08.00 [ Interviewer ] Alright well thank you for your time, appreciate it.
[00:05:12.00  Alright.
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