My son, Tyler Fortin, is 16, artis­tic, and ambi­tious. I’m so proud of him, and here’s why.

As a drum­mer for 30 years (I started when I was 11–12), I fol­lowed in the foot­steps of two of my uncles who were drum­mers. I played in high-​​school and garage bands.

But at the time, I didn’t own a drum­set and played mostly on other people’s drumk­its. (I bought my first real kit in my mid-​​20s.) So I learned very s-​​l-​​o-​​o-​​o-​​w-​​w-​​w-​​l-​​l-​​l-​​y-​​y-​​y.

Last Christ­mas and on a whim, I bought my son an elec­tronic drum­set. I thought he might like it, but didn’t expect much. Plus, with an elec­tronic kit he can play on them with head­phones so as to not dis­turb the rest of the household.

Tyler wants to be like his dad. How that makes me feel is indescribable.

I play in a rock band. Granted, my son’s style of music is a lot heav­ier than mine. But the other day, I let him play on my kit and he took advan­tage of it to record this video (this is only after a few months learn­ing the drums, all on his own, which blew me away!)…

When it comes to double-​​bass — play­ing with both feet — he’s def­i­nitely kick­ing my butt. Tyler’s pretty good at pro­duc­ing videos, too! He even uses dif­fer­ent cam­era angles. Watch the whole thing to see what I mean. It’s only about three minutes.

(Tyler, I love you so much, Son. You make your Dad so proud of you.)

Just a quick lit­tle note that we added a “prelaunch” blog, where we will be adding pre­views, news, sam­ples, and posts about the offi­cial launch of Suc­cess Chef.

While you’re there, sub­scribe to the RSS feed or join the email list, and view the spe­cial 70-​​minute prelaunch video tuto­r­ial. But if you want a sam­ple, here’s the first 15 min­utes or so of that hour-​​long video tutorial…

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Just a quick note to let you know I’m still alive. I’ve been crazy-​​busy, as my wife and I are about to pre-​​launch our upcom­ing mega-​​product, “Suc­cess Chef.”

Over 200 videos and tuto­ri­als, and counting!

Nev­er­the­less, I will be post­ing a new arti­cle next week. But until then, here’s a quick lit­tle video… Do you rec­og­nize the per­son inter­view­ing me? He’s our client, a friend, and a very well-​​known TV fig­ure. Yes, it’s John Daly!

You may remem­ber him from the widely syn­di­cated show, “Real TV,” on Fox. And now, he’s John Daly, the host of The Real Money Show. My inter­view is only one of a hand­ful of top mar­keters John grilled on video…

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