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.)

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That SUCKS!

How would you like to uncover a lit­tle known way to do 4 to 7 times bet­ter… with­out hav­ing to attract a sin­gle addi­tional vis­i­tor to your website?

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A few things to note today:

1. I love Word­Press so much, that I decided to con­vert my band’s web­site into a blog. (I’m not done yet. More web­sites to fol­low!) You see, it’s not really to use as a blog but as a con­tent deliv­ery system.

Why? Because the results (such as search engine rank­ings, the stam­pede of instant traf­fic using blog soft­ware, and par­tic­u­larly WordPress’s many plu­g­ins) are absolutely astonishing.

Go ahed and check it out Fortin​Drums​.com. (There’s a free video demo there, too. You’ll see yours truly ban­gin’ on them drums in the background.)

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