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BiographyName: Jonathan Soliman
Styles/Influences: Ska/New Age Rock/Alternative to Back to the days of soul with Tower of Power style funk. I was inspired to start drumming by wanting to express my emotions in music. Much of my music now has a funk/Rush style influence to it. History: I started playing drums in 7th grade band under the direction of Mr. Chris Watts. He was one of the best people to learn from in the long run because he had a funk band that would meet at about 7PM every Wednesday and I would always come back to school to listen to them and after watching the drummer and imaging the fun I could have playing funk and similar styles of music, I was hooked. Three years later the last thing that I expected happened to me. I suffered some very severe head trauma and was put into a coma for two weeks. I was hit in the head very hard by a pressurized misting device that came apart. It hit me square in my right eye and grazed off of my polycarbonate glasses and hit my skull fracturing it. At that moment, everything was all down hill from there. I had to learn how to walk and talk again in accompaniment with having almost no vision in my right eye, which may never get better due to nerve damage. Also, the whole left side of my body gets lazy on me due to nerve synapses not doing what they need to, or just being insanely slow. Because of this, double bass work is almost 100% out of the question and my left hand is slugish trying to get single handed fills out. Plus the injury made me lose a chance of obtaining my dream of marching snare for drum line because of not having any vision to my right side to guide to the form. But, since I can't get to do my high school dream I might as well keep doing what I love to do. So now I just try to let music be my escape from all of the emotion I have to face day-in and day-out. It might not always help me get over my injury, but drumming and song writing can help a bunch. Now since I have compiled so many songs/parts of songs I have been thinking of starting a band with ska, funk, and swing all mixed into one, since it is mostly right handed and single bass, plus I can finally feel like there is some point in enduring through this injury and all of the remnants that may never go away. My drumming might not be the greatest, but why give up? Whenever I get depressed about my drumming I just think about how Elbert Hubbard once said "There is no failure except in no longer trying." and think to myself, "Practice makes perfect, so why give up? "Drum to live and live to drum". GearCymbals, heads, and diagram updated 02-28-08 
Drums: Pearl Export in Black Finish
Cymbals: Various
Hardware & Misc:
The rest of my hardware consists of Pearl stands and a Gibraltar Rack. Heads: Various
Sticks: Whatever is on sale. 5A & 5B Size. |
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