I started with private lessons on drums and piano at four years old. The dream was to be a rock & roll drummer.

Soon after discovering the guitar, I realized becoming a songwriter would be the most important thing in my life...

and only out of necessity..

I became so much more.

 

Derek Samuel Reese at the Brooklyn Promenade
Derek Samuel Reese as a child at the Brooklyn Promenade
Derek Samuel Reese practicing as a child
Derek Samuel Reese with a family friend jamming
Derek Samuel Reese playing a toy guitar
Derek Samuel Reese stringing a classical guitar

Derek Samuel Reese playing drums
Derek Samuel Reese at club A7 on the lower east side of Manhattan

I often wonder if people realize what goes into becoming a musical artist. There is so much to the entire process, way before anyone hears the finished song or album.

Learning to play, building confidence, improvising, playing with other musicians, listening, learning how to write a song, a melody, constructing lyrics.. Then there is the process of recording which is a completely different art form in itself.

Finally arriving at live performances which takes many years to get comfortable playing your music in front of a crowd.

It is the equivalent to taking many difficult courses in college and in order to pass...

you must be great at all of them

and the learning never stops....


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