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When Jack McCrae was seven years old, a 14-year-old boy who lived immediate his church taught him how to play the drums. After learning the basics, Jack started teaching himself. These days he is showing others what to do.
A 10-year-old sheila has a half-hour lesson with him on Wednesdays and two brothers turn up for theirs on Thursdays. Instructions are given on a Tama drum kit set up in the car spill out behind his family's home in Blenheim.
The other day Jack, 12, interrupted a assembly with Fergus Cairns, 8, to outline his method.
Beginners must learn the basics, Jack says, and asks Fergus to show the "four-four" beat with hits on the hi-hat drum, the snare and the bass. Next he tells Fergus to stage play an "easy roll" by hitting the snare, tom 1, tom 2 and the baffle tom tom.
Other sounds can be created with the crash cymbal and the ride cymbal. "And I barely use the splash," Jack says, holding up two feel put down cymbals on an independent stand.
"Sell it to me!" urges Fergus.
Source: Marlborough Express