Some of you may know I’m quite interested in Middle Eastern music, and I consider myself a Middle Eastern drummer. It’s just a hobby – nothing professional or anything, but I do really enjoy it.

I also teach drumming when I can, and really enjoy it. Along those lines, for those who have an iPhone, iTouch, or iPad, I have written a drumming application called DumTek that will teach the basic and some filled-in rhythms. The sound is crappy unless you use a headset, and then it is still somewhat crappy, just less so.

I hope to get better samples of my drum, and even let people upload drums later on. For now, though, you’ll have to handle just mine. Sorry :)

Get DumTek from the Application Store!

Last weekend my wife and I attended a lovely little event in the Barony of Bjornsborg in the Kingdom of Ansteorra. We had a wonderful time. There was music, a bardic circle, and lots of singing (most of it good!) coming from Cynric’s tavern.

The best things to happen there, in my opinion, was that Baron Cynric of Bedwyn was awarded with the Kingdom’s highest persona award, Lions of Ansteorra, Devenders of the Dream, and his lady wife Baroness Seraphina Maslowska was awarded with a Pelican! Congratulations to both of you!