Latest Percussion Recital

Thomas has been taking percussion lessons with Alyssa for over 5 years and during most of that time has concentrated on the snare drum (which he played for most Philharmonia pieces last year) and the marimba. But about a year ago Alyssa pressed him to start on the drum set. I'm not sure why Thomas resisted for so long but he absolutely refused to play for more than a minute or two during lessons. Then about a month ago he decided that he would give it some serious effort. His early practice sessions didn't sound like much--several times I accused him of "pissing about" and he would insist (quite energetically) that he was in fact very earnestly practicing very difficult parts of real songs. Shows what I know. The song he is performing here is called Super Nova and is over 6 minutes long. I have edited out the beginning half (which had a bit of a "moment" when about a minute in Thomas realized that the snare wasn't on) and just provided the last two minutes. It's not as pretty as the marimba, but when you keep in mind that he only started practicing the drum set about a month ago, it isn't too shabby. Now he can focus his efforts on mastering stick tossing and twirling while he plays!