CURRENT SINGLE: “Sunrise Tells the Story”
When Midland’s Cameron Duddy was younger, he was a pretty decent baseball player, thanks in part to the rigorous practice drills his father put him through. “Part of my off the field practice was to stand in the driveway and throw a tennis ball against the garage door and catch it with my mitt,” recalls Cameron. “Do 500 of those and then you’re done. And then lay on the ground and throw the baseball up and catch it with your bare hand and do that a hundred times.”
Cameron admits that as a kid, he hated those drills and thought they were monotonous, but now he says, “What I learned from doing that is the art of repetition and focus and understanding that if you do something enough, you’ll hopefully get good at it. And I’ve applied that technique to music, and it’s served me well.”
Whether it’s music or baseball or something else, Cameron says he hopes to pass along the lessons he learned from those baseball drills to his own son, Kitt, who is six, when he gets older.
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Cameron Duddy – “Part of my off the field practice was to stand in the driveway and throw a tennis ball against the garage door and catch it with my mitt. Do 500 of those and then you’re done. And then lay on the ground and throw the baseball up and catch it with your bare hand and do that a hundred times. And at the time it seemed such a monotonous thing and I hated it, but what I learned from doing that is the art of repetition and focus and understanding that if you do something enough, you’ll hopefully get good at it. And I’ve applied that technique to music, and it’s served me well.”