Today we’d like to introduce you to David Plesh.
David, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I’m an LA native who grew up playing music and performing and who eventually decided that he wanted to make a career out of music. For years my focus was making great art, and I am still heavily involved in doing that. But I always knew that I wanted to find a way to give back to share the knowledge and experience I had attained. And that desire led to a second career as a music instructor. Fast forward 20 years, and now I run my own private music lesson company.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Is anyone’s road smooth?? Hahaha. If you’ve had one person in your series tell you that their road has been smooth, I would like to meet them so they can tell me the secret. I’m sure there are people whose path has been beset by greater challenges, but my struggles have been enough for me, thank you very much. 😉 As a creative, it’s the constant need for great new ideas, better than the last. As a business owner, it’s the same in that you are always looking for your next great client.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
My career as an artist/musician and teacher has been pretty evenly split. As an artist and musician, I am known for being “one heck of a Rock n’ Roll drummer” whose bands over the years have stirred things up on the Sunset Strip and then taken their act nationally. As a teacher – and now “teacher of teachers” as a business owner – my “act” is decidedly more toned down. ; ) But the passion to deliver a great performance remains the same.
I am very proud of playing iconic venues across the U.S. and recording music that I would want to listen to as a fan. And I am very proud of taking on this new challenge of being responsible not for my own students but for the students of multiple teachers…who I am also responsible for. But what I am most proud of is the fact that I’ve persisted despite none of what I’ve lived professionally being part of “the plan.” If my mom had her way, I would have become a doctor or lawyer and not taken what she perceived to be the far more uncertain route. But I knew early on that with one life to live, I needed to do something that would be meaningful to me. And it has all been more than I could have asked for.
We all have a different way of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
Success is leaving my rehearsal studio late at night, knowing that the performance I gave for an audience of one was worthy of being seen by thousands. Success is hearing the squeal of surprise and excitement from a young student who suddenly realizes that they CAN do this music thing after all. Success is having a teacher tell me that they’re glad they found me and now have a great organization to feel a part of. Success…is being able to fall asleep easily at the end of the day, knowing I did the best I could and that it was good enough.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.allplaymusic.com
Image Credits
Jessica Greif Lauren Hemming DZR Images
