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  • Kick Drum Exercise

    Kick Drum Exercise

    Have insomnia this morning. And what’s the best thing to do at 3am when you cant sleep? Practice the drums, of course. I searched online for exercises to help with my kick speed and came up with this Drumeo video. I also moved my foot to the middle of the pedal and that has immediately…

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  • First Time Recording Acoustic Drum Kit

    First Time Recording Acoustic Drum Kit

    So I found an interesting rock beat that seemed like a great workout for my kicks. And boy howdy. 6 kicks per measure. I also tried recording my acoustic kit for the first time. So many firsts lately, it’s great. This recording is just using one Shure SM58 in the room… I could not hear…

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  • Second Attempt: Basic Punk Beat

    Second Attempt: Basic Punk Beat

    Here’s me doing some more Basic Punk Beat, but I’ve stepped it up to 125 bpm. Doing this with heal down. I noticed I really wanted to do it heal up since it seems easier and is louder. Right now I’m not sure what I should be doing, but heal down is harder. So, since…

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  • Another Picture of Owl

    Another Picture of Owl

    Last night I got another chance to take a picture of an owl. It’s a drastic improvement over my first image of an owl. This is not a flash. It’s a long exposure. And I’m very surprised my phone could do that without a tripod. Just me holding the phone for 3 seconds. It was…

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  • First Attempt: Basic Punk Beat

    First Attempt: Basic Punk Beat

    Went through my old bookmarks looking for interesting things to learn on the drums and came across this video on punk beats. Here’s my attempt at the basic beat. It’s double time, which to me sounds like four on the floor with the snare on the “and”. And the hi hat on everything. I worked…

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  • Good Drum Exercise:  Build Up

    Good Drum Exercise: Build Up

    Practicing another tip from the fabulous Sound Like Emma, the build up. Simultaneous 16ths on floor tom and snare, until beat 3, then on “and” do a kick, flam, kick, then kick+crash on Beat 1. Here’s my first practicing session…

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  • Good Rudiment Exercise: Triplets and 16ths

    Good Rudiment Exercise: Triplets and 16ths

    Just discovered this exercise and I want to document it so I dont forget. This is 2 beats of triplets and 2 beats of 16ths. Also, trying to accent the beginning of each triplet. It really messes with my mind when I have to do that at the same time as my left foot on…

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  • Bonham Triplets Part 2

    Bonham Triplets Part 2

    Going to try to post my practice session. Emphasis on try. It occurred to me that it would be really cool if I shared early practice sessions so that as the years go by I could see my improvements. Only problem is almost never do anything in years. I get bored with repetitious things and…

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  • Bonham Triplets

    Bonham Triplets

    I’m still a beginning drummer. And after taking a several year break from learning, I’m picking it up again. Tonight I practiced Bonham Triplets for the first time. It was very awkward. Came out pretty rough. I practiced with a metronome and got up to about 100bpm. After that it started breaking down. I did…

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  • Drum Therapy

    Drum Therapy

    Man, I am crashing out here. Something happened to me today and I don’t exactly know what pushed me over the edge. But I can see that I am overwhelming myself with political news. I’m absorbing too much negative crap. The internet is like a giant funnel that sucks up every piece of rage bait…

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