Category: Drumming

Just hit 20 hours of music practice since I committed to at least one hour of practice per day. So, 20 days ago. Actually less because I couple of days I practiced more (moar!) than 1 hour. The vast majority of the practice time as been spent on just left hand single strokes. I’m up…

Today I practiced two hours of music. That’s a first! And because most of it was left hand finger technique. I logged 20,000 strokes today, also a first. And since I did so many, that pushed me over the 100,000 milestone. When I first started doing this tracking nonsense, at the back of my mind…

I do my practice pad work using marching sticks. Big huge heavy things. I like them a lot. They’re easy to hold and rebound easy on the practice pads. But I’ve been asking myself are these the right sticks to be practicing my strokes with? After doing some reading online, I still don’t know the…

Today I hit 12,000 strokes on just my left hand. A personal best. Single strokes using the finger technique. It’s hard to even imagine such numbers. But it just takes a little over an hour to do. I cant help feeling though that at these size numbers, my left hand should be better/stronger/faster than it…

Hit my first major milestone while tracking metrics during music practice. Using the Clap Counter app, I’ve logged 50,000 single strokes of my left hand. This is my non-dominant hand and is what holds me back the most. A lot of my practice is dedicated to just single strokes on my left hand. I’m taking…

I started focusing on my left hand 3.5 weeks ago. Every day I spend some time with just the left hand on the practice pad. I’m trying to get my fingers able to pull down the rebound instead of my wrist. I can tell it’s doing much better than my first day. There’s some strength…

I’ve heard When the Levee Breaks many times, of course. But today I heard it for the first time since I started to learn drumming. I immediately noticed the kicks were not on-beat and so I thought, hey I should learn this. It didn’t take long to work out but was still fun to learn.…

Last night I scored a Pearl piccolo snare off FB Marketplace for $120. Pretty pumped about that. I see people playing break beats on YouTube and I immediately think: I want to do that! But.. I’m far from being able to, though I have the snare for it now. Still, the piccolo will make this…

Halfway through today’s hour long practice I started daydreaming and remembered I have an app on my phone (Clap Counter) to track clap sounds that can be used to count strokes on a practice pad. In the time remaining I logged 2002 strokes! I think it’s more fun to track number of strokes than number…

I like to track things. And another idea flew into my funnel. Yesterday I decided to set a timer to incentivize practicing for an hour a day. And now I asked myself, how many hours do I want to do? The 10,000 hours thing is way, way beyond what I need to feel accomplished. I…