Latest Stuff…
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Kick Drum Practice Pad Under the Desk
Without a doubt, this has to have been one of my finest ideas…. Over the last couple of days I have been talking about “getting reps in” on my non-dominant hand by just doing single strokes on a practice pad. It has helped already, even with just the few days I have been doing it.…
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Focused Practice
I saw a YouTube video a few days ago that has stayed with me. He spoke about focusing on what’s giving you the most trouble. For example, if there’s a difficult section of a song, stop practicing the whole song and only work on the tricky bit. It stuck with me because this was how…
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Sixteenth Kicks at 80 bpm and Routine Planning
Wanted to do some kick drum workouts to help build my stamina. I cranked it up to 80 bpm, a new top speed. I could barely hang in there, and it was a bit sloppy. I went at it until I was too fatigued. I checked the recording and was shocked that I only lasted…
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My Own Kick Drum Exercise
After doing a whole six and a half minutes of a kick drum exercise yesterday (whoa, I’m really getting up there!), I am suddenly able to adapt it and come up with my own version. So, instead of grinding out four sixteenths, I came up with a simple matrix of a bar of the first…
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10,000 Kicks Per Day
Last night I practiced the kick drum exercise I learned a few days ago. I did it for a whopping 6.5 minutes at 70 bpm. I say “whopping” because it’s more than I’ve ever done and it felt like a really long time. It felt like I did it for 20 minutes… I was surprised…
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Moved Peppers to Greenhouse
We are well into fall and have moved the pepper plants that I didn’t know were perennials to a greenhouse. With the temps rapidly cooling and night time lows in the 50’s F, I picked up this popup version. It’s kind of a neat little greenhouse and fairly inexpensive. I don’t know what to expect…
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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
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
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
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…