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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
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
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
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
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
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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Chili Peppers are Perennials
Man, I am so pumped. I just learned that chili peppers can live all year long ( if they don’t freeze ). Growing hot peppers has become my absolute favorite thing about gardening. I never seem to know what to do with other vegetables when they ripen. It seems weird to me. Like, here’s a…
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Took a Picture of an Owl at Night
This here bad photo is my first ever capture of an owl. I was out walking my dog who(who!) scared it off unfortunately, so I didn’t get an better shots. I saw it fly over us earlier, and then was surprised to see it sitting on top of a soccer goal post as we were…
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Blog Posts Instead of Morning Pages?
I’m a big fan of Julia Cameron’s Artist’s Way method of writing for 20 minutes first thing in the morning. I love it so much I just crossed 1.5 million words. I do break the rule though and write on my computer instead pen and paper. Are there really rules in life when it’s for…
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On Quitting Coffee
I’m in the process of quitting coffee. Forever? Probably not. I love quitting coffee apparently. I’ve done it many times. Dozens perhaps. Coffee has me. An addiction. And I hate it. I hate that. I want it to go away forever. I do want to quit. But why? It just doesn’t feel right. I prefer…