Latest Stuff…
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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
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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…