{"id":688,"date":"2025-10-21T03:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:01:17","slug":"second-attempt-basic-punk-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/21\/second-attempt-basic-punk-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Attempt: Basic Punk Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s me doing some more <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/first-attempt-basic-punk-beat\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/first-attempt-basic-punk-beat\/\">Basic Punk Beat<\/a>, but I&#8217;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&#8217;m not sure what I should be doing, but heal down is harder.  So, since I&#8217;m a &#8220;if you want to do it the hard way&#8221; kinda guy&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PracticeLog9-2025.10.20-BasicPunkBeat125bpm.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I play heal down the kicks are weak sauce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried doing a double on &#8220;3-and&#8221; for some extra spice but it was a spectacular fail. I could not do it fast at all. It because obvious I have a lot of work to do in order to learn how to play doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to practice today, had a long day at the office. But I forced myself.  If nothing else, if my brain doesn&#8217;t want to do anything else, I can always practice this beat.  I got tired quick so it&#8217;s probably a good one for building stamina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today was also the first time I needed to reference my own blog too. I forgot how many bpm I practiced last time and I was able to look that up and even listen to it. That was kinda neato benito.  Seems like this is working out for tracking my progress.  Dig it, man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DrummerGirl-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DrummerGirl-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DrummerGirl-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DrummerGirl-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DrummerGirl-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DrummerGirl-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DrummerGirl-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s me doing some more Basic Punk Beat, but I&#8217;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&#8217;m not sure what I should be doing, but heal down is harder. So, since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drumming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}