{"id":715,"date":"2025-10-24T14:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:51:07","slug":"10000-kicks-per-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/10000-kicks-per-day\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Kicks Per Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night I practiced the <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/kick-drum-exercise\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/kick-drum-exercise\/\">kick drum exercise I learned a few days ago<\/a>.  I did it for a whopping 6.5 minutes at 70 bpm.  I say &#8220;whopping&#8221; because it&#8217;s more than I&#8217;ve ever done and it felt like a <em>really<\/em> long time.  It felt like I did it for 20 minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PracticeLog10-2025.10.23-KickExercises-Project.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was surprised I could keep it up that long without serious degradation in accuracy like the first time I did the exercise, which was only a few days ago. When it ended I thought, &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m getting my 10,000 steps in&#8221;. Then it occurred to me that since I played to a metronome, we actually can calculate the total number of kicks.  I only kicked on beats 1 and 3, that&#8217;s half of the bpm as &#8220;kicked beats per minute&#8221;. Times 4 kicks per beat(16ths), times 6.5 minutes we get:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>35 * 4 kpm * 6.5 minutes = 910 kicks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does seem conceivable that I could reach 10,000 in a day. Perhaps soon.  It&#8217;s a worthy goal&#8230;<\/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\/kickpedal-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kickpedal-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kickpedal-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kickpedal-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kickpedal-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kickpedal-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kickpedal-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;whopping&#8221; because it&#8217;s more than I&#8217;ve ever done and it felt like a really long time. It felt like I did it for 20 minutes&#8230; I was surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":718,"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-715","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\/715","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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}