{"id":765,"date":"2025-11-02T14:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2025-11-02T14:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:46:26","slug":"the-new-ultra-minimal-drum-practice-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/the-new-ultra-minimal-drum-practice-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"The NEW Ultra-Minimal Drum Practice Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The more I practice speed and rudiments, I&#8217;ve come to realize it&#8217;s my left (non-dominant) hand that&#8217;s really holding things up.  So I started <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=738&amp;action=edit\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=738&amp;action=edit\">focusing on my left hand<\/a> a few days ago.  It has helped.  My non-dominant hand suddenly feels more coordinated than before.  But my finger tips still lack the strength, speed, agility to snap the rebound.  I&#8217;m going to focus even more on just my finger tips.  I hold the stick inverted and squeeze with my fingers  as the stick taps my forearms.  I also hold the stick normally, but horizontally, with the tip pointing behind me and repeatedly work my fingers.  Doing the motion to train my fingers what it needs to do.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are videos on YouTube describing these two positions but I dont feel like finding and linking them.  I know nobody is going to be reading this looking for help with drumming.  This is for my own progress logging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now I just walk around the house fidgeting with a single stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I present to you, the new ultra-ultra minimal drum practice kit&#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\/11\/UltraminimalDrumPracticeKit-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/UltraminimalDrumPracticeKit-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/UltraminimalDrumPracticeKit-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/UltraminimalDrumPracticeKit-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/UltraminimalDrumPracticeKit-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/UltraminimalDrumPracticeKit-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/UltraminimalDrumPracticeKit-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I practice speed and rudiments, I&#8217;ve come to realize it&#8217;s my left (non-dominant) hand that&#8217;s really holding things up. So I started focusing on my left hand a few days ago. It has helped. My non-dominant hand suddenly feels more coordinated than before. But my finger tips still lack the strength, speed, agility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767,"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-765","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\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}