Four days since my last update…four days of a LOT of one thing: practicing drums.
It’s a revolution..with two causes:
1.Since percussion camp, I’ve been super-inspired to work work work on my skills.
2. I was lucky enough on Friday to get a “master class” from Chris Lacinak, an awesome New Orleans drummer. He taught me some things about technique, style and feel, practicing, and many other things.
So Chris’s practice ideas were to take a book your are working out of, and as you progress you review…TONS. EVERY TIME. So I’m almost to the end of a snare solo book, and now every time I want to practice the last solo or whatever, I go back and play through the entire book till that point. ohhhhhhh sounds boring I know. But Chris says in a month, I’ll have that book memorized (haha), and be able to play it all perfectly. Plus, I’m really excersizing my “chops.”
But yeah, other than drums the past few days, Amy has returned from Wisconsin. So we hung out all yesterday afternoon which was really great, since we hadn’t really talked since eh like almost two weeks.
I also wrote another drum cadence yesterday…and may make a habit of writing one everyday, just because that may help my creativity flow, and because I’m super bored. I’m also wanting to make a cool snare solo video of me playing on a mirror in my house. I decided it would look totally awesome. I’ll post it in the next few days.
Cole has also assigned me to administer to his forums for the next few weeks, so (unless you were brought to my site from his forums) you really need to chech out “Argumentative Demise”.
Thanks for reading! Gimme a comment as usual if you want.