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Self Improvement
A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
Rules and guidelines:
- Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.
- Use content warnings when discussing difficult subjects.
- Do not make medical decisions solely because of a discussion you have had with any person here (e.g. whether to take or not take medications; diagnoses; etc.) as we do not vet people. All medical problems should be discussed with a real-life medical professional.
- Do not post harmful advice here. If this is seen, then please report it and we shall remove it. If you are unsure about whether it's precisely harmful advice or not but feel uneasy about it, please report it anyway.
- Do not insult other users and their lifestyles or their habits (unless they ask, I suppose). This is a place for self-improvement. Critique and discussion about a course of action is encouraged over shit-flinging. Don't talk down to people.
Press Rolls:
[ ] 3 Stroke 150 2x5 mins
[ ] 4 Stroke 70 2x5 mins. Use 3 for reference.
Traditional Grip:
[ ] RLRRLL starting on upbeat, triplets. 70bpm 10 mins
[ ] Left Hand index bounce 70bpm
[ ] Left hand thumb with index finger bounce. 80bpm
Left Foot technique:
[ ] Bounce knee on pedal 65 bpm
[ ] ankle tech 70bpm
[ ] Heel toe 70 bpm
[ ] Sit high, heel down, see knees move. Knee is at wide angle 130ish degrees. 70bom
Groove Studies:
[ ] Rhythm Scale Benny Greb App 10 min x2 40BPM.
[ ] Gap Click 16th Note Grid, creative 70
[ ] Gap Click KKRRKK swing @160 bpm
[ ] Gap click KKRRKK starting on +1 120
[ ] Gap Click 32nd note funk @70
Listening/Ride Cymbal: Paul Chambers: "No Blues", "Unit 7" "Four on Six" from Wes Montgomery and Wynton Kelly "Smokin' at the Halfnote"
[ ] Listen to Recordings, play with recordings, take notes.
Songs to Learn:
[ ] Skylark
[ ] Fee Fi Fo Fum
[ ] East of the Sun, West of the Moon
[ ] Darn that Dream
[ ] Moonlight in Vermont
[ ] Polkadots and Moonbeams
Carmen McRae's version of Skylark is amazing (the entire birds of a feather album is, too).