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Technique
Ankle Technique, I can do the ankle technique with my left foot from 210 down to 130BPM. I might have to spend extra time getting 100-120. The technique changes at that tempo and becomes very closed. After I get this down I'm going to move away from feet technique and focus more on learning songs, listening and transcriptions. I do about 15 mins a day on this.
French Grip Left Hand Stone Killers on a Moongel Pad. Just trying to get my hands stronger and more resilient. 75BPM for 10 mins.
Trad Grip Left Hand Stone Killers on a Moongel Pad. 75 BPM for two sets of 2.5 mins. The wrist rotation motion is not meant to go fast clearly but I need to build the muscles up more.
Brush Technique
I said I was going to work on this for awhile now and i'm finally getting to it, my teacher showed me his system and I'm very pleased with it. One thing i noticed is that in your left hand, you obviously have to comp with it while still keeping the circle going and the goal should be: extremely smooth circle and as little gap between the slap comping sound and the continuous swishing motion. I spend about 20 minutes on this a day.
Microtiming
So there's macro time which is keeping big portions of time consistent and then there's microtime which is keeping your subdivisions consistent, I've never really worked on it and it shows. god, there's so much to work on.
Click on quarter notes, no swing beat, play directly on the beat I do 6 sets of 2.5 mins. Comp on snare drum on beat 3, + of 3, ah of 3, 4, so on. 80 BPM.
Click on middle triplet Just play ideas over it and try to flow over it. 100BPM 10 mins
Click on last triplet Play ideas over it, try to flow over it. Doing a lot of KKLLKKLLKKLL and LKLLKLKKLKLL 130BPM 10 mins.
Click on upbeat sixteenth notes 140 BPM. Playing grooves and fills and trying to keep it all in the pocket. I felt like keeping sixteenth notes on hihat felt good so I'm working on just doing 8th notes on the hi hat now.
Transcription
Roy Haynes Transcription
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1SaofDEVrk
20 mins a day.
Play with recordings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4m3yiOAe58
Playing with tihs lately, mostly playing just quarter notes and filling in occasionally with the skip beat. Trying to get my default playing style to focus on quarter notes. Atleast for now. 20 minutes or so a day.
i hate being fuckign sick, i want to go out and play
I have a gig in a few weeks, need to learn a bunch of tunes. Heres what Im learning this week.
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