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Weekend schedule of events… PT/exercise 30 minute core workout; 30 minutes on bike trainer (haven’t taken it off yet, though it is […]

Since my routine now requires as much PT as actual practice, I will be keeping track of both aspects here. (Feel free […]

I’ve had to take some time off these past two weeks to recover from a pretty nasty bit of tendonitis in my […]

Warmup – worked stick control, roll, rudiment exercises on pad; sightread Les Parks’ rudimental snare solos Rip Tide Technique – double-stop 8th-note […]

Warmup – worked through several Morello-style variations on paradiddle permutation on the drum pad; various stick control exercises Sightread – rudimental snare […]

Surface Drifts Warmup/technique – SI exercises; SA exercises = P4-M2 leading with both inside and outside mallets, up and down keyboard; DV […]

Sightread 2- mallet music.   Surface Drifts Mm. 93-end as block chords and as DV rolls (used as warmup) 5s – worked […]

Surface Drifts Technique/warmup – SI/DV warmups; interval changing exercises m2-octave; chromatic scale exercises, focus on mallet combinations 1/3, 2/4, 2/3 for building […]

So, I had to take a few days off to recover from snow day shoveling inflammation in both my wrists and elbows. […]

Drumset Warmup/technique – Morello-style stick control variations with triplets, 16ths, 5s, 6s, 7s, 32nd, flams, etc.; paradiddle variations in feet (8ths) with […]

Rip Tide Warmup/technique – chromatic exercises (scales, m3/M3) with unison 8ths at 1/4 note = 160bpm; octaves as alternating 16ths at 1/4 […]

Drumset Warmup/technique – worked on several paradiddle variations from the drumset book I am reviewing; worked through several pages of Soph’s Musical […]

Surface Drifts Warmup/technique – DV exercises (m3/M3, different in each hand, moving in opposite directions); SI exercises – 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, 2/4 […]

Drumset Stick control warmup with samba in double bass (right foot on down beat, left foot on pickup; and the opposite); exercise […]

Since I spent so much in studio, in performance and working with project collaborators these last few days, I didn’t get any […]

I was really busy over the weekend with orchestra rehearsals and performance, a recording session and a day of workshopping initial ideas […]

So, I didn’t have much time to practice today (just sat at the kit with a pad for about 30 minutes before […]

It is a windy 60 degrees out today. I opened the window in my practice room so I can accompany the wind. […]

Drumset Remembering my goals from yesterday, I am intentionally NOT working out of any books…except, of course, my warmup with stick control […]

Drumset Stick control in hands with samba in BD/HH; stick control in feet with alternating hands in rhythmic unison (16ths) at 1/4 […]