Wed. August 23rd

Today practicing was a lot of fun. I began by warming up for ten minutes (approx.) by working on my bass drum technique, mostly in the area of singles. Of all my areas of technique, I really think this is one of my weakest, so i'm really trying to build some good muscle on my calfs, and teach those muscles good technique. After warm up I spent about 15 minutes working on some jazz excersises while keeping the standard jazz pattern on my ride, and doing some practice rhythms with my left hand while keeping 2 and 4 with my hi-hat foot. Then i began doing the same patterns as with my left hand now with my bass drum foot, followed by switching off the same pattern from hand to foot to hand, and so on. After word I just played some heat, and worked on my singles around the kit - I noticed that my left hand gets a little crazy when i turn to my floor tom, so i began working on my technique around the kit some, and will continue to work on that until i clean it up. After all this, i played some more heat, and then called it a day.