Foot Technique:

Ankle Technique Left foot 120 2.5 minute x 2

Ankle technique bossa pattern left foot 80 2.5 minute x2.

Trying to use big toe because my right foot uses it to get those really slow tempos (relatively for ankle tech) I want to be done with ankle tech so bad. I need to learn songs and a ton of them.

Brush Technique

Quincy Davis Sheet @ 120 BPM for 10 mins

Brush Permutations, play rhythm pyramid in right hand while playing circles in left without slowing down 10 m @50bpm

Play Brush pattern and jump into different patterns and comping patterns 10m @50bpm

Independence studies

Click on middle triplet, play (XXLLXK and XXKKXL) at 120BPM for 10m

Play in Three 100BPM, all permutations in left hands, try to play directly on the beat and dont move when u switch permutations

RRLRLLRL ideas 10m 100BPM

Transcription

Pot Luck Philly joe Jones trading fours

Listening

Miles Davis Four & More

Learn

Gloria’s Step (learn the last 8 bars)

Can you tell us about China?

Hi everyone, I took a break because I hurt my leg and then I had to leave town because of a family emergency.

I’m going to jump back into it tomorrow.

Hmmm i dont know if i can do 2 lbs in reality

Also I want to lose five pounds before my vacation in two months. I want to lose ten but I don’t think that’s realistic.

lessgo

What’d you play? What do you need to work on?

I had a gig yesterday, it went well except for Gloria’s Step. Gloria’s Step is a Bill Evans tune that is 20 bars and is one of those circular tunes that don’t have a big turnaround chord at the end of the form. It’s very hard, the pianist didnt play at all so we were lost the entire time.

Bill Evans Live in Tokyo - Gloria’s Step: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xptW6BKyYzk

I felt like my time was really good, focusing on the quarter note is really a game changer time wise I realized. I now realized I hate when I hear someone play the swing beat for 10 minutes straight, it’s not musical also the time can drift because of the subdivision not being consistent. There’s some heavy discipline to be able to play the traditional swing beat masterfully.

I’m getting some tendonitis in my heel and I’m sure it’s from all the bass drum comping exercises I’ve been doing.

Practice

Technique:

[ ] Left Foot Ankle 120-115BPM 10m. It’s amazing how it just clicks! My goal is to get the ankle technique down to 100BPM and then not do anymore footwork for awhile.

Brush Technique:

[ ] Quincy Davis Sheet 200BPM 10-20m. I have a comping sheet from the educator Quincy Davis that I’m working up to 220. I feel almost done with this. My big issue is that I can’t practice on a real snare drum, because one particularly whiny pro-israel neighbors and landlord, and I’m noticing that what I’m working on isn’t transferring 100% to a real snare drum. Very frustrating.

[ ] Ballad Permutations, big circles. 10 m 50BPM. Play big circle in left hand, play all rhythmic one note permutations in right hand.

[ ] Figure 8 Ballad Pattern into Big Circle Comping (The thing I’m doing above) . 10m 50BPM. Very challenging to get back into the pattern cleanly regardless of where you are in the beat.

Microtiming Studies:

[ ] Click on middle. (Comfortable ride pattern first) 110m First two triplets in hand, I get spun around as I go faster.

Playing in Three

[ ] Play in three. 80BPM. 10m. All permutations from sheet.

Rudiments between bass drum and left hand

[ ] KKLKLLKL 80BPM. 10m Start the pattern off the upbeat.

Transcription:

[ ] Transcribe more Roy Haynes.

Listening:

[ ] Gloria’s Step

[ ] Miles Davis - Milestones

Creative:

[ ] Play phrases on 4 and + of 4.

Deep Tune Learning:

[ ] Blue in Green

https://youtube.com/watch?v=r_aLRah4Y-4&t=698s

[ ] Gloria’s Step

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xptW6BKyYzk

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lets go, i want to watch the euro too.

i love world cup but i never watch anything else. seems like euro and womens world cup are def the other tournaments to watch

Ankle Technique

Ankle Technique BPM 125 -> 110. 10 mins.

Brush Technique

Quincy Davis Sheet Get up to 220 BPM. 10-20 mins

Ballad Brush playing

Big Circles in left hand, comp with right hand 10-20 Mins.

Brush Pattern 1

Brush Pattern 2

Comping Technique

KKLKLLKL 120BPM

KKLLKK with metronome in middle beat 110 BPM.

Play in three, practice all snare drum one note permutations 80BPM

Transcription

Roy Haynes transcription Keep working ideas.

Phrasing

Work on endings phrases on 4 and + of 4 with recordings

Tunes to learn

Finish ESP

Gloria’s Step

Blue In Green

Make the booty big

Lets go just keep getting back up

Squats?

Technique

Ankle Technique 2.5 x 4 @ 95,100,135,140 BPM.

French Grip Left Hand Stonekillers on Non-Rebound Surface. 2.5x4 85,90 BPM.

Trad Grip Left Hand Stonekillers on Non-Rebound Surface 2.5x2 85,90 BPM. Realized that Trad grips limitation is that it can’t play big, fast and loud like german or american. Not for long anyway.

Brush Technique

Technique Sheet 20 mins.

Microtiming Studies

Click on Downbeat, play directly on beat. 80BPM. Play all the single note permutations across triplet grid.

Click on Middle beat of triplet 110-120BPM. Play KKLLKK while maintaining swing beat. play it off the upbeat too.

Play in three 80 BPM. Play the snare drum on all permutations. This will begin the process of learning how to play in three, no more being afraid of it.

Play swing beat with KKLK LLKL KKLK under it 80BPM, also play it off the upbeat and also play RRLR LLRL RRLR as a solo/fill idea.

Transcription

Roy Haynes transcription, take ideas and play with I dont know what to do with this i’m bored with it.

Listening

Play with recordings

Listen to Milestones album

Learn Tunes

Upper Manhattan Medical Group Learn the bridge.

ESP Learn the B? section.

Mokey Drum:

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.

[ ] Upper Manhattan Medical Group [ ] ESP [ ] Jump Monk [ ] Black Narcissus [ ] Blue in Green [ ] Impressions

I’m still practicing, just been to lazy to do write ups.

It’s funny that people do these 100 day practice challenges and it’s just normal for me to practice 2-3 hours everyday.

currently working on brushes, doing stone killers on a moon gel practice pad, microtime exercises and transcribing some roy haynes

Traditional Grip: Not trying to spend much time here, I have so much technique I need to de-emphasize working on it.

• Moeller technique, super slow, choreographed movements. 80BPM, each click indicates a motion. Rest position. Arm up, forearm out- stick on head. Drop arm hard but not stupidly back to rest position. 10 mins.

• Trad grip, middle finger exercise 65BPM. Not sure how people play faster single strokes on traditional grip yet. 5 mins.

Foot Technique: I’m getting close I can feel it.

• Bounce Knee on Pedal/Leg Motion 65-75BPM. 7.5 mins.

• Ankle Technique 75-65BPM 7.5mins

• Heel Toe left foot, 80BPM. 5 mins.

Groove Studies:

• Rhythmic Scale using Benny Greb app, focus down sixteenth notes. Try to get to sextuplets and 32nds. 40 BPM. 20 mins.

• Benny Greb App. Play ideas and keep it in time. Right now it’s RLLK and RLKK. RLKKRLLK. 70BPM 10 mins.

• Benny greb app. Swing orchestrating paradiddles between left hand and right foot. 80BPM.

• Benny greb app. 32nd notes funk. 1xxx (+xxx) 2. Explore all bass drum permutations on the 2nd half of beat one while only moving the the first half after going through everything in the second group. 80bpm 10mins

• Benny greb app. 32nd notes funk. Samething but just one bass drum note moving through all the possible 32nd note subdivisons. 80 bpm. 10 mins.

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

Arm technique:

[v] Three bounce stroke in sixteenth note grid to four bounces - 110bpm.

[v] 4 bounce 32nds to 3 bounce sextuplets 65bpm

• I’m trying to not crush or force anything, I think I overworked my left hand last night.

[v] Quad strokes, 32nd note grid. 60bpm

[v] Double Stroke roll as triplets starting on down and upbeats. 210bpm.

[v] Traditional Grip, Left Hand Thumb sixteenth notes. 75BPM.

-Got some new information I might need to reset back down to 50BPM.

[v] Traditional Grip, Left Hand Wrist Rotation. 75BPM.

-90BPM is the upper limit for this motion it seems like.

Foot technique:

[v] Left foot, bounce knee generated from heel motion. 5 mins, all subdivision 80BPM

• This is turning out to be very useful in my left foot technique.

[v] Ankle Technique 8th @ 140

-Trying to go slower and master rebound.

[v] Heel toe 70

• This seems like it’ll be useful to my goal, I cannot wait to put down this stuff. I want to work on brushes. 🥺

[v] Pick up foot, drop as loose as possible. 100 BPM. Do Quarter notes, dotted eigth quarter note, quarter note triplets and eighth notes.

• Make there is a heavy dead feeling when dropping foot.

Groove Studies:

[v] Rhythmic Scale Benny Greb Gap Click App 40 20

• I want to feel 90% there then work on faster tempos 70-100.

[v] Gap Click 16th Note Grid, creative 60

[v] Gap Click swing ideas, @120-160 bpm

• Going to review paradiddle ideas after doubles. I really want to look at this idea KLKKLL but the first kick is on the upbeat.

[v] Gap Click 16th note funk @70

• Been playing with this sticking RLLKRLLK.

• I want to go through a bunch of bass 32nd note permutations. Get my Mark Guiliana on.

Listening:

[v] Listen to Recordings, play with recordings, take notes.

• Miles Davis All of You
• Wynton Kelly Kelly at Midnite
• Miles Davis Live Blackhawk

One punch man method