Hello comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of June! It's the beginning of the month, great time to set your goals and priorities for this month.

As usual, some discussion ideas:

  • Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
  • How was your May?
  • Do you have any goals or priorities for June?
  • Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
  • If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
  • Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?

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Good luck with your goals! yuri

  • Mokey [none/use name]
    ·
    1 month ago

    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.

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