Hi comrades and welcome to the first improvement megathread of February!

I hope everybody had a great January and is ready to continue making progress and kicking ass 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.
  • What would you like to do next week?
  • What aspect of life would you like to improve?
  • 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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  • Mokey [none/use name]
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    9 months ago
    mokey jam session

    Played three songs, theyre really complimenting my feel and playing a lot less in my hand/feet got me compliments too. 🥹🥹🥹

    Bye Bye Blackbird. Felt boring, should have led the band more.

    Sandu. Led the band this time felt great. I've been focusing on forward momentum with my ride cymbals and I realized my hands and feet don't match, so I made that change (phrasing to the next note rather than grouping by beats) and felt that it was a lot less awkward. One good thing about all my left footwork is that I can really play the hihat. I can stomp the shit out of it on 2+4 but still back off and make pretty splashes.

    You or Nothing. Felt bad at first, used more arm for the 2+4 and it made everything groove way harder. I dont practice fast so this is a good note for the future. Faster song so I could throw down my chops, people said I played fantastically. Like wtf, people really like me there. I listened back to the recording and I feel like my trading fours were good but not as clean as I'd like. Made use of a lot of the philly joe jones vocab that i know.

    Talked to the house drummer, hes an older guy and it seems like hes going through some shit right now. It's heartbreaking, I hate the US, why cant we just take care of people.

    The bassist is in the local symphony. He has the best life I'm jealous.