Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of April! There are nine more days left until the end of the month, which is plenty of time to get stuff done and make some progress.
As usual, some discussion ideas:
- Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
- Do you have any goals for next week?
- 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?
Poster caption: Glory to our beloved motherland!
Good luck with your goals 
roll call:
@SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net
If anybody else wants to be added to the roll call, just let me know
actually i was about to ask to be taken off the list. "self improvement" at this point is just trying to figure out being trans and i post all those thoughts in the trans mega
That's a great goal, I would also like to read more books. There are a bunch of books I want to read but it's really hard for me to find the time. I'm trying to prioritize good habits like getting enough sleep, cooking healthy meals, running etc, so I have very little free time. But I would like to carve out at least 20 minutes a day for reading, that would be awesome
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
Carmen McRae's version of Skylark is amazing (the entire birds of a feather album is, too).
This week I went running on Tuesday and wanted to go again on Fri/Sat but my lower back started to hurt really bad so I couldn't go. My back is fucked up in general and I'm fairly sure that I have anterior pelvic tilt so I want to do some exercises to fix that. Next week is gonna be fairly busy so I won't be able to go running on two days but I'll try to go at least once.
