A different kind of listening

Instead of my usual CD listening driving to and from work today I've been in the grip of election fever and therefore tuned into Radio Five Live all day.

Drums:

I managed an hour of drum practice today. More work on the Drum Legacy DVD ideas. I'm worked on this by Singing a blues to myself (Blues on the Corner) whilst trading choruses. 12 bars time, 12 bars solo and so on. I also did about 10 minutes of free-play trading, attempting to link the new material into my existing vocabulary.

Piano:

20 Minutes Bach. The first 20 bars at crotchet = 40. I also sketched through the rest of the piece with the hands separately.

20 Minutes playing the Mintzer Etude over and over at crotchet = 40. I agree with my anonymous commentator - it is indeed tricky but I feel better about it today than I did yesterday so that must count for something.

10 Minutes Scales. A, E and B major. I'm a little tired today and made quite a few errors. Hopefully this will be better tomorrow. I think I should also move onto a new scale tomorrow.

10 Minutes reviewing the Reinecke and Biehl Grade 2 pieces at sensible tempos.

No composition today, I've done a little reading but I don't really want to reveal what I'm reading because it sounds a little too cosmic (!)

Its also good to know that at least one person is reading this blog. Somebody has left a couple of anonymous comments so I've no idea if it is somebody I know or if they've stumbled across my blog by accident. Either way... thanks for reading :)