Tuesday 24th

I managed just over two hours of drum kit time today, mainly working on ideas inspired by some of the stuff I heard Sebastiaan De Krom play last Thursday with Steve Grossman.

I also spent about 40 minutes working on some of the material in Gary Chaffee's Technique Patterns book. I'm using it with one of my students at the moment and its been a few years since I last played through it. I'd forgotten how much fun it is and how good it makes my hands feel.

Piano:

20 Minutes Barrelhouse Blues at 60bpm. This is coming together fairly well. Almost ready to start upping the tempo.

20 Minutes Fly Me to the Moon 120-144 bpm then lots of times at 144.