Wednesday 25th

20 Minutes running through all of the Jazz Grade 1 & 2 scales. My hands are starting to remember what to do!

20 Minutes playing Barrelhouse Blues from 60-72 bpm.

20 Minutes running Fly Me to the Moon from 120-144bpm and then sketching through a third Jazz Grade 3 piece - Huw Warren's Swing Fun at a slow 60pm.

I then spent three hours in a rehearsal room with my friend John swapping ideas and marvelling at his expensive new kit. It was supposed to be two hours but we were having too much fun so we stayed for an extra hour! What with all the talking and set-up time we probably only got about 90 minutes drumming done but I really enjoyed it and have come away with a few new ideas to work on... I'll have to do this again sometime.

I also dug my Jazz Composition: Theory and Practice book out of storage so I intend to brush up on that - particularly next week when I'm working away and won't have my keyboard.