Monday, February 1, 2010
Feb 1, '10 Monday
Been struggling with irregular heartbeat. Not keeping up with exercize or practice. Overload city. Got some testing and meds, starting to improve, but running on about 4 of my 8 cylinders.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Jan 29 2009 Monday
40 Total Minutes: 40
2 Rabb
35 Dbl bd with ankle weights
3 " " " without ankle weights
TIMES:
RABB
640 Right
528 Left
0 Interlaced
8 year old home from school with fever, cough, ear infection
2 Rabb
35 Dbl bd with ankle weights
3 " " " without ankle weights
TIMES:
RABB
640 Right
528 Left
0 Interlaced
8 year old home from school with fever, cough, ear infection
Saturday, January 23, 2010
1 20 05, Weds (Entry out of chronological order)
2 hours of playing with Radke
Played badly because of getting my workouts out of the Tom House order.
Played badly because of getting my workouts out of the Tom House order.
Jan 23 10 Saturday
Total drumming hours: 6 (all during lessons)
But!!! During one of the lessons a student request that I show how many hits I could do in a minute on the dbl bass. I hit 705. That's all my speed work for today.
Lot's of musicality. And went to a fantastic dance recital/fund raiser tonight. It have me a lot of new ideas. Also, may have begun an apprentice mentor relationship with a 9th grader who has at least 4 hours per day to practice. This could be the start of something great for him. Our goal is to prepare him for a full ride scholarship to Berkelee.
But!!! During one of the lessons a student request that I show how many hits I could do in a minute on the dbl bass. I hit 705. That's all my speed work for today.
Lot's of musicality. And went to a fantastic dance recital/fund raiser tonight. It have me a lot of new ideas. Also, may have begun an apprentice mentor relationship with a 9th grader who has at least 4 hours per day to practice. This could be the start of something great for him. Our goal is to prepare him for a full ride scholarship to Berkelee.
Jan 22, '10 Friday
Really missing practicing with musicality as the objective. I hope this pays off musically by the end of the year, but hopefully a lot sooner. My students are getting interested in DeathClock. The drummer has got to be playing his bass drums at around 900 hits per minute through entire songs. I'm hovering around 700 in one minute and I"m like, "Whew, made it!" I'm just wondering if I could ever keep 700 going for 2 minutes? He's got to weigh 300 plus pounds. A very inspiring guy, and obviously a technical wonder. There is no way he's just using brute strength and cardio fitness. Looks like it's time to get his DVD. His name is Gene Hoglan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSGkxNpP8aU
1 hour 30 minutes plus practice time
2 hours playing with students
30 min Rabb
30 min BD
30 min standard singles doubles parradiddles, etc
RABB:
672 Right
496 Left
448 Interlaced
DBL BD
700 singles
707 doubles
1 hour 30 minutes plus practice time
2 hours playing with students
30 min Rabb
30 min BD
30 min standard singles doubles parradiddles, etc
RABB:
672 Right
496 Left
448 Interlaced
DBL BD
700 singles
707 doubles
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Jan 21, 05 Thursday
30 dbl bass
10 Rabb
8:45 Appointment with school principle to follow up on last week's action items for 6 yr old
9:50 Breakfast
10:00 Worked on moving stopwatch animation. Got second hand clicking to each new second through 60 seconds
12:00 Dr appt 6 yr old
1:08 StopWatch Animation of second hand
2:00 StopWatch continued
After school THURSDAY:
3:00 Pickup Kids
3:15 Boys Acting Coach canceled. Did homework with both boys, while also doing lots of exersize and gym stuff = 5 min homework 5 min gym
4:15 Teach Acting Coach a Drum Lesson cancelled. Did homework.
5:15 Octavio to French Race home Ned practice.
6:30 Pick up Octavio from French
6:45 Pick up Stephanie
7:00 Dinner
7:30 Octavio spelling test and homework
8:30 Reading, Swinging, Jumping, playing.
9:00 Try to get them to sleep OOOOooooooof.
10 Rabb
8:45 Appointment with school principle to follow up on last week's action items for 6 yr old
9:50 Breakfast
10:00 Worked on moving stopwatch animation. Got second hand clicking to each new second through 60 seconds
12:00 Dr appt 6 yr old
1:08 StopWatch Animation of second hand
2:00 StopWatch continued
After school THURSDAY:
3:00 Pickup Kids
3:15 Boys Acting Coach canceled. Did homework with both boys, while also doing lots of exersize and gym stuff = 5 min homework 5 min gym
4:15 Teach Acting Coach a Drum Lesson cancelled. Did homework.
5:15 Octavio to French Race home Ned practice.
6:30 Pick up Octavio from French
6:45 Pick up Stephanie
7:00 Dinner
7:30 Octavio spelling test and homework
8:30 Reading, Swinging, Jumping, playing.
9:00 Try to get them to sleep OOOOooooooof.
Jan 20 '10 Weds
Total drumming: 2 hour rehearsal 18 piece big band.
Exersize:
Leg joint stability
Tom House style 3lb dumbell 'strength in the range of motion" work
Non drumming:
Punchlist for second iteration of StopWatch
Took son(s) to Dr, Tap Dance, Gym, and got one rolling on homework, and met with a teacher
So, Last Weds I played amazingly with the Fred Radke band. Tonight, however, I did not. As I reviewed my workout schedule, it was at least partially to blame. I'd done my heavy day yesterday, (because I'd fallen almost 2 weeks behind). I'm supposed to do it the day after the rehearsal (game). And, today I did my Tom House-style range of motion workout. I'm not supposed to do that till next Monday. And my body did not want to play drums tonight. Not at all. Unfortunately, instead of holding back and just phoning it in to preserve my joints, etc, I gave too much, so my hands are feeling pretty lousy tonight. They felt lousy during the rehearsal too. Double bass stuff barely worked in rehearsal. With all these solos, I think I'm going to have to modify the set I use there so it gives more consistent feedback. So sad, too bad. I'm back at it tomorrow!
Exersize:
Leg joint stability
Tom House style 3lb dumbell 'strength in the range of motion" work
Non drumming:
Punchlist for second iteration of StopWatch
Took son(s) to Dr, Tap Dance, Gym, and got one rolling on homework, and met with a teacher
So, Last Weds I played amazingly with the Fred Radke band. Tonight, however, I did not. As I reviewed my workout schedule, it was at least partially to blame. I'd done my heavy day yesterday, (because I'd fallen almost 2 weeks behind). I'm supposed to do it the day after the rehearsal (game). And, today I did my Tom House-style range of motion workout. I'm not supposed to do that till next Monday. And my body did not want to play drums tonight. Not at all. Unfortunately, instead of holding back and just phoning it in to preserve my joints, etc, I gave too much, so my hands are feeling pretty lousy tonight. They felt lousy during the rehearsal too. Double bass stuff barely worked in rehearsal. With all these solos, I think I'm going to have to modify the set I use there so it gives more consistent feedback. So sad, too bad. I'm back at it tomorrow!
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