Attempting 30 minutes of dbl bass and 30 minutes of Johnny Rabb free-hand technique every day for all of 2010.

Daily sprint timings on the drum-o-meter and hopefully I'll find a graphing tool to show progress and digression.

Daily record of drill tempos through "Stick Control" and "Syncopation"

Three times per week heavy physical therapy work for ball of foot, and for ankle-knee-hip stability.

Weight lifting and rice bucket work in a self-made Tom House system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_House with help from pro-pitcher Adam Eaton.

4 days a week of core work too.

Test week's Times and BPMs (hits per minute which are nefariously called Beats Per Minute)

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Weds Dec 30

Worked on a timeline in Visio to figure out all the crazy things I've done in the last 5 years. 

1/2 hour:      Rabb
10 minutes:  Dbl bass  (thought I'd practice with my feet on the floor at a party I went to last night.  But it was a no shoes situation, and the conversations were unexpectedly fantastic.  I'll blog someday about why drumming with bare feet doesn't work for me.)

No exercize. 

RESULTS:
Rabb is feeling gentler on my hands and more automatic.  Doing accellerandos now.  But when I try to put it into a fill or solo I pulverize my fingers with stick shock from the rim.  So, it's not ready for me to use in a sentence, yet!  But Hey, I have time.  2010 doesn't start for another day.  Didn't time anything.  Drum-O-Meter is not trackable so far with USPS.  I can count how many hits without it, but I didn't try yesterday. 

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