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. 

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
 

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.

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. 

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

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. 

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!

Jan 19, 2010 Tues Exersizes

30 back extensions while holding a 25lb disk.
150 crunches on execise and bolsu balls
80 one footed calf raisers on wobbly disk (40) and balance board (40)
40 one footed rotations on the wobbly board

Started with 5 pound dumbells doing curls, tricept extensions, rows, shoulder presses, wings, and shrugs, plus bench chest work starting with butterflies until the weight got too heavy, then switching to pressess progressively.  If your going to lift heavy and you want zero pain and tightness after, you need to warn your body it is coming.  Here's how:

20 x 5lbs of each exercise above
16 x 7.5lbs " " " "

12 x 10lbs

8 x 12.5 lbs

6 x 15 lbs

4 x 17.5 lbs

2 x 20 lbs

2 x 22.5 lbs

2 x 25 lbs

2 x 27.5 lbs

2 x 30 lbs

2 x 32.5 lbs

35 is my max. This is what all the previous lifts are all about: Explaining to my body that it's got to lift some weight that's really heavy for it. It's the ultimate warm up. Here are my failures:

AT 35 pounds max:
8 curls

6 rows,

8 shoulder Presses (the last one was hilarious, it felt like it took a full minute)

17 bench presses. It was a joke. Two months ago I could only to 8. But I'm resisting adding more weight till April. I'm letting my tendons, tendons sheaths, and joints adjust. Not that a joint can, but it makes me feel better to lie to myself about it.

I intend to re-evaluate my top weight in March, maybe add 2.5 lbs.  Or maybe just add to bench press.  I know better what to do in March. 

8 30lb assisted dips (replaced tricept extensions after 10lbs and incremented my way up to this)
8 30lb assisted pullups (If i could lose 30 lbs I could do unassisted pullups. Wouldn't that be cool?)

Private Practice hours 1.5
40 dbl bd
30 Rabb
20 standard singles and doubles

BPMs:

Rabb:
384 Interlaced:
688 Right:
464 Left:

BD:
755 singles:
742: double strokes:

Standard hands
815: singles:
882: double strokes:

Jan 17 '10 Sunday

Leg joint stability exercises
75 crunches
MINUTES:
30  Rabb
30  Dbl bd

RABB:
368  Interlaced
688  Right
432  Left

Dbl bd
680  Singles

On Double Bass:
I tried 16th note triplets starting at 60 bpm for one minute, then moved up to 70 for one minute, etc, until I got to, I think it was 130 bpm.  which got me around 688.  Swivel ankles is becoming more familiar.  I use it with Moeller ankles instead of just using Moeller ankles, now. 

Jan 16 2009 Saturday

Total drumming hours 8.5 (teaching and practicing)
Private Practice hours 2+

30 dbl bd
30 Rabb

BPMs:
Rabb:   
432  Interlaced:

768  Right: 
384  Left: 

BD:
728  singles:
702:  double strokes: 

Standard hands:
778:  singles:

945: double strokes:

Did ankle knee hip stability exercises last night
Missed my heavy day Thurs which turned into two more missed days.  Tomorrow morning has got to happen.  Haven't had a heavy day in 11 days!  Better not go to hard tomorrow.

Jan 14 08 Thurs

20 Rabb
20 dbl kick
20 figuring out places in my concert music to fit in dbl kick and rabb!

RABB
368  Interlaced
608  Right  --painful.  Why?  I lost concentration and did 'hear' early warnings, then I didn't stop. From now on when pain hits, I'll stop and take the truncated score
384  Left  --nearly painfree.  Not good enough.  Should have stopped myself and taken the lower score.  I did stop a couple of times during but should have stopped completely. It's the only way I'll train myself to relaxe and not push too hard.

694  Hands Single Stroke

DBL BD
694  Both
343  Right
350  Left (softer pedal recoil)
 

January 13 '10, Weds

Practiced a tiny bit before rehearsal with Fred Radke in which I played 2 hours solid.  But......

I used the Rabb in a drumsolo!  It was ratty and raised some eyebrows and has totally inspired me to get a one handed roll going by the concerts March 10th and 13th.  The solos in this set are mostly quiet--and basically innapropriately placed.  The bassist, Lea, suggested that I lower my asthetic and elevate my ego, and just go for it.  Which is actually very perceptive and would broaden me a bit if only I could. 

But, I'm thinking this is an opportunity to use my speedyish feet and my Rabb for a public commitment or hurdle.  Got asked to play in another band tonight that needs a 'real' big band drummer, not just another combo guy.  But, it was too much time away from my top priorities. 

I made a lot of progress on patent updates, Amazon research to see if they could be my software download vendor (no), and kind of re-org-ing our software partnership for 2010.

Had a couple of kids over to play with Neo for an hour, Octavio met with his acting coach for a half hour and his OT gym leader in Bothel.  Didn't want to risk exercizing today because I woke up at 12:30 am and couldn't get to sleep.  At 2:30 went to work on project and basically worked till noon, with a stop to get the boys ready and take them to school.  Wednesdays are tough.

Jan 12 '10, Tues

Gym:  Stretching, massage rollers, squats

30 minutes  Rabb
30 minutes  Dbl bd
15 minutes timings

RABB:
Interlacing 384  No pain
Right         576  Pain
Left           384  Pain

REGULAR:
Hands SS Roll:  733 sloppy
Hands DS Roll: 730 sloppy

Dbl bd SS:         746 sloppy
Dbl bd DS:        706 sloppy  a little pain (not acceptable)

Jan 11, 2008 Monday

Calf, ankle, knee, hip work at gym.  Tom House for drummers.

Feet 0
Hands 0 

Jan 3-8 Cancun, Jan 9 & 10 Redmond WA

Took my stick and practice pad, but wisely enough, I didn't use them.  My wrists and fingers had begun to hurt from too much too soon.  And especially, I think, from playing through pain instead of stopping completely.  So, I'm changing my directive to Painless Practice!!!  I've always wondered if it's really true what a lot of people say about gaining speed without "working out".  Just by getting more coordinated and your muscles changing over a long period to be fast.  This will be interesting.  In Cancun I did, however, workout.  Yay! 

Daily crunches on inflated exercise capsules, and leg extensions.
Monday:   Heavy lifting upper body work.
Tuesday:   Fire hidrants etc for hips and upper legs.
Weds:       5lbs dumbells doing drummer like movements (Tom House concepts)
Thurs:       Squats with capsules on wall, 5lb run through of all the different upper body lifts Monday, and Body Surfing.  
Friday:     Body surfing and ocean snorkely type swimming.  Got SOOOooo dizzy. 
Saturday:  Taught 13 drum lessons from 8 to 3.  Introduced students to the Drum-o-meter.  They seemed very excited about it.  Recorded their scores. 
Sunday:  Calf work: 
Eyes closed, both feet on wobble board 40 ankle range of motion rotations per side.
Eyes open:
Single foot ankle rotations 40 per side
Single wobble board calf raisers 30 per side (between all that double bass drumming the previous week, and not doing ankle/calf/foot work daily my ankles were really out of it this this morning).
Single wobble pad calf raisers 30 or 40 per side, can't remember!
Lot's of stretching today, too. 

Plan to do my one hour of one hand and dbl bass later today.  Right now calves are pretty tense.  Will probably save myself a lot of pain by just walking around the block first.

Flying out to Mexico this morning

Taking sticks and feet with me.  Will keep up the discipline using the floor and a chair or pillow as my drums.  Probably won't get to update for a week.

Jan 2, 2010, Saturday

Taught a few hours (many students still on vacation).  When I teach we play together a lot--most of the lesson.  SO, I got 2.5 additional hours of seat time.

Rabb 30 minutes

Dbl bd 30 minutes

Speeds counted manually (Drum-O-Meter package is in Washington but not at the house yet):

Rabb Right: attempted to record on drum o meter.  It double triggers with the rim hits, so I've got to build another device. (very sloppy)
Rabb Left: attempted to record on drum o meter. It double triggers with the rim hits, so I've got to build another device. (very sloppy)
Rabb Alt attempted to record on drum o meter. It double triggers with the rim hits, so I've got to build another device.  (Interlaced one-handed rolls) ouch in the left last 15 seconds

Non-Rabb Single Strokes 650
Non-Rabb Double strokes 851

Dbl Bass: timed but didn't record! (sloppy)
Dbl Bass 800 something, didn't record!  (sloppy)  

Jan 1, 2010 Times & Speeds in "BPM"

Rabb 45 minutes

Dbl bd 20 minutes

Speeds counted manually (Drum-O-Meter package is in Washington but not at the house yet):

Rabb Right: 624 (very sloppy)
Rabb Left: 544 (very sloppy)
Rabb Alt 416 (Interlaced one-handed rolls) ouch in the left last 15 seconds

Non-Rabb Single Strokes 650

Dbl Bass: 624 (sloppy)
Dbl Bass dbl strokes: 752 (sloppy)