I am on to Chapter 2 of The Art of Bop Drumming and I noticed there are micro patterns occurring in the comping exercizes. When I get hung up on a part of a beat in the book, I go to these micro comping examples to isolate the issue. After looping a micro pattern for a while, the comping exercise is a lot less daunting for me.
I got myself a book called The Art of Bop Drumming because I have heard it referenced by at least three drummers on Youtube in the last year.
Brought it to the rehearsal studio and after about an hour, I had a beat going that sounded like an amateur jazz drummer.
I was hanging on for dear life but got it to new born deer trying to walk level. Very fun!
Also fun was taking the jazz pattern and flattening it to punk. Stoked to next 1000s of cats rehearsal.
I was searching around to see if someone has already come up with a text file based way to do music notation before I start to mess around with a way to do it in Text Expander or Shortcuts.
While I was looking around I found Lilypond. It's an open source text based way to write sheet music. It's a little bit more than I need but I got it setup on my laptop for the future. It's going to be very cool if I need to make some drum tabs in the future.
It's very nerdy but very powerful. After ten minutes of playing around with it, I decided to put it away because I need to get drums practiced.
My drum practice theme for tonight's trip to the rehearsal studio is "if someone's Eighties Casio keyboard malfunctioned, could I play all the drum patterns".
Today me gave the gift of a two hour drum rehearsal session at 10:30pm tomorrow night. We'll see how stoked tomorrow me is tomorrow.
I want to try writing a whole song on drums with no concept of a melody. Then I want to show up to the next rehearsal and see what guitar part gets added to it.
Songwriting has begun. Feeling very floor tom-y lately.
A solid rehearsal today. Getting ready for our show on 06/02 in Koshigaya. Started in on a new song even.
Got to hangout with someone who is just starting his journey into music. Fun to hear about the differences and samenesses about doing a starting a music project at 20 years old in 2022 vs. when I started in 1990.