frozen octopus

RLRL R (single stroke) - Crash on right side 
RLRR L (paradiddle) - Crash on left side

Right out of the gate for 2025 is that. It is so easy to be lazy and do the first one. The second one is elegant and energy-saving. Gotta stop reaching my right-hand across to hit a thing my left hand should be doing.

The drum thing I am celebrating for 2024 is the letter B. B is for both. Things can be both.

I started off the year studying jazz drumming. I started noticing in the lessons that with the hands, things seemed to be Left, Right, or Both. So all my notes started to have "B" along with "L" and "R".

Slowly "B" began to creep into all my other areas of drumming (band, shortcuts, etc.).

I haven't abandoned LRK or LR. Just have the new options of LRKB and LRB.