Looking back on the week, the overarching theme seemed to be balancing discipline with joy and prioritization. There was a lot of focus on tweaking of the flows. Songs for 1000s of cats, to-do app/gtd, and even wiki for work all got smoothed out.

There was an undercurrent of appreciating control and structure to achieve goals.

Music

Listened to so many amazing albums this last week. There were a few that had some whoa-ments.

At the Five Spot Vol. 1 
Eric Dolphy feat. Booker Little, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis & Ed Blackwell 

Dissonance rules. This album has dissonance wonderfully blended with sweetness and sadness. I love live jazz album that make you feel like you are in a tiny club.

In the Land of Grey and Pink 
Caravan

Columbia Singles 
Susan Christie

These two albums came out decades before their times. From what I read about both is that people completely didn't get it when they were released. It's like two indie albums hatched way before the rest of the eggs.

One of my nods to an album that is genius is to switch from Music to Podcasts.

My note using voice dictation in at a noisy show says "Make candles out of old bananas". Took me a minute or two to remember that I wanted to make handles out of old bandanas last night.

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.