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Learning to Drum
Jan. 7th, 2007 09:08 pmThe nice things about learning to drum is that while you can be out of rhythm, you can't producing bad unpleasant sounding notes as you can with many other instruments. Plus you can always fob off getting annoyed and hitting things randomly as practising riffs.
Today after actually using me head I believe I have my drum kit set up more correctly. Considering that I had mostly guessed and by the looks of it quite badly, this will hopefully make things easier.
So now I need to work on making my left arm stronger and generally more usable. I find it to be a generally unwieldy limb that doesn't do what I tell it to in general. Hopefully drumming and theoretically soon weight training will make it stronger and improve my control with it. Maybe in a couple of years I'll actually be able to fight ambidex. For now though I'll have to settle with managing about 75% of the drum roll as I can do what I need to do with my right hand, about half the required beats with my left.
Otherwise today has been pretty good. The expensive meal to celebrate my uncles 60th was very nice, however I'm not sure really how satisfied I would have been if I'd actually have paid for it. Good, but I'm not sure any restaurant meal is worth that amount of money.
Unfortunately I utterly failed to head up before the larp to talk to people by waking up at 12:30. I need to work out how to wake up to a level in which get up rather than just enough to turn off an alarm. I also didn't make it down the pub as well laziness one out, and I didn't fancy the weather once it started to rain.
Today after actually using me head I believe I have my drum kit set up more correctly. Considering that I had mostly guessed and by the looks of it quite badly, this will hopefully make things easier.
So now I need to work on making my left arm stronger and generally more usable. I find it to be a generally unwieldy limb that doesn't do what I tell it to in general. Hopefully drumming and theoretically soon weight training will make it stronger and improve my control with it. Maybe in a couple of years I'll actually be able to fight ambidex. For now though I'll have to settle with managing about 75% of the drum roll as I can do what I need to do with my right hand, about half the required beats with my left.
Otherwise today has been pretty good. The expensive meal to celebrate my uncles 60th was very nice, however I'm not sure really how satisfied I would have been if I'd actually have paid for it. Good, but I'm not sure any restaurant meal is worth that amount of money.
Unfortunately I utterly failed to head up before the larp to talk to people by waking up at 12:30. I need to work out how to wake up to a level in which get up rather than just enough to turn off an alarm. I also didn't make it down the pub as well laziness one out, and I didn't fancy the weather once it started to rain.
