Learning to Drum

[same_difference]

The 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.

Comments

[almosthonest.livejournal.com]

I'm in agreement with you on the need for a wake-up system can actually keeps me awake. Tomorrow morning I will be attempting using my stereo as an alarm. Back at Uni I used the Mortal Kombat soundtrack CD as wake-up music - it worked fairly well. The added advantage of using my stereo is that it's in a different room from where I sleep. Merely putting an alarm across the other side of the room has utterly failed.

[jimmyt64.livejournal.com]

My alarm is ridiculously loud, which jolts me out of sleep good.

A stereo in a different room sounds like something I'd sleep through.

[almosthonest.livejournal.com]

I plan to have it well turned up. ;-)

It's true, it's a danger - but for heaven's sake, I can get out of bed, cross the room, and switch off the alarm - twice - without that actually waking me up. I need something!

[baloonworld.livejournal.com]

Time-locked box of spiders?

[almosthonest.livejournal.com]

Problem well solved. Maybe I should have said: I need something that will wake me up and also allow me to move freely around the flat without freezing in terror. ;-)

[same-difference.livejournal.com]

None of which helps me with my current problem. I wonder if there is an optimal amount of electric shock to wake someone up...

[xanthipe]

Now if only you'd asked that _before_ I'd picked my lab project...