A truly Epic day of music today- an inspiring writing session with the new live drum and bass and trip hop project at Music Ape Studios, followed by lunch with an old friend, then 2 drum lessons.

  Drums in Bristol….

One new student, and one old one; I say old, she is 7 as from last week, and has nailed her 6th beat in as many weeks of lessons more or less. So well done Amile! Fantastic work.

After teaching I ran the latest instalment of Lights Out. The night focuses on bringing talented artists to attentive audiences in the Basement of the Arts House, on Stokes Croft. All in a fully acoustic environment. It was a corker.

And to finish the evening off, I hit the Left Bank open Mic and sat in with a mega slick funk band, with some talented MCs preaching to the crowd while we held it down.

A quick cuppa with sound engineer Dave Laycock on the way home and that’s me. How did I ever survive without  Miso soup?! It’s heating up now for a keen session drummer in Bristol City.

Drum Exercise 1

 

 

One of the best things about regular practice is that it really keeps you limbered up- and you stumble upon things that you didn’t know you couldn’t do yet in terms of limb independence.

Give this a try;   

R L R L R L R R  L R L R L R L L    repeat.

K       K       K         K       K       K     etc

Loop the 16 note pattern with a continuous rolling ‘3’ kick pedal note.

Try it with your left foot too.