Looking Back and Progress

I haven't blogged for awhile so it was interesting to read my last blog on learning my first Hastings song. While I'm still a bit frustrated and I don't have all the song down yet, it IS amazing how it was tough to get that first groove to now, it's almost effortless. It's like my other instruments or like many things in life. You practice and practice and what at first seems to difficult to conguer eventually becomes second nature or almost automatic.

In track riding at first things come at you so fast. Keith Code put it in the concept of having a $1 worth of attention and at first you give 1 thing $.5 another thing $.25 and so on. Eventually all those things become almost automatic and afterwhile you have change to spare.

As for drumming. Again, I think I rushed learning a song. I went back to the Rock Drumming lessons and worked on the Intermediate book. I've made it about half way through and I've learned a couple more concepts that make playing the song easier. I'm progressing, of course, it would be nice if it was instantaneous but then everyone would do it... :)

I've been having a lot of fun playing and practicing. I probably practice more than I should. But even last night was super cool. I got to some hi-hat sequences and tom beats. The tom beats are great. I think the rest of the Intermediate lessons are going to be really cool. The Advanced book that comes next should be even more cool!