Lessons, Week 52

That's it...a year of lessons under my belt.

We went over a one page drum solo trying to work it up to 96 bpm. It had some off beat bass hits and some 3 against 2 things which were kind of cool.

He also showed me a simple exercise where you set your metronome and play single strokes...first 1 beat per click, then 2, then 3, then 4, then 5, then 6, then 7, then 8, then 9, then 10...etc. At 10 he kinda broke down. I could only do up to 6. He said this will help with getting the feel for odd meters and for switching between them.

I mentioned to him that the latest edition of Turn It Up Lay It Down is about odd meters. I think I'm gonna get it cause it is a good chance to hear that stuff.