Most of the time I spend on the pad nowadays is spent exploring/developing/tweaking various rudimental rhythms/patterns/stickings to music that I love, and I'm convinced that repetitive drumming to the music of your choice, with an extreme attention to the most minute details of your strokes developed over years of playing, is the most effective way of becoming a better musician and thinker.
Over the past year or so, I've tried to always keep a pad of paper or something nearby wherever it is that I find myself drumming in order to have the opportunity to write down some of the patterns that I've found helpful/entertaining/enlightening. I have a long backlog of these little jotted down ideas, and throughout the early stages of this blog, I'm going to be selecting some of those for web publication here [disclaimer: please excuse my sometimes sloppy notation, especially on the older notes -- I only ever jotted these things down with the intention of using them as sparks of inspiration for personal writing projects, so please leave comments and ask questions if some of the things that make perfect sense to me are at first baffling to anybody else!]. In that respect, this blog may be initially geared more towards gear-head battery percussionists who feel that they have a good understanding of technique (don't fool yourselves), but if there's a reasonable demand for it, this blog could certainly evolve in any direction, including education regarding technique/stroke mechanics -- again, feedback is key!
I also reserve the right to post anything that I feel is appropriate internet fodder to come out of the "Beat Lab", including, but not limited to, samples of whatever music projects I find myself currently engaged and interested in.
tl;dr || WELCOME FELLOW BEAT PIONEERS. This blog is where I will post music-type things that you may be interested in. Please leave comments to possibly affect the direction of the blog, and please subscribe/follow/whatever in order to keep up!
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