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Learned a little concentration exercise at drum lessons yesterday, which is really easy, but pretty tricky to keep doing for a while. Everyone can have a go at this, as long as you have to hands, a surface (can be a table or your legs or anything).

Tap the following with your hands:

Right, left, right, right

Then:

Left, right, left, left

And over and over again and try to increase speed. It’s called a paradiddle and you can keep saying that doing the exercise to keep on track.

If you want to make a little tougher on yourself hit the first hit a little harder so:

RIGHT, left, right right, LEFT, right, left, left

And if that bores you do a paradiddle diddle:

Right, left right, right, left, left, left, right, left, left, right, right

I can assure you, unless you’re focused you will loose track pretty quickly

I’ve decided that I wanted to practice more on a real drum kit, so I’ve found myself a little jam place near where we live. This is just additional to my electronic kit and probably just temporary until we have our new house and I can play whenever I want. At the moment I have to start working very early to play maybe an hour in the afternoon.

Anyway, the jam place is tiny, they have about 2 practice spaces and it’s rather a big wooden shed, but it serves the purpose I guess. It has a drum kit but they don’t provide the cymbals, so I bought my own set, which is nice, I can use it to jam with the band as well

The guy who runs the place is an absolute weirdo. I think he’s about 45, long, very skinny, big smile. He talks 120km/h, was absolutely plastered and stoned. I ended up listening to him for about 40 minutes, since I really couldn’t get a word in between But he was happy and gave me a discount on the costs, so for 3 hours I payed 10 euros, which is fair.