Thursday, July 26, 2007

Technique/warm-up:

• 10 mins - major scales, 105 bpm
• 10 mins - white note scales, 70 bpm
• 10 mins - major modes, 90 bpm
• 10 mins - dom. 7 arpeggio's, 80 bpm
• 10 mins - whole range ex. nr. 3
• 10 mins - chromatic scale, 100 bpm

4-mallet technique:

• 20 mins - 4-mallet ex. nr. 7 in 12 keys, this is kind of a poppy groove
• 10 mins - walking bass(left hand) on Oleo(Bb Rhythm)

soloing/tunes:

• 60 mins - soloing on Don't Get Around + checked out some of Tony's solo!
• 30 mins - Green Dolphin street etude page 3
• 30 mins - Donna Lee melody in 12 keys
• 30 mins - Bluesette solo version

So, as you can see I'm trying to organize my time a little more into different area's of practicing. If anyone has some more ideas I'd love to hear them!

Here are the exercises I mentioned above:

• 4-mallet, ex. 7
• whole range nr. 3

The whole range 3 is a nice exercise for tritones that mess up you're sticking. I play it all alternate sticking and try to avoid hitting you're sticks into one another...haha