What Will I Practice Today? The Teacher's Regime

1. Warm-up: singles, doubles, paradiddles over feet ostinatos with metronome.
2. Rudiments, rudiments, rudiments. Today Flam rudiments are on order.
3. Sight reading: Good sight-reading chops are required for all teachers. And, community band musicians. When I sub in a big band, fumbling with unfamiliar charts is out of the question. Sight-reading skills are one of the cornerstones of my professional success as a musician. Forty-five years and counting!
4. Repertoire review: Pandemic will over next year. I will have my classic rock repertoire up to speed and ready to go.
5. Double bass drum pedal rudiments: Single and double patterns.
6. Drumming skills: Bebop vocabulary including fills, riffs, and set-ups.
7. Review my students' repertoire and lesson plans.
8. Work on a mix of a track I recorded with pianist Jacqueline Leung this week: New Music/Improvisation. 
9. Transcribe a short drum groove from a current pop hit. I'll put it up here later today.  Say so, Dojo Cat drum groove. What a lot of fun that was. So simple, but so effective against the bass line.

David