I meant to record and post this yesterday, since it marked the day I actually started working on the kit.  Now I'm thinking that Fridays are going to work better since I have Fridays off and practice/recording time is easier to come by.

This is a paradiddle, it's played 'R  L  R  R  L  R  L  L  R  L  R  R  L  R  L  L'.  I've been struggling with this for a while now, just didn't fell like I had a handle on it.  I was fine at very slow speeds, but once I tried to speed it up I often got lost and missed the correct strokes.  It didn't help that I haven't been very dedicated in my practice routines.  I played almost everyday, but I wasn't targeted in what I would practice so it often was just me smashing around the kit some, playing a rudiment or two for a few minutes, and/or trying to learn a bit of a song.

I'm going to start putting dedicated time into it going forward, so real improvements should be seen soon.

The quality isn't as good on this recording as the first one, because I turned the volume up on the kit and forgot to turn it down before recording, so I kind of overloaded what the little sound recorder in Windows can handle.


This is part of a sequence of recordings so I can track my progress.  Follow entries in the Benchmarks category with similar titles in chronological order to see how I'm improving.