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Lately on my own, I've been on a jazz/latin regiment lately in my free time, building my chops for another show at the Berklee HS Jazz Fest. I've been working on being a more creative soloist, coming up with more unique phrasing, and being more well-structured. I've been listening to a LOT of Dave Weckl material for inspiration
Im also working on my speed as always, I was able to develop a blastbeat technique (TOP SECRET) that lets ME at least - play George Kollias Blastbeats without straining myself, as well as gravity blasts as well (1 handed drum roll + blasting).
I'm in 2 bands, one is more southern rock style - I'm learning a Dave Mathews song. a couple Eagles tunes, some Skynyrd, some Allman Brothers, and perfecting 4 older original songs before I was in the band, and the other one- my metal band, writing/tweaking drum parts for our first 2 original tunes.
All the meanwhile, I am the Captain of my schools Drumline, while playing quints. We ranked #18 in the nation last year at Giants Stadium, and we're much better than we were a year ago, hopefullly we can crack the top 10 next month at Nat'l Championships in Pennsylvania.
And thanks to that bastard
Matt Moliti needing a drummer, I have to re-learn a couple songs, perfect them, record them, in hopes of landing that gig as well.
All in all, Im spending I'd venture to guess 30-40hrs/week involved with music in some form, and I'm loving every minute of it!