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That’s a little personal but congrats, I guess.

So YOU’RE to blame for how brutally bad those absolutely fucking clutch touchdowns were, huh? Shame on you!

I think far right is Peter Navarro.

For shirts and casual, I like Drake’s and more and more liking Sid Mashburn.

That’s totally kick-ass. That’s totally kick-ass.

I'll echo Celery and 650. It's been a fun exercise so far. Songwriting, alone at least, has never been something I've spent time with and it's always been a frustration. This challenge and the group and the feedback has nudged me to say "fuck it" and just make SOMETHING. My entry for last month is about how everyone assumed Rust's stunt was some big statement to save the world... but, nah, he just did the whole thing for a girl. In hindsight (and planning ahead for this month's song) I'll probably just stick to guitar and vocals without fooling around (poorly) with GarageBand too much. As I've caveated to the group, my musical experience has overwhelmingly been behind a drumkit, so this is giving me the opportunity to stretch and learn. Better late than never!

Oh it’s an eyelash. Make a wish. I don’t want to. Make a wish. Didn’t come true.

JJ, do you think there is a microphone combo for under, say $1000? That r121 is nice but spendy. And could you diagram how you place? Is either overhead or is it snare side and in front?

May be little too on the nose, but:

Those are sharp! And love the natural wood bass drum hoops. (Not to mention that port hole!). Well done.

Is Frogger a sport?

Jerry won “the race” twice before choosing not to run again.

Best part of that picture is the “RUDE” cymbals. If there was ever a band I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall of….

Also for drummers counting, the best clue to how he’s playing it is lock into the ride cymbal and double time it.

Also if we want a fun time signature prompt, this one is a great start. If you go to the 3:00 mark, it’s a crazy example of something that sounds very polyrhythmic but really it’s just 7/8 pattern with the melody lagging to almost feel 3/4 and 2/3. But it’s not! It’s straight 7/8 through to the outro. And PS affinity for his music or not or his personality or not, Sting was a fucking songwriting monster. Copeland would have done well to keep his wagon hitched. But I digress.

Come on now, shoot for the moon! I believe in you, Sidis, baby!! (But, also take it slow)

Apropos of nothing, Brisket, anyone have a good King Ranch chicken casserole recipe? It’s been decades and for some reason I have a hankerin’ Oh, also, God is nature and music and selflessness. (Might have been Jesus, too, but we have no way to know and I’d rather not wager civilization on it). And either way, religion sucks.

Ouch. But I kinda get it. Also… something, something username.

Every player is different, but I personally wouldn’t worry too much about polyrhythmic complexity until later. And remember, that is a different challenge than limb independence. Start with the latter. Polyrhythmic playing is ultimately about patterns so can be developed like any other element: start slow, break things down, and practice. When you get there, Future Sounds by Dave Garibaldi is a great book on creativity and time across the set. I think reasonable sequence of goals for practice over time would be: - rudiments - basic kit patterns and styles - kit fluidity and limb independence - kick and hands speed development - advanced sticking - advanced time signatures / multi-rhythm That’s about 10 years of drumming right there. Start slow and don’t progress until you are absolutely nails on what you’re practicing at moderate speed. Much harder than it sounds. Many many very snazzy drummers could play crazy shit at 240 bpm ALMOST ALMOST well…. but would actually struggle to play a PERFECT double roll or paradiddle at 100 bpm. Focus on precision and feel and beat first. And also you seem to have good sense of what your goals are. Build your learning plan to that. I’ve known beginners who could play a reasonable gig in a rock band in matter of weeks. But not if they can’t keep a beat. Most music is played between 100-140 bpm (way generalizing here) so don’t try to learn the things Terry Bozzio plays unless you want to play Terry Bozzio music. Probably a bad example but you get it.

It’s time to put the whole system on trial!

Holy shit, was not expecting that! That is an unfathomable leap. Take it easy on yourself! You’ll get to wherever you want to go but it takes a lot of time and energy. Good to have a goal. For me years ago, I just wanted to master the Purdie shuffle. For as simple as it is, it was daunting. But I’ve been playing it 20+ years and STILL can’t make it sound quite exactly like the big guy could. The one thing I’ll say if you want to get from A to B to L, M, N, O, P…. Rudiments. Learn them and practice them every damn day. Hands and feet. Don’t have to know them all but the main six, master them. Everything else gets a lot easier from there. It’s a fun ass journey though.

Nor should we bother to look at the common tool utilized across all of them. Much less the most atrocious of them.

Ha, joke’s on you, asshole! Because of you and your people, there’s a better chance here - in ANY community - than anywhere in the world that your kids or your kids’ kids will have their voice boxes shredded by a hail of bullets before they even get to form ideas much less sentences…. Ha ha!

I’ll see you’re 3/4 and raise you 2/3. Also that is badass, sidis. Drum team representing! (My month one contribution will be decidedly non-public).

Don’t get me wrong, you should definitely buy (and post pics of) more things, just not necessarily a new drumhead.