I Totally Forgot » Drumming http://itotallyforgot.com ... wait what was I doing here? Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:48:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Blag! http://itotallyforgot.com/2009/01/16/blag/ http://itotallyforgot.com/2009/01/16/blag/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:29:30 +0000 Daniel http://itotallyforgot.com/?p=84 So what is new? Not much is new!

Things are going well with the band. Next week I'm going to go over to Gareth's, and instead of practicing, we're going to go through each song and start to give it structure. That way we will hopefully start to get our act together more quickly, and I will also have a base to work on when I practice at home. Also, "Since I've Been Loving You" is so much fun to drum to.

I've started doing some art again. I always have a hard time thinking up ideas that I actually want to draw, so I've taken an old picture I did in black and white, and I'm trying a new way of colouring. I'm attempting to use a base colour other than white (I'm doing it on a sepia-ish background), and I'm also going to attempt to do the whole thing without any lines; just colour. It's going pretty well so far... but I definitely need to work on hair. It's much more difficult to do in this style than what I'm used to. Shauna has also "commissioned" a few works from me... I really should get to work on those!

]]> http://itotallyforgot.com/2009/01/16/blag/feed/ 0 Immigrant Song http://itotallyforgot.com/2008/12/19/immigrant-song/ http://itotallyforgot.com/2008/12/19/immigrant-song/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:31:03 +0000 Daniel http://itotallyforgot.com/?p=56 Fun and simple song to play, but it gives you a damn good leg workout.  Good for working on fast single kicks.

    1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
HH  x   x   x   x x x   x   x   x x
SN          x               x
K   x   x x   x     x   x x   x
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Also, my Protest The Hero vinyl came in the mail today.  It was done up in cardboard and duct tape, with the address sharpied on.  Hardcore.  The box got a bit dented on one side during shipping, but the record is fine.  Now to wait to have the house to myself, so I can blast it on the surround in the living room.

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   1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
HH x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x
Sn         x x   x   x   x   x   x
K  x   x x         x   x

This one is fun, to me, because despite the evenness of the snare, the kick puts some interesting emphasis on it near the end.

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