This blog has now reached it's end. The American Adventure has finished. Will there be a sequel in the near future? One will never know, but for now let's let the credits roll...
Showing posts with label practice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label practice. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Chapter A - AA RR?

My new baby has arrived!

This is my 'intermediate' purchase. Once I go pro, I'll upgrade further.








Time to test this sucker out.

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UPDATE

IT SOUNDS GORGEOUS! I'M IN LOVE!!!!

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SECOND UPDATE

This baby sounds gorgeous on the recordings. DELICIOUZ BEATZ.

Check it out.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Chapter kthxlolbbq!

LOOK WHAT I FOUND!

This is an LPW I didn't record for some reason, and someone else did! Featuring me! Yay!

The joys of youtube. There's actually another one with me in it, but you can't see me. You can look on this dude's videos and find the 'North, South, East and West' one to hear me playing if you want to. Yay!


Oh and here's a little something extra for you. Turn the volume down. You have been warned.


One more LPW coming. Once I get round to editing it.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Chapter Jive - Just Jamming Jiving Jazz

Uptempo jazz practice session.

Recording is crap as usual. Will attempt a better one soon. Bear with it.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Chapter Exodus - the comeback

This is actually round 3 of the 'KJ Vs Double Bass' fight.

Round 2 was unfilmed because it kicked my butt.

But I think I've gained ground this time.

The score is Kj - 1 Double Bass - 2


Stay tuned for my adventure meeting Mr. Greg Bissonette.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Chapter R for Random Images

Ok ok ok ok ok...

Swish swish video is coming.

What on earth is a swish swish video? Well, I guess if you know what drummers are all about you've pretty much guessed it. If you have, don't tell anyone who hasn't. For those who haven't, live with the suspense. *evil grin*

Anyway,

To make up for my tardiness in getting the 'swish swish' video together, here are some random images I took recently of my lab. Some of you guys have never seen my practice lab before. So here it is. This is where I spend my dark and lonely nights every night of the week.

Ironic how I told myself that I would NEVER work in a cubicle and here I am, stuck in what basically is the size of a cubicle, practicing every night. God has a funny sense of humor.

These are the wood chips you see littering the floor. And pretty much 15% of my sticks.

My sticks now.

And the wear and tear contributing the the cleanliness of the floor.

Never in my life have I used my sticks so much. I think my practice here in these 4 months has amounted to more than I've ever played in my life. I've broken as many sticks in this time as I have over my entire course of ever playing drums. Interesting statistic.

WAIT FOR THE SWISH SWISH VIDEO! IT'S WORTH IT!

COMING SOON TO A THEATER (READ:THIS DARN BLOG) NEAR YOU!

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Chapter - OMG this is hard work!

What goes down in the practice labs every darn night. 

My hands are steadily improving because of this vigourous training. It's not all fun fun fun.. wait this is kinda fun too.


Saturday, May 9, 2009

Chapter XD (Blue Cheese Part 2)

So I forgot to bring my camera cable the other day. So I couldn't update my blue cheese dressing pictures. 

THERE! The dangerous dressing. It looks so tempting doesn't it? But it's scary. And I have a whole bottle to finish now. DUN DUN DUN!


Anyway, moving on.
I bought a brick the other day. Yeap, you read that right. I bought a brick. For a 100 dollars. It's not an ordinary brick though. It's made of 12 parts. Each part can be divided into two equal parts. And it's quite heavy. And it's made of wood.

TADAA!!!

That's a brick of sticks. I needed to get some sticks for my practice. That's about 8 bucks per pair. And I hope that lasts me till forever. I hope.

And another thing, I've been practising like a maniac. And I have proof. You know sometimes when you use a part of your body too much it starts to show signs of wear and tear or just plain hardening up to the abuse? Kind of like how people get that 'weathered' look when they spend too much time out in the sun or something? Well... The very same thing has happened to my finger. For those of you who don't know, I play drums with a grip that has the stick resting on my ring finger in my left hand. And after all the maniacal practice, my finger has become discoloured.

Yeap. That's not dirt or some kind of lighting effect. That is actually a dark brown discolouration happening to my skin. The skin there is also particularly hard and rough. Scary eh?

Last bit of this mumbo jumbo update. I'll say this - 'You're never too far away from home.'

MAGGI GORENG! TADDAA!!!

-KJ

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Chapter 4&5&6&7&8

Nifty video of my practice in the lab. This is what it sounds like every night.
Sorry it cuts off half way... I ran out of video.
Enjoy.