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Here's a warm up/ exercise I got hip to last year by Tim Metz (West coast jazzer). It's two single paradiddles followed by a paradiddle-diddle. It takes 7 measures for it to repeat. (Play exercise as many times as you like). The goal is to be able to count the quarter note pulse and not the accented rhythm this combo produces. It's a hand exercise but I like to add a foot ostinato ( 4 on the floor and hihat on 2&4). Then you can do it with single, single, double paradiddle to alternate hands throughout the warmup.

Post what you are practicing here. Let's make this a community growth thing! Looking forward to seeing you!

Here's my pre-show warm up for today. Try it!

Here’s a quote from Evan Carmichael: “Whatever your big goals are, you don’t have the skills right now to accomplish them. The bigger the goal is, the more inadequate you feel right now in your abilities. That’s ok. The key thing here is that you don’t have the skills right now. How do you get them? By learning and practicing. By failing and sucking at the start. And by developing the identity that you’re the kind of person who will now tie your self-worth to the effort you put in every day instead of to the results you get every day. If you can make that daily habit stick and show up with your best effort every day, I promise you amazing things will happen.” From the book MOMENTUM.