Think this wil be the last update here.
It's highly lightly that I'll be pretty much unemplyed except a few students in the evenings and the occasional weekend gig for the next year and until I hopefully will get back to school. No reason to not keep cracking. I've been refining things over Christmas and it seems I have my general recipe. It's a very intense 5 day thing and then taking it easier on the weekends. Works for me and works with having a life.
I've taken my ostinato practice back to the full Chaffee + reading and improv thing. After starting working out it's tough, but seems to be fine.
Mornings I get up at 7 and do a stretch and breathing routine + a push-up workout before breakfast and go to the kit around 8.
Before lunch I do a mid-section workout + grip training on mon wed fri
After the double bass workout I go for a long 60-90min walk, add hill sprints on mon, wen and fri and as many hindu squats I can.
All done before dinner at 7 p.m.
If I join the gym I'll just go do what I can't at home 3 times mnon, wen, fri and spend an hour in the sauna. On Saturday I'll just sit in the sauna between dinner and heading out.
Planned audition tunes at this point:
Frog Legs - Mark Egan
Mud Sauce - Weckl (inspired by the 2nd line thread)
Some rhythm changes tune
Some jazz ballad with brushes
Here's the plan. Sort of unintentionally has become a new years resolution:
Mon:Warm-up: Samba feet + 1 Lang/Patella Stick control kit interpretation 1hr
Wilcoxon in snare/kit 30 mins
4 Ostinatos 2 hrs
LUNCH BREAK
Jazz routine 2-3 hrs
DB:Stick Control as 16ths & 2+2 group , cross, improvisation 30 mins
Tuesday:Warm-up: Baiao feet + 1 Lang/Patella Stick control kit interpretation 1 hr
Wilcoxon on snare/kit 30 mins
4 Ostinatos 2 hrs
LUNCH BREAK
Jazz routine 2-3 hrs
DB: Singles H=16ths L=32, & 2+2 group , cross, improvisation 30 mins
Onsdag:Warm-up : 5/4 feet + 1 Lang/Patella Stick control kit interpretation
Wilcoxon on snare/kit 30 mins
4 Ostinatos 2 hrs
LUNCH BREAK
Jazz routine 2-3 hrs
DB: Single doubles through 16th note accents sheet & 2+2 group , cross, improvisation 30 mins
Thurs:Warm-up: 7/4 feet + 1 Lang/Patella Stick control kit interpretation 1 hr
Wilcoxon on snare/kit 30 mins
4 Ostinatos 2 hrs
LUNCH BREAK
Jazz routine 2-3 hrs
DB: 1-8 pr foot & 2+2 group , cross, improvisation 30 mins
FriWarm-up: 9/4 feet + 1 Lang/Patella Stick control kit interpretation 1 hr
Wilcoxon on snare/kit
4 Ostinatos 2 hrs
LUNCH BREAK
Jazz routine 2-3 hrs
DB: Rhythm scale 4-8 & 2+2 group , cross, improvisation 30 mins
Sat(short day):All out 12 limb pair conditioning 2 hrs
Jazz playing song review
Sun(rest day):If nothing else to do: slow relaxed Wilcoxon review on pad & brushes
It's very concept based, but this is how I've always aproached music in general and if everything is covered the right way it just works.
Breakfast:
Quinoa torytillas with goat cheese, butter and kim chi
Smoothie w/eggs
Lunch:
Millet or quinoa salad with meat, goat cheese, fermented veggies and super nutritious dressing.
Dinner:
Modified Sichuan style noodle soup and lot of fermented veggies + some steamed fish
Between meals: A tea based super food smoothie with protein powerder.
Bedtime: A cup of chamomille tea.
I supplement with anything that can help and wear my zapper most of the time.
Now, that's details for ya.
Now, this might sound fabulous and it would be if I was 19. I pretty much envy anyone who's done with their education, have a steady job or enough gigs to live on, stable income and a family. I guess at this point I can call the last few years a very real PTS thing.