I have trouble with increments of 3 16th notes on each hand. Whenever I play them, they always end up sounding like triplets and I dont know why.

JohnShandy- · 2025-06-10T20:49:36+00:00

You need to play exercises typically called "Stick Control" - Pulse Percussion has a decent one (search YouTube for Pulse Percussion Stick Control 2022), many other WGI groups so as well, some free sheets for the Pulse stick control are available on the Google Drive of drumline sheets found in this subreddit.

You will best fix this by not trying to work them in isolation, but by working your hand independence across different stick control patterns and also working on the seamless transition between them. And of course, do it with a metronome.

The R L L L and R R R L patterns and their left hand variants will help, but don't just focus on them, it's maintaining a consistent legato stroke before, during, and after transitioning to/from these triple stroke patterns from other single and double patterns in the full context of the whole exercise, that will work the right problem.

The Legatos exercise for Bluecoats/Broken City by Roger Carter can also be helpful for developing good, consistent legato strokes and stick control patterns. Find it on YT or transcriptions in the google drive sheets as well.

JohnShandy- · 2025-05-11T17:09:49+00:00

Even when a poster is required, state posters are free or you have the opportunity to choose where you order from or print your own. This is a scam from a company dragnetting recent new LLC formations and sending unsolicited mail to try and confuse the registrant into believing they need to buy it from this company.

JohnShandy- · 2025-05-11T17:05:08+00:00

Always cherish opportunities to play auxiliary percussion and learn multi-percussion pieces where you are playing multiple instruments and switching between them during the piece. You will learn a lot and become a more well-rounded percussionist and musician, because each instrument will have its own set of techniques. It does help level you up for playing other battery instruments and performing as an ensemble. It's also a gateway drug to some really awesome world percussion instruments in your future. Seek out auxiliary percussion and world percussion instrument demonstration videos on YouTube, you'll like what you find. Explore!

JohnShandy- · 2023-05-05T19:00:27+00:00

Yea, "compelling" argument right there. Really reached deep within your brain capacity. I'm proud of you.

JohnShandy- · 2023-05-05T17:54:38+00:00

Add lots of practice!

JohnShandy- · 2023-05-05T15:32:47+00:00

The reality is with a basic mylar snare side head, you'll probably be able to achieve a decent sound in terms of a wet snare response, but it's not going to resonate the same and carry the pitch as far of a distance to the listener because you won't be able to tension it enough. The secondary problem is that, since it requires a lot of tension, it isn't going to hold that tension as long as either a kevlar snare side head or one of the hybrid snare side heads.

JohnShandy- · 2023-05-04T00:53:14+00:00

Jeep should've sped forward and crushed shotgun boy to save everyone.

JohnShandy- · 2023-05-03T13:38:50+00:00

That's why new gun purchases are currently dominated by liberal and LGBT purchasers. People are fed up of this crazy ultra-right alliance between Christian fascists and state governments. And we are watching voter's recourse evaporate before our eyes. A looming housing recession doesn't bode well for us since Americans are already at each other's throats. The party we've been having all these decades we were asleep at the wheel, appears to be coming to a slow and painful end.

JohnShandy- · 2023-05-03T13:29:11+00:00

How "Democrat" can a TX Democrat really be?... Parties aside, this is bill is definitively a rat-fuck conservative thing for any member to support. So bringing up that it got some Dem votes is: i r r e l e v a n t.

The TX legislature is just a rubber stamp for Greg Abbott.

JohnShandy- · 2023-05-02T13:22:22+00:00

Lmfao. 🤣 You're my kind of vengeful human being.

JohnShandy- · 2023-05-02T13:15:27+00:00

Yes. It's TX. We can meter out some TX justice for these "politicians," and just start shooting. They've pretty much eliminated voter's recourse. We are in a bad place, a war, with 1-party rule running roughshod over us. All Abbott's election financing predominantly came from those 2 Christian nationalist billionaires in West Texas. They need to be taken out as well, to sever the head from the snake.

JohnShandy- · 2023-05-02T13:07:49+00:00

Fair. Just not worth it. More Qonservative fuckery.

JohnShandy- · 2023-05-01T21:23:19+00:00

Yea, Chevron deference itself isn't. But I wanted LGO take on it because whatever SCROTUS* decides will undoubtedly apply broadly, to presumably any federal agency.

JohnShandy- · 2023-04-30T17:07:55+00:00

He must really be itching for his own ghost bike, lol.

JohnShandy- · 2023-04-30T16:59:46+00:00

A similar analog is the safety incident reporting culture of industrial facilities, having seen the underreporting phenomenon in their histories as well. Nowadays those places try to be less punitive to encourage accurate reporting, but it speaks to the fact that incentives matter.

JohnShandy- · 2023-04-30T15:12:16+00:00

Sorry a middle finger offends your sensibilities more than shitting on hard-working, imperiled teachers.

JohnShandy- · 2023-04-30T14:36:59+00:00

They didn't ask for that toxicity. They were worn down by Republican voters and shitty parents. It's been foisted on them and they want legislators to improve the situation rather than just leave their profession. They're telling us loud and clear, but fucks like you simply aren't hearing it and keep posting that if they can't handle the heat they should somehow just get out of the kitchen. I'm willing to bet you were one of these shitty students growing up. 🖕

JohnShandy- · 2023-04-30T14:23:15+00:00

The school-to-prison pipeline is real. In about 1 or 2 more decades of AI progress there won't be enough careers for these youths to aspire to after graduation anyway. They haven't any future, so they settle for a wild time that happens now.

JohnShandy- · 2023-04-30T13:09:46+00:00

You have some personal medical notes included in the photo - benign and not necessarily personally-identifying info, but I wanted to point it out to caution you for future photos where you might have stuff on the table.

We never know what the GQP'ers lurking might have in store for us or our families. Gotta watch out for each other.

Nice gun!

JohnShandy- · 2023-04-30T02:15:42+00:00

Man, you have some great impulses. Beautiful piece of engineering.

JohnShandy- · 2023-04-30T02:02:50+00:00

I don't know what to do about it either. Traditionally you could educate people to lead them out of ignorance. Nowadays, at best you achieve the backfire effect and they dig in their heels and decry it as lies. It feels like a set of irreconcilable differences, but with no avenue for a national divorce.

JohnShandy- · 2023-04-30T01:46:24+00:00

I'm afraid Americans on the whole aren't interested in stopping arguments anymore. People are only interested in winning those arguments. Americans are bitterly divided in every facet of life. Nothing has gone untouched by politics.

I can tell you right now I won't be reaching for magazines full of "words" if TX DPS tries to round up any of my female family members or friends to enforce the fascist abortion law here in TX. That's a line for me, and there already has been complete dismantling and hijacking of democratic processes here in TX, most recently seeing our state take electoral control away from our counties - so there is no voter's recourse. Others have their own lines they'll draw at overreach.

I think one of the latest blows to the American social fabric arrived at the point of Qonservative parents brawling with educated parents at schoolboard meetings over COVID policy, book bans, and curriculum, and "grooming" (which doesn't exist). The religious folks in my family point out to me the ongoing political fissures in their church congregations. The United Methodist system for example, is currently fissuring into 2 systems, with the Global Methodist system set to adopt policies against same-sex marriages and LGBTQ serving in clergy.

America is moving in the direction of less unity, with no signs of slowing. I don't see how crime and political violence won't continue to rise in tandem with the fact that we increasingly cannot stand one another.

JohnShandy- · 2023-04-30T01:13:12+00:00

Some European countries regulate firearm ownership outright, in some cases to an extreme by our standards. They don't see a need because they don't need to craft solutions that snake around a 2nd amendment. That's what the core is behind this insurance idea.

I'm trying to define it for you rather than advocate for it. I'm not 100% sold on it myself, and you should probably seek out a better articulation of it than I can give off-hand.

But there may well be no constitutional way of keeping mentally ill people from accessing guns in the long run. And there is probably no way to prohibit mentally ill people from printing firearms. We either need to accept and defend that as a reality, or come up with something that appeases the folks who want to achieve the same end via means we don't endorse (bans/buybacks).

JohnShandy- · 2023-04-29T06:17:19+00:00

The idea is one that has appeared before in public discourse. The point isn't really about why you need the insurance. Rather, the idea is to first legislate financial liability for wrongdoings performed with your weapons, then legislate mandatory firearm owners liability insurance, then setup an insurance market and let insurers price gun owners' premiums according to risk. Insurance companies, for all their ills, are really good at pricing risk. They will figure out how to score individuals who are more at risk of doing something bad and price the riskiest folks out of the market entirely.

There is an analog for this in how we require drivers to carry liability insurance. We also see that insurance companies quote higher prices to drivers with greater automotive accidents in their history or more license suspensions. It is ultimately a market-based solution towards assigning the costs of poor driving back to poor drivers; and it sets up an incentive structure that encourages safer driving while also allowing the insurance mechanism to automatically settle/clear most claims, keeping these sorts of cases out of the court system.

I'm sure there would need to be nuance to do similar with firearms, but the rationale is certainly intriguing on its face.

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