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Watched an interview with Gavin Harrison (drummer) last night. He talked about practicing just very simple - the most simple - 4/4 drum groove. Over and over and over. His point was that for 90% of shows, that’s what you play. Not the fancy fills. Just keeping time. Simply.Permalink On twitter.com
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I remember reading about Mike Tyson drilling the same left hook over and over and over. Bruce Lee and his jab. I mean, the world is full of these stories of perfection of rudiments. Because 90% of the time they are the foundation. The rest are just edge cases.Permalink On twitter.com
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So what do we have for design? What are those rudiments? Those fundamentals of the craft that have to be mastered? Because we spend 90% of the time there?Permalink On twitter.com
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I have some ideas for what mine might be. Yours will be different, of course: 1. Type, words, and the space around them. 2. Reaching an understanding. 3. Comfort with ambiguity and compromise.Permalink On twitter.com
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FYI: That last one takes the most practice.On twitter.com