During the performance week, I unfortunately didn't get many chances to play kit, other than playing snare in folk group on Monday, every other day seemed to have clashing workshops which meant that I missed out on some practical groups. I attended the Jazzy Lecture which helped with understanding when some deadlines were and clarifying what we had to do to meet the criteria, although I found some of the theory pretty hard and I felt like it was quite far on from what we are actually doing in theory class, having to know this year how to score out pieces in different keys and for different instruments for assignments comes as a bit of a shock to the system. Unfortunately there is only room for three kit players in Jazz band, so I missed out on this as well. The drum and bass workshop was very interesting and gave me some new ideas in ways of playing, but as of yet I have only been able to really try these out in my own time at home, as I don't seem to be getting many opportunities to play in college.
During the holiday, Jordan Linton and I had a day in the studio to try out recording some drum videos which went very well, it was good just having the studio between the two of us as we work together well and I think any more people would have just made it very rushed and crowded.
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