"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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OK I'm not the most active person in the world. I do a lot of walking but thats about it. Well basically I need to improve my agility for drumming. Really starting to feel the strain these day...(wow 17 and sound like I'm 71). Any one know how to build up agility?
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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what kind of drumming? marching band or drumset etc...? and what are you trying to achieve?
 

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Practice doing a tough series of notes (all over the place, microcontrol, etc), and get it going faster. You'll soon discover you'll do things the fastest when you have done them before. It's like math, you suck at it at first, but once you know what to do, you do it faster and faster.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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if your looking for speed, start off slowly....go through your rudiments, such as paradiddles, they are great for building speed. during a practice, start off at say 80bpm doing paradiddles, then increase it by 2 after a few minutes. keep doing this until you cant hold them consistently and begin to fumble a bit. bring it back to where you could hold it consistently and do that for a straight 5 minutes if possible. every couple of days you will find that you will be able to raise your max by a few bpm, and by the end of the week you can gain up to 10bpm or more. remember to work on your technique as well. ALSO, the same principles you use to speed up your hands can be used on your feet. just use a routine such as this on your rudiments and you'll be good to go. the key is to start off slowly and gradually increase your speed, from single stroke rolls to flamadiddles, use this routine and you will see an increase in speed all over the set.

also practice accenting different notes so that you dont become a machine, and remember to alternate your sticking left and right so you dont become dominant on one side. if someone gives you something to play, learn to play it both ways, this is such a huge payoff in the end
 

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o yea, and remember technique for building chops...thats another thing that can take you far, once you have the technique down, things get ALOT easier, before you know it you'll be maxing out your metronome. here's a really good website that i go to when i need some tips and pointers:

www.tigerbill.com
 
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