Great drum weekend with Corey. He arrived late Friday night and stayed until late Sunday. We spent the weekend looking through old Modern Drummer mags playing music for each other and of course drumming.
We listenned to a Buddy Guy album I'd never heard before, it's called Sweet Tea. We did it front to back... hardly spoke at all... it's amazing. We also did Steve Reich, Six Marimbas, and Drumming. Got into a really fun 5/4 groove. Must have gone on for 5 minutes or so...
Saturday we dropped in on Shankar's Saturday afternoon all levels class. It was quite fun... though not a typical ashtanga class. Lots of prep/research poses and tons of alignment cues a la Hart Lazer/Iyengar. It offered a good working over...