Overall I feel that I've not only generally improved but that I have gained more confidence over time, I don't freeze when I go wrong, or speed up like I used to- I'm a bit more relaxed, my posture stays strong, I'm more in time, the tempo doesn't waver and if I go out of time I'm better at improvising myself back into time and getting the song back on track.
However, I do also feel though that some of the personal goals I set myself at the start have rather become later on projects to work on after I have figured out other bits of drumming, for example Latin drumming may be a little to far deep in unchartered waters for me to go travelling to yet, I still have quite a journey before I f can reach that properly and so on.
Other personal goals I feel I have made some progress on but maybe not enough as I should of over the time period it has been since the beginning so like other variety of genres and time signatures I have only really scratched the surface of what can be done and how they can be used effectively and I just overly feel I have more to learn and I could of learnt more in the allotted time.
I still feel my personal goals to be able to play a variety of genres comfortably and play odd time signatures with feels that fit and use them effectively. I still need to be more confident, and i still need a lot of work on my timing, transitions counting with a metronome and so on as my drumming is not as sharp as it could be and some of the fills i displace tend to be very weird at times- to the point that they fit in my head because I know the timing of them but others don't so it confuses them whilst playing and so on.
Other personal goals such as different rudiments, polyrhythms etc. I will focus on at a later date as since writing the previous entry i now feel that they are not as important at the moment as i believed them to once be.
