From today’s #drumming practice at a local music studio here in the #Itabashi Ward of #Tokyo - self-studying the intro fills for “Strawberry Fields Forever” (this is the easiest part of the whole song).

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Today’s quick #drumming lesson update: Now starting to use a fourth limb (left foot for opening/closing the hi-hat). Things are getting more complex and I love it. 🥁 (Drumming teacher playing bass in the background).

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Drumming Practice, January 24, 2026 At my local Tokyo music studio in Hasune, Itabashi Ward, I did my first practice of 2026 today. Re-capping some of the 16th-note accents from the last lesson.

One of my 2026 resolutions is to continue to learn #drumming. Last Saturday, I went to practice at my local studio in the #Itabashi Ward of #Tokyo - it was a bit of a warm-up, and exploring ways to drum along to "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster The People.

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One topic of today’s #drumming lesson was orchestration, i.e. distributing fills across different parts of the kit. Great fun. Here is a #video with a very short example of a tune off of “Abbey Road”.

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Short clip of today’s #drumming practice at my neighborhood studio. I worked on limb independence and hi-hat articulation; here is a short clip of playing along to “Wonderwall”.

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Short clip from today’s #drumming lesson in Komagome, #Tokyo.

Practicing some 16th note accents playing along to a classic #Beatles track. Steadily improving my limb independence. Happy. 😊

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Short clip from today’s #drumming practice at a neighborhood studio. I finally was able to keep up with the speed of Wilson Pickett’s “Land of 1000 Dances”. 🎶

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Happy Sunday from #Tokyo!

Rainy and unpleasantly humid today, but in the afternoon I went to the local sound studio for some drumming practice. Here is a short clip of me drumming along to Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off”.

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Two Hours of Drumming Practice, July 20, 2025 Today I went for some drumming practice. I recently discovered a rental music studio just two subway stops from my place, and I registered as a member today.

New on my #blog: Short write-up of yesterdays #drumming practice with some photos and three short videos of songs that I tried drumming along with.

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Short clip from today’s #drumming practice, when I played along to Deep Purple’s “Perfect Strangers”.

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Exterior of “Air Sound Studio” in Hasune, Itabashi Ward, Tokyo

Decoration detail in the lobby of “Air Sound Studio” in Hasune, Itabashi Ward, Tokyo.

Still life from the stairwell at “Air Sound Studio” in Hasune, Itabashi Ward, Tokyo.

During today’s practice at “Air Sound Studio” in Hasune, Itabashi Ward, Tokyo (screen cap from video).

Finally practiced #drumming again today. Going to my to my usual practice location in Ochanomizu is too much in this scorching heat, but I found a nice small studio just two subway stops from where I live. Happy. 😃

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After almost a month, I finally could go to #drumming lesson again today. I started to work on “Billy Jean”, and the teacher gave me some good hints and advice. First time I used the hi-hat pedal, too.

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Some Drumming Practice, June 15, 2025 I wasn’t able to practice drumming recently, due to first being sick and then rather busy, but today I finally could go to the rental studio again.

Three videos from yesterday's short #drumming practice are up on a new #blog post now. I tried to play along to
- "Sparkle" by Tatsuro Yamashita
- "Nan-Nan" by Fujii Kaze
- "One" by U2

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Happy Sunday from #Tokyo! Went to the rental studio for some #drumming practice earlier - unfortunately, it was only available for 1 hour today. Here is a short #video of me trying my hand at Tatsuro Yamashita’s “Sparkle”.

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Today’s #drumming lesson sample: “Sparkle” by Tatsuro Yamashita.
(Interesting contrast between the song and my Kurt Cobain t-shirt)

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Two Hours of Drumming Practice, May 18, 2025 Today, I did two hours of drumming practice at the usual rental studio in Ochanomizu, Tokyo, in order to work on some 16th-note beats from the previous lesson.

Blog post about today’s #drumming practice, with seven short sample clips, now up on my #website.

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Fun moment from today’s #drumming practice at a rental studio in Ochanomizu, #Tokyo (I also practiced the 16th-note patterns I was supposed to; may share a link later once the blog post is up).

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Third Drumming Lesson and Sunday Afternoon Things I went to my third drumming lesson today at Komagome in Tokyo. Afterwards, I walked to Sugamo, from where I took the subway to meet my wife for a cafe lunch.

Yesterday's write-up now on my blog: www.norbertwoehnl.com/singles/koma...

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A short clip from today’s #drumming lesson in Komagome, #Tokyo - the focus was on learning a couple 16th-note beats, which was more challenging than the 8th-note beats from last time. Looking forward to practicing more. 🥁

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Two Hours of Drumming Practice, May 3, 2025 I went for two hours of drumming practice today at the same rental studio in Ochanomizu, Tokyo, as last time.

Blog post with 4 video samples from today's drumming practice is up on my site:

(1) "Esora" by Mr.Children
(2) "The Flyer" by Saga
(3) "We Will Rock You" by Queen
(4) "Come Together" by The Beatles

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A fun (and not too difficult) moment from today’s #drumming practice. Great for stress relief 👍

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After the medical checkup, and a cafe lunch and reading break in Ochanomizu, I went to the rental studio this afternoon for #drumming practice. Here I’m trying to play to Paul McCartney’s “Fine Line”.

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I went to my #drumming lesson again today. The focus was on learning variations of 8th-note beats. Here I’m trying one of the patterns for the first time along to a Backstreet Boys song.

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