This week my percussion warm-ups deal with taking a steady rhythm (whump-whump-whump), doubling the speed (wiggle-wiggle-wiggle), and then returning to the initial speed (whump).
That is life, isn’t it? So rarely are we afforded graceful transitions in between the busy and the slow sections, and it’s so difficult to hold things steady as we move between speeds. With our move, my schedule went from warp speed to quiet, and I stumbled pretty hard. I had found such joy in going fast and working hard. Without that validation, I felt like I had lost all my steadiness. Now that my schedule has relaxed and I’m rebuilding, I’m trying hard to lay down some steady underpinnings of the work I want to do. It’s hard to carve out the time I need to practice and write, but keeping a steady rhythm of creating art away from gigs and teaching makes my brain feel calm.
Hopefully I can keep this whump steady when the wiggling starts again.
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