The Drill Sheets Are Real Now
Quick note on something I’ve been building: a drill library for the French rudimental vocabulary. Twenty-two sheets, one rudiment each, one page each.
The French name, the American equivalent where one exists — six of them have none at all — the figure engraved out in strict rhythm, a tempo ladder, and a line to log the day you recorded yourself playing it. They’re designed to be printed one at a time and put on a stand, not read on a screen.
The whole thing is generated rather than drawn, which means when I get a sticking wrong — and I have seven I’m still checking — the fix rebuilds all twenty-two in about a minute.
More on where these are going soon. The short version is that they’re the working end of a much larger guide about the Tompkins etudes and the tradition they come out of.
