[drumming diary] Learning Curve

It sorta goes without saying that, if you've got a dozen or so songs to learn for a gig, and you're procrastinating terribly, that the last two will have lots of crazy stops and starts and half-bar turnarounds and whatnot.

Doesn't it? And if you're a songwriter who hires local backing bands, shouldn't you avoid that sort of thing?

The next couple of days will be an interesting test of whether or not I'm as good as I tend to think I am.