I wrote this 30-second solo lick, and I think it's pretty cool, so I thought I'd share it.

*.PDF: http://www.fatmattdrums.com/pdf/soupy_twist.pdf

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O9Y32YmED4

Feedback is appreciated.

Very tight! Nice....

Ha, like I've said " you stay there, so I don't look bad here"

Thanks!

But, stay where? Everything I do is for the internet now, so I'm either everywhere or nowhere, depending on how you look at it.

I just started grad school for chemical engineering, so there isn't really time for playing/teaching/writing gigs. I still have the compulsive urge to practice, and a lot of residual knowledge, ideas, and material from everything I did in North Carolina, so I'm trying to package that stuff and put out there for my former students/peers and anyone else who's interested.

Just a funny gig, and a vailed complement.

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!! That was awesome. This would have been undefeated in our solo bragging rights thread from awhile back (which I think you "won" anyway if memory serves)

The solo was awesome, but I am super impressed with your writing. Every freaking time you post something it is ridiculously awesome.

You are good! I`m liking everything I see and hear and I haven`t seen a good snare player since Rob Carson retired from solo playing. I think you could do well with a written solo for DCI level at Nationals. I like what you are doing and I have won some solo contests.

If you are busy with college and still have time to compose I would suggest that you try writng a solo or two. You may have a new business to help you in college. Can you play quads? That would also be good for you to compose for that instrument and have both snare and quad solos available.

I really appreciate the feedback, guys; that this stuff is appreciated is good motivation for me to package my licks and tricks into something substantial like a solo. I've mostly been big about warm-ups and street beats, so everything that isn't skill-specific or at 120 BPM just sits in a notebook for a rainy day. Right now I'm writing a snare drum duet for an East Carolina University music student's senior recital, and that's been a fun process of looking through years of stuff for ideas. I can't play quads though; all my quad parts are kinda samey, and I just try to get away with it.

If you like my writing, please share my website with people you know; someone's bound to find some of the material useful, and that's what I really want. I'm working on trying to get my street beats published, so that sheet music is only available on an ask-me-for-it basis, but I got a tonne of warm-ups, exercises, and stadium grooves freely accessible.

I'm also working on an annotations for the big big exercise packet I co-wrote for my alma mater's drumline. I might do some videos related to that too. Any excuse to keep the sticks in my hands.

Nice, one of my buddies just took the job as the battery instructor over there at ECU. But anyways, nice lick dude. Hands down favorite part would be the last visual at the very end. Keep drummin man.