Matus nailed it.

If you have do do lots of head changes quickly, it may help a lot, but when it comes to tuning, you're still going to have to seat and tune the head such that the sound at every lug matches.

Sharpen the spurs too. If it worked fine up to now, on the same rug, that's probably the only changed variable.

So true, given the fact there are a very limited number of possible 16th note rhythms. Once you internalize the "blocks", everything really just falls into place. Particularly with drum notation, it's pretty much a grid based on 16th notes. Like reading or writing any language, you get be...

Somebody has mentioned transcription. This is key, because writing is a great way to enhance one's ability to read any language. You'll internalize various rhythmic phrases, and get used to thinking in terms of whole verses, choruses, etc. A good thing to do is to transcribe, say, a tune a week. I'd...