Reminder: I'll be away until January. Lessons will continue with Jasmine as usual until I return. Happy holidays, and see you in the new year! Josh Warm-ups: --Hand and foot coordination: playing steady beats on the bass drum, play singles, doubles, and paradiddles with your hands on the snare drum. There should be two snare notes (ti-ti; eighth notes) to [...]
Jack Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Today we spelled words from our new favourite song! Using the example I sent home with you today, and the rhythmic alphabet page, try writing out and playing some new words! --Play the resulting words along with "In Too Deep" Tragically Hip: 50 Mission Cap --Learning the beat (Bass-Snare-Bass-Snare) and playing along with the song [...]
Josh Post Malone: I Had Some Help --Good work on this! --To help get that main beat coordinated at performance speed, isolate the "2 + 3" portion of it, making sure to line up the bass drums with the hihats. When isolated, you do a great job of this at high speeds. Can you bring the same coordination to the [...]
Jack Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Spelling "JACK" and "DYLAN" Using these words, play along to Sum 41: In too Deep Tragically Hip: 50 Mission Cap --Learning the beat (Bass-Snare-Bass-Snare) and playing along with the song while I play piano Xylophone --Learning the musical alphabet (ABCDEFG) --Visually identifying C on the keyboard --Spelling "Dad" and "Egg" on the keyboard Koel Warmups [...]
Myles Drumset Musician p81 ex. 9-12 --Polish these off this week ***PLEASE PRINT***Weezer: My Name is Jonas --Drill the intro and main groove on p.1 --See worksheet for explanation of new bass pattern: master each exercise and then we'll put it in context next week --For next week, we'll warm up with some of these fills (V1 out fill) Xylophone: [...]
Josh Post Malone: I Had Some Help --Practice Visual Drums #9 in your personal folder to learn the main beat in this song --The pre-chorus fill (on the handout) goes flam-bass flam-bass flam-bass flam-bass on all eighth notes ("1+2+3+4+"). Practice this to make it comfortable, and slowly build up the speed to match the song Myles - Xylophone week(Drums next [...]
Dearest Saturday drum students, I mentioned this to as many of you as I could this past weekend, but I just wanted to make sure you are all aware that I'll be away this coming Saturday, Nov. 16th, at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis. My colleague Thomas Li will be filling in for me, and lessons will [...]
Jack Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Learn each letter in the "binary" part of the alphabet (counting 1-2-3-4) --try building small words! Using these words, play along to Sum 41: In too Deep Tragically Hip: 50 Mission Cap --Learning the beat (Bass-Snare-Bass-Snare) and playing along with the song while I play piano Xylophone --Learning the musical alphabet (ABCDEFG) --Visually identifying C [...]
Aleksander Warmups (30 sec each) ***at metronome=120: --Single strokes (R L R L...) --Double Strokes (R R L L....) --Paradiddles (RLRR LRLL...) --Basic Beat level 3.5 ----Make sure that when two instruments play together they land precisely at the same time Drumset Musician p12 ex. 8-15 a) ACDC: Back in Black--everything up until 2:49 --Bridge section Josh 20241105 See new [...]
Jack Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Learn each letter in the "binary" part of the alphabet (counting 1-2-3-4) --try building small words! Tragically Hip: 50 Mission Cap --Learning the beat (Bass-Snare-Bass-Snare) and playing along with the song while I play piano Xylophone --Learning the musical alphabet (ABCDEFG) --Visually identifying C on the keyboard --Spelling "Dad" and "Egg" on the keyboard Nova [...]