Jack Warmups: --Tragically Hip: 50 Mission Cap --AJR: Bang! Joan Jett: I Love Rock 'n Roll --Good work listening and following along with this song --Next time, let's try getting creative and filling in some of the natural gaps in the song Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Using this alphabet, create three-letter words --Count and play the words in steady rhythm [...]
Lila Warmups: --8 on a Hand --Single strokes --Double strokes --Paradiddles Review of grip: good. Keep skin contact with stick Basic Beat Level 2** Step 1) Count "1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + " Step 2) Play the Hihat with your Right Hand (RH) on all the counts Step 3) Add in the Bass Drum with your Right [...]
Nova--xylo day Warmups: --C Major Scale and Arpeggio (C-E-G-c-G-E-C) --Now, add in G and F major scales (on handout). Note that they each have one accidental (black key) Cirone Book: "Step 7" ex. 1-2 *** --Great work on Step 6! --Learn these exercises in the same way: singing the note names aloud as you play them Ear training: pitch matching [...]
Lila - Great first lesson today! Congratulations. Warmups: --8 on a Hand --Single strokes --Double strokes --Paradiddles Technique: the grip and playing position (V-shape, dribbling the basket ball, backs of hands facing up) Basic Beat Level 1 Step 1) Count "1 2 3 4" Step 2) Play the Hihat with your Right Hand (RH) on all the counts Step 3) [...]
Great to see you again everyone! I'm back from England and had a great time subbing for the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Midsummer Night's Dream at the Barbican. Click here to see some onstage concert footage! You'll see me and Harriet Riley, the two percussionists on the show, following along with the actors on stage, and playing all kinds [...]
Josh, Jan 7 Warm ups: warming up our hands and wrists by stretching Build up the groove for I Had Some Help by playing only the snare, then adding the kick, then adding the hihat. Always count yourself in out loud “1 2 here I go” so you play in time Start the metronome at 95. Play the groove at [...]
Reminder: The next three lessons will be with Thomas while I'm away. Happy holidays and new year! See you when I'm back (Jan 11th lessons). Jack Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Practice four letter words (See the handout from today for two examples), try to come up with some of your own! 1) spell the word and write it out with [...]
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 [...]