Myles Goals for this year: --Xylophone and Reading --Learn 5 songs this year Warmups: --Flam Paradiddles (rL-R-L-L lR-L-R-R) --8 on a Hand, goal tempo= 130bpm using a metronome (free app download, or purchase one at a music store) John Mayer: Gravity --Please learn this by ear this week (it's brand new, but very simple) --Can you identify how to count [...]
Nova Goals this year!: --Nova has a xylophone now! --Gary Burton and Chick Corea: four mallet technique --Hamilton musical: drum set stuff --Bloom from Scott Pilgrim --Photo ID Remi Wolf(?); Sabrina Carpenter; Call Me By Your Name; Over it by Dux Warmups: --Stick Control first 13 exercises Remi Wolf: Photo ID --Intro fill (3e a4e+ ) --Main beat: Basic beat [...]
Josh New song:*** Back In Black by AC/DC Working on everything up until the guitar solo See chart in frequently used folder Nova Xylophone: --C and G major scales --Piano Adventures page 48 I will be posting Nova's 7-week summer protocol in their Google Drive folder later this week! Jonah Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man --Four new measures: these are complicated! [...]
Nova Xylophone: --C Major Scale and Arpeggio (C-E-G-c-G-E-C) --Piano Adventures p 46-47 (counting in 3) Myles Survivor: Eye of the Tiger --Great! --Now you've actually learned all the music, it just repeats the different parts you've learned. Keep playing along and we'll be finished with this song next week! Xylophone --Review of C major scale, identifying the musical alphabet --Page [...]
Jack Zelda themes (Talus Battle; Guardian Battle) Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet (click here to access - bookmakr for future use) --Practice clapping out the different letters from Q-X --As a bonus, begin on th letters A-P (note: these are counted in four as opposed to 3 like Q-X are) Jared Warmups (1min/ea) --Linear triplets: hi tom-->mid tom-->snare goal tempo 190bpm [...]
Myles Survivor: Eye of the Tiger --good. Let's focus on the road map! Two strategies: listening to the song, and reading along. Work on both! --See the new section on the sheet in google drive (chorus and post-chorus) and maintain those sections for next week --Get the fill at the end of the chorus up to speed --Please print the [...]
Jack Drums: "We will Rock You" Djembe: Zelda themes (Talus Battle; Guardian Battle) Counting in 3 "1 2 3" --On the djembe, we practiced playing the low tone on "1". How would we do that on the drumset? --We can come up with many different patterns in 3. How many can you make that use a low sound on "1"? [...]
Myles Survivor: Eye of the Tiger --good. Let's focus on the road map! Two strategies: listening to the song, and reading along. Work on both! --See the new section on the sheet in google drive (chorus and post-chorus) and maintain those sections for next week --Get the fill at the end of the chorus up to speed Refresh Alfred Solo [...]
Jack Drums: "We will Rock You" Djembe: Zelda themes (Talus Battle; Guardian Battle) Jared Warmups (1min/ea) --Linear triplets: hi tom-->mid tom-->snare goal tempo 190bpm --Triplet ex. (Goal Tempo=130) --Sixteenth-Note Exercise (goal tempo = 100) --Singles, Doubles, Paradiddles - goal tempo: 130bpm Stevie Wonder: Superstition --play everything up until the breakdown, we'll learn that big fill next week --Please print*** Josh [...]
Koel Warmups (1min each): --Triplet Ex. 120bpm --Sixteenth-note Ex. 100bpm --***Ride pattern exercise with basic beat (RH ride-->RH hihat-->LH ride-->LH hihat) Syncopation --Good work on the 20 bar exercise! --Learn ex. 1 from p33 (in the google drive) playing the written line on the snare with the swing beat underneath*** Van Halen: Jump --Add in the drum fills at the [...]