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December 2nd Assignments

Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: Work through getting the next couple lines of the coordination exercise, and next week we'll try it with some songs so find some you like either from the playlist or use two songs you like with similar tempos. Also work through the verse and pre-chorus sections of Violent Sun in the transcription [...]

2020-12-03T00:16:09-05:00December 3rd, 2020|

November 25th Assignments

Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: Next week I would like to hear the 3rd line of the coordination exercise with two songs of differing tempos, you can either use the first two songs in this playlist or use two songs you like with similar tempos. In addition work on the beat for Violent Sun How to practice [...]

2020-11-25T22:56:44-05:00November 25th, 2020|

November 18th Assignments

Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: Next week I would like to hear the coordination exercise with two songs of differing tempos, you can either use the first two songs in this playlist or use two songs you like with similar tempos. Also I would like you to run through 10:15 Saturday Night as well. How to practice [...]

2020-11-18T22:10:30-05:00November 18th, 2020|

November 11th Assignments

Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: This week Ella I want you to practice the coordination exercise everyday to either this song playlist or some of your own songs that are around the same tempo. Shoot for trying to be able to play through all the patterns at aa slow and medium tempo. In addition, see if you [...]

2020-11-11T22:20:15-05:00November 11th, 2020|

November 4th Assignments

Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: This week Ella I want you to play this coordination exercise everyday to this song playlist. In addition I want you to start picking up what you can of the beat to Arcade Fire's The Suburbs. How to practice effectively: The goal of this coordination exercise is to get used to playing [...]

2020-11-05T21:55:17-05:00November 5th, 2020|

October 28th Assignments

Hi everybody, sorry I didn't get to posting real assignments this week, just take a look here for the stuff that we'll be going over tomorrow! Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: Take a look at the Lesson 7 Reading here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1firIXZ547MrxH0ia5UoTjsqMXXzV1s4k/view?usp=sharing How to practice effectively: We will look over the reading and go through it with the [...]

2020-11-03T06:49:00-05:00November 3rd, 2020|

10/21/20 Assignments

Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: Add feet coordination to the Lesson 6 reading exercise (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zp6B4iwsqtoJYc8r3wrxPkfXZNtU3Zvc/view?usp=sharing) and to the Lesson 4 Sticking and Beats page (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1alyo2YFt3lUO9pcJ9F7GyGaG9rC-Gs-1/view?usp=sharing). How to practice effectively: So for the Lesson 6 stuff, do the kick on 1 and the hi-hat on 2, and then for the 3/4 stuff do the kick on 1 and [...]

2021-09-03T05:44:45-04:00October 21st, 2020|

Ella

Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: This week I want you to go over the sheet on stickings and beats as well as some of the fills on Last Kiss. Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1alyo2YFt3lUO9pcJ9F7GyGaG9rC-Gs-1/view?usp=sharing How to practice effectively: Like what we talked about with building technical vocabulary, I want you to engrain these patterns in your hands so [...]

2020-10-17T23:49:36-04:00October 17th, 2020|

Assignments 10/7/20

Hey guys, really sorry I dropped the ball on posting the assignments this week. You guys sounded great last week and I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Excited to work on some new stuff with you guys this week! Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: This week Ella take a look at the Sticking and Beats page [...]

2021-09-06T05:58:40-04:00October 13th, 2020|

September 30th Assignments

Great job again this week everybody! Sorry to be late on these assignments, but there's nothing here you can't make progress on before Wednesday! Ella Great job again this week Ella, its super cool to see you continuously improve on Breezeblocks! Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: Keep playing through Breezeblocks but we are going to transition to start [...]

2020-10-04T10:53:10-04:00October 4th, 2020|
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