Sebastian How many minutes to practice: 15-30mins What to practice: This week Sebastian I want you to play 8-8-16 and Stick Control Exercise every day as well as working on the beat for Lesson 2 beats and reading. How to practice effectively: Good work today Sebastian! If you can see if you can get a hold of the book we're using, its [...]
Sebastian How many minutes to practice: 15-30mins What to practice: This week Sebastian I want you to play 8-8-16 and Stick Control Exercise every day as well as working on the beat for Lesson 1 at a faster tempo. How to practice effectively: Each day I want you to warm up by playing some 8-8-16 and working on your full/legato stroke. Focus [...]
Jonathan Recommended amount of practice time: 30 mins a day What to practice: This week Jonathan I want you to practice Peters Etude 1 with doubles and the Amen Break How to practice effectively: Good work with the Peters Etude this week. For this next week try making the sticking for the 16th notes RRLL and then any combination of notes will follow [...]
Jonathan Recommended amount of practice time: 30 mins a day What to practice: This week Jonathan I want you to practice Peters Etude 1, and the Amen Break How to practice effectively: Great job this past week, for next lesson focus on working through the Peters Etude and don't forget to count where you need it! And then also work on the Amen [...]
Lucas How many minutes to practice: 15-30 What to practice: This week Lucas I want you to work on playing Another One Bites the Dust with the music. How to practice effectively: What I would do this week Lucas is focus on building up the beat every time you practice instead of just trying to do it all at once. First [...]
Jonathan Recommended amount of practice time: 30 mins a day What to practice: This week Jonathan I want you to practice the Lesson 12 rhythm, Peters Etude 1, and the Lesson 14 beats. How to practice effectively: Good job with the Lesson 12 rhythm, just iron it out a little better and keep counting! Same goes for the Peters Etude. The Lesson [...]
Sebastian How many minutes to practice: 15-30 What to practice: This week Sebastian I want you to work on the first 4 lines of the Stick Control Exercise as well as all of Lesson 1. How to practice effectively: Really great work today! For the stick control exercise, remember to play it all with a nice full stroke that starts and ends [...]
Sebastian How many minutes to practice: 15-30 What to practice: This week Sebastian I want you to work on the stroke exercise that we worked on as well as this Stick Control Exercise. How to practice effectively: For the stroke exercise remember that it comes in 4 parts. Part 1: two full strokes starting and stopping way up high, turning from the [...]
Jonathan Recommended amount of practice time: 30 mins a day What to practice: This week Jonathan I want you to practice the Lesson 12 rhythm and the Lesson 13 beats. How to practice effectively: For the Lesson 12 rhythm, remember that ties add the value of the second note to the first, combining their lengths. So effectively the second note is kind [...]
Lucas How many minutes to practice: 15-30 What to practice: This week Lucas I want you to work on the Lesson 6 beats again doing them at least two times through and writing the counts the bass drum notes fall on underneath the notes. How to practice effectively: Good work so far with this Lucas, it just needs a little bit [...]