Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Alexy Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: The end of the bridge from “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple. How to practice it most effectively: Practice the four bars at the end of the bridge. Work on the fill that is in the middle [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: Playing the drum roll soft to loud to soft, and the fill from the second verse of  “Arabella” by the Arctic Monkeys. How to practice it most effectively: With the snare drum roll, focus on keeping the volume [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: The drum roll and the paradiddle and the chorus from “Arabella” by the Arctic Monkeys. How to practice it most effectively: With the snare drum roll, practice it first at a variety of different volumes: soft, medium, and [...]

Hi everyone, Next week I will be out of town so you will have Gordon as a substitute teacher. I will fill him in on what you’ve been working on and what your homework is for the week. Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: The two [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: The beats that you worked on with David and the beginning of “Arabella” by the Arctic Monkeys. How to practice it most effectively: Take your time with the intro to “Arabella.” It’s a slow and groovy beat, so [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: #21-25 from the “Lesson 5” sheet. How to practice it most effectively: Try to hear the rhythm of the beat in your head before you try to play it. You want to be able to hear in your [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: #1-12 from the “Lesson 5” sheet. How to practice it most effectively: Start by reviewing all the rhythms that we worked on at the beginning of your lesson. Then practice #1-12 on the lesson 5 sheet by identifying [...]

Hi everyone, This was the last week of regular lessons before the holiday. Next week some of you will have make-up lessons. You should have gotten an e-mail from the admin team about this. Please call the school to confirm your make-up lesson. Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: #13-20 from the “Lesson 4” sheet and the rhythm review exercises that we worked on. How to practice it most effectively: Review the concepts of rhythm that we have been talking about in your last couple of lessons. [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: #1-12 from the “Lesson 4” sheet that Pino gave you and the verse beat from Arabella How to practice it most effectively: Take time to read carefully each of the exercises from Lesson 4. Count them out loud [...]