Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Aidan Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: The jazz/swing snare drum exercises that I wrote down for you as well as the main beat from Chameleon by Herbie Hancock. How to practice it most effectively: Remember that the most important part of the beat is [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Aidan Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: The jazz/swing snare drum exercises that I wrote down for you. How to practice it most effectively: Practice slowly and focus on feeling the pulse of the beat against the rhythm of the snare drum. First, play just [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Aidan Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: The jazz/swing snare drum exercises that I wrote down for you. How to practice it most effectively: Practice slowly and focus on feeling the pulse of the beat against the rhythm of the snare drum. First, play just [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: Paradise by Coldplay as well as the rhythms that we have been working on. How to practice it most effectively: Pay close attention to the two fast bass drum notes in the middle of the beat from Paradise. [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Aidan Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: 16th note beats with accents and the beat from Chameleon by Herbie Hancock. How to practice it most effectively: Focus on getting the right motion in your elbow and wrist and maintaining that motion as consistently as possible. [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Aidan Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Rolls, flams, drags, and paradiddles on snare drum as well as your xylophone test for school. How to practice it most effectively: When practicing your drum rudiments, always strive for accuracy and consistency. It is very important that [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Aidan Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Drum rudiments: roll, flam, drag, flam tap, and paradiddle. How to practice it most effectively: Practice each rudiment the way that we did in your lesson. With the roll, focus on getting an equal number of bounces from [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Aidan Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Rolls and drags on snare drum as well as sight-reading on xylophone. How to practice it most effectively: Try to smooth out the sound of your drum rolls by relaxing your arms and not trying to play too [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Aidan Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Sight-reading snare drum and xylophone music. How to practice it most effectively: I know that you don’t have a xylophone to practice at home, but it would be great if you could at least work on some of [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Aidan Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Jazz/swing rhythms and the G Major Technical Exercises from the xylophone book. How to practice it most effectively: When practicing the jazz rhythms, be sure that the ride cymbal and hi-hat parts are the most prominent and that [...]