Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Sabrina Recommended minutes to practice: 1-2 hours per day What to practice: Snare rudiments (double stroke roll and flams), the stick control exercises, and the first line of Drums Corps on Parade. How to practice it most effectively: With the double stoke roll, first practice getting your sticks to bounce. [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes per day What to practice: The 6/8 drum beats that I wrote down in your book. How to practice it most effectively: Count the beats out loud using one of the two counting methods that we discussed: “1 2 3 4 5 6” [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Nate Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: Drum fills, syncopated rhythms, and 16th-note drum beats (all in your book). How to practice it most effectively: Practice the drum fills in alternation with the drum beats that you are familiar with. Play the drum beat three [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Aidan Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: Syncopated drum beats that I wrote down in your book. How to practice it most effectively: Just like with everything else, going slowly and counting are the most helpful ways to approach this. With the drum beats, identify [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes per day What to practice: The 12 drum beats from the sheet I gave you as well as the two-bar rhythms from your book. How to practice it most effectively: Count the rhythms and the beats out loud before you try to play [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes per day What to practice: “Paradise City” by Guns ’n’ Roses How to practice it most effectively: Isolate the spots that give you the most trouble, particularly the end of the intro the bridge, and the long fills at the end of the song. [...]
Hi everyone, Sorry for being so late getting out the homework posts this week. Here are your assignments for this week. Due to a new school policy, the homework posts will now have a slightly different format. Aidan Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: “Paradise” by Coldplay and the new rhythm and accent exercises that [...]
Hi everyone, Sorry for being so late getting out the homework posts this week. I want to let you know that this week I have an engagement that I must attend in the evening so I will only be at the school until 4:30. If your lesson is after 4:30, you will have David Zada will be covering those lessons [...]
Hi everyone, Due to a new school policy, the format of these homework posts will be a little different from now on. As usual, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask me directly. Harrison Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes per day What to practice: The new drum beats that we worked on in your [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Sabrina With your snare solo, focus on the dynamics and tempo during your practice time. Try to make the crescendos and diminuendos as gradual as possible, and the sudden dynamic changes as abrupt as possible. Also, make a habit of practicing with a metronome every day. Start with the metronome [...]