Will- Practice Ride, especially going in and out of the fills. Try to be able to play it from memory for next week! Also, take a look at the subdivison sheet and try moving the accents onto the toms. Elliot- This week, work on the subdivision sheet with your feet marking the time. If you're in 4/4 time, add the [...]
Hey everyone, thanks a lot for working hard over the week, everyone sounds great! Here is what I'd like you to work on this week. Ella- Try to be able to play through the second line around half tempo. Try looking up the video on youtube and playing it at 50% speed to practice along. If the sheet music isn't [...]
Hi everyone! Welcome and welcome back!!! So glad to see my returning students and to meet the new ones, it will be a great year! Here are some things I would like you to look over in order to prepare for our next lesson. Ella- Work on the Black Parade intro so it is comfortable. Ty to work it up [...]
Hi everyone! Great work today! It has been great to meet all of you this year and you've been doing fantastic work. I hope you've all had as much fun as I have! There is one more lesson left in the year (aside from make-ups) but I'll be out of town so you'll be with Rob next week. Show him [...]
Hi everyone! Great work this week as always, here is what I would like you to continue on with. Ella- Continue on with Girlfriend in a Coma and decide on a new song, I think we're just about ready to move on! To put on the finishing touches, listen to the song a bunch of times to learn where all [...]
Hi everyone! great job today, I was thrilled to see you all put in a lot of work and improved greatly. Here is what I would like you to do in order to continue this progress. Ella- Work up the beat in full with the right feel like we worked on today. Start at 60 bpm and see if you [...]
Hey everyone! Great work today all around, seeing some awesome improvements. Here's what I would like you to work on this week. Ella- Bring the Girlfriend in a Coma beat up to speed, don't worry about the offbeat accents. Do what we did with the metronome, start at a comfortable tempo (start around 80 this week) then cut it in [...]
Hey everyone! Hears a reminder of what we talked about today. Ella- Work on Girlfriend in a Coma beat nice and slow and try to move it forward throughout the week. The feel of it is getting really good!! Keep that up and it'll be killer pretty soon. Also, take a look at the fills I wrote out and see [...]
Ella- Work on the first beat of Girlfriend in a Coma. Try to get the right feel with the accents on the offbeats. At first, try with no accent, then add it in. As always, start super slow and gradually come up in speed. If you can get to the tempo of the song that's great, if not, better off [...]
Ella - Listen to Girlfriend in a Coma and play along so you can learn the rhythms and where the breaks are. Work on the tip tap just by doing it along to a metronome slowly, and building up the tempo over time. Start around 60 bpm and try to get towards 120 by next week. You'll be with Rob [...]