Hello everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Ella Great preparation last week! Recommended minutes to practice: 45 minutes per day What to practice: Base Drum Exercise. Rudiment #4, and 6. Please try #3 if you have time. How to practice: For the rudiment #4, try bouncing the stick as long as you can without controlling it. For the [...]
Hello Everyone, This is the assignment for this week, Nathaniel Recommended minutes to practice: 30-40 minutes per day What to practice: The exercise from Nov 10th. Smooth Criminal How to practice: I suggest you to focus on the hight hat pattern that I wrote down on your note book on Nov 10. Start with a slow tempo and increase it [...]
Hello everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Ella Recommended minutes to practice: 45 minutes per day What to practice: Base Drum Exercise. Rudiment #2, 4, and 6. Please try #3 if you have time. How to practice: For the rudiments #2, say "pa-ka-la-ta---" or "tri-pa-la-ta---" etc. For the rudiments #3, say "pa-ka-la-pa-ka-la-ta------" or "tri-pa-la-tri-pa-la-ta------" etc. Speaking the rhythm [...]
Hello Everyone, This is the assignment for this week, Samuel Recommended minutes to practice: 30-40 minutes per day What to practice: Rudiment #6-10 on the snare drum. C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab major scales in one octave. Pick one of your favorite piano piece and play the melody on the xylophone. How to practice: Rudiment... Set your metronome quoter equal [...]
Hello everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Ella Recommended minutes to practice: 30 minutes per day What to practice: Rudiment #2, 4, and 6. Please try #3 if you have time. "Should I Stay Or Should I Go". How to practice: For the rudiments #2, say "pa-ka-la-ta---" or "tri-pa-la-ta---" etc. For the rudiments #3, say "pa-ka-la-pa-ka-la-ta------" or [...]
Hello Everyone, IMPORTANT NOTICE I will be away this weekend, and you will have one of the ABC instructor, David on November 17th. Please prepare to show what you have been working on and bring some relevant questions. This is the assignment for this week, Nathaniel Recommended minutes to practice: 30 minutes a day What to practice: There are two [...]
Hello everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween night! Here are your practice assignments for this week: Ella Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Two drum beats from "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" that we worked on in your lesson. How to practice: First of all, practice very slowly and make [...]
Hello Everyone, IMPORTANT NOTICE I will be away on October 27th, and you will have a wonderful drummer, Edvan next Saturday. Please prepare to show what you have been working on and bring some relevant questions. This is the assignment for this week, Samuel Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Rudiment #1-10 on the snare [...]
Hello everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Ella Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Drum beats #1-#8 from last week and "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" How to practice: The new drum patterns on "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" are slightly tricky. I suggest you to practice your hands [...]
Hello everyone, Here are your practice assignments for this week: Ella Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: New drum beats #1-#8 How to practice: first of all, I suggest you to sing the base-drum pattern BEFORE you play. Second, play only the base-drum pattern you sung. Finally, play the all parts include the High-Hat and [...]