Josh
Recommended minutes to practice: Enjoy your trip!! Before I see you next, try to figure out the next song you want to learn.
What to practice: “Spaceman” by the Killers, “Sunflower” by Post Malone
How to practice it most effectively: try to review these songs once before our next lesson to jog your memory.
How parents can support practice: help Josh pick his next song!
Shayne
Recommended minutes to practice: I know Shayne doesn’t have a drum set to practice on yet, so I’d recommend just listening to some songs he might want to try out.
How parents can support practice: Help Shayne pick some new songs for next week. We have been having a lot of fun playing along to songs like “Iron Man” so far.
Noah
Recommended minutes to practice: try to review this song, especially the structure and the kick pattern at least once or twice this week.
What to practice: work on playing through the song and smoothing out the changes in structure! Come up with some fun fills or transitions if you’d like as well.
How to practice it most effectively: focus on the sections that challenge you the most – fills, complicated kick patterns.
Finn
Recommended minutes to practice: review “clint eastwood” at least once this week and try to think of a new song to play!
What to practice: play along to the songs we’ve been working on – “Yellow,” “The Abominable Snow Cone,” and “Clint Eastwood”
How to practice it most effectively: try to read along to the music I’ve written for “Clint Eastwood”
How parents can support practice: help Finn come up with a new song to start learning next week – something with some variation and challenge preferably.
Mateo
Recommended minutes to practice: I know school can be busy at this time of year – if you can work in some time to review our songs this week that would be great.
What to practice: work on the fills for “Your Love,” as well as keeping up the endurance with your kick pedal and your right hand on the ride cymbal.
How to practice it most effectively: practice just playing fast on the kick – try to see what works for you to be able to play double strokes on the kick quickly. Also, the song is very fast at 100% speed, and I think you should figure out how to play the grooves in a way where you don’t necessarily need to play every kick note, but can still maintain the overall feel of the song.
Jared
Recommended minutes to practice: try to find some time to internalize and get familiar with the fills we worked on this week.
What to practice: listen along to the song and try to be able to play the fills as they come along, especially the new ones on the last page that we just learned. Also review the groove for the chorus (Specifically those hihats).
How to practice it most effectively: break down the feel of each fill, and figure out how to recreate them in a way that’s your own!
Koel
Recommended minutes to practice: I know midterms are around the corner, so I have 0 expectations for practicing this week. Good luck!!
What to practice: Great job with “Bring Me To Life” today! Keep working on the kick pattern for the Verse section in the song.
How to practice it most effectively: Play along to the YouTube video at 80-90% speed. Isolate and break down the individual grooves that are the most difficult, especially the “Verse” section with the complicated kick patter.