What a great week! Holiday pieces are sounded great! Stay warm everyone <3 Grace Sonatina Bureacratique - first scalic passage is in A major. The rest of them are modes of E major, you can tell by the D# accidental. Beethoven op. 49 no. 2 - practice the triplet LH line that begins on the 2nd beat of the triplet [...]
MYLES -Warmups (try at three speeds) 8 on a Hand Single Strokes Double stokes *Paradiddles (LRLL RLRR...) *Alfred, Lesson 6 starting next week *Drumset Musician Worksheet p. 12 *New Song: ACDC - Back in Black JONAH Triplet Exercise (Goal tempo = 110*) Sixteenth Note Exercise (goal tempo=90bpm**) *Stick Control Ex. 51-56 (120bpm) Joel Rothman Lesson 16** Lenny Kravitz: Are You [...]
Hi everyone! Thanks for the hardwork this week! Maria and Noreet, get well soon! <3 Hakim *New* Chant of the Monks - this is your first written piece with hands playing together in parallel motion. Giving the half notes (the hollow ones) 2 counts is very important. Count while you are playing. You know how to read the RH notes, not [...]
NOVA -Warmups (30 sec each) -8 on a hand -Singles; doubles; paradiddles -Roll exercise (apple-apple-watermelon-watermelon) -Ride Pattern Exercise *Alfred Lesson 5 ex. 1-8 *Taylor Swift: Blank Space (adding in hihat) *Think about new songs Xylophone *Piano Adventures p. 32-3 *Call Me Maybe JARED Padwork: Flams Flam Taps *work on speed Singles, Doubles, Paradiddles - **goal tempo: 130bpm Triplet ex. (Goal [...]
Hey everyone! Great work on the Dozen a Day exercises! This is the first week of playing Holiday themed pieces, if there is a specific carol you are interested in playing, let me know and we will work it out! The goal is to explore more than 1 holiday piece this winter. Grace Sonatina Bureaucratique - nice progress! I wrote in [...]
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Hi everyone! Hope you had awesome weeks! Hakim Bingo and Yankee Doodle - both these pieces are in Middle C position where the thumbs share middle C. Soldier of Dance - I wrote out the “chorus” of this piece for you on staff paper. I wrote the letter names on the staff so you can use directional reading. C major [...]
NOVA -Warmups (30 sec each) -8 on a hand -Singles; doubles; paradiddles -Roll exercise (apple-apple-watermelon-watermelon) -Ride Pattern Exercise Alfred Lesson 4 *Combination Exercise Worksheet: Drumset Musician p. 11 *keep working on 7 a) = get it faster and more comfortable *Taylor Swift: Blank Space (adding in hihat) Xylophone Musical Alphabet C Major Scale note reading: [...]
PROJECT FOR EVERYONE: Dozen a Day exercises Exercises can be found here and memorized. The point is not note reading, but technique. These should be played with confidence and without mistake, choose a tempo that you have a great success with. Look at your section to see which group you are assigned, and work to prepare all 12 this week. [...]
MYLES -Warmups (try at three speeds) 8 on a Hand Single Strokes Double stokes *Paradiddles (LRLL RLRR...) *Alfred, Lesson 5 - ex. 1-8* *Drumset Musician Worksheet b) #4-8 for next week please *Think of a few songs that you might like to learn (Thunderstruck) Back in Black Are You Gonna go My Way Livin' on a Prayer JONAH Triplet Exercise [...]