Jack Warmups: --Tragically Hip: 50 Mission Cap Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Practice putting the letters of your new sentence of different drums --Use the drum set notation on the bottom half of the page to help with reading which drums happen when Beatles: Ticket to Ride --Keep working on the main beat of this song! Let's try to play along [...]
Josh Warm-ups: --Hand and foot coordination (see handout): playing steady beats on the bass drum, play singles, doubles, and paradiddles with your hands on the snare drum. There should be two snare notes (ti-ti; eighth notes) to every bass drum note (ta; quarter notes) Groove Essentials Rock Groove 5 --This week, add drum fills in every fourth measure --See handout [...]
Henry Fantastic work today Henry! Here is your homework for this week: How long to practice: 5-10 minutes per day What/How to practice: Heart and Soul- amazing work on swing rhythms! Keep playing with Zaidie :) Birthday Party- Review line 2; step-wise down and up from D, fingering: 2-1-2-3. Play loud. Sandman’s Near- Review line 2; repeat each bar twice. Bar [...]
Hello! I hope you all had a fun snow day! Noreet: When warming up this week Noreet can continue to play her G Major scale hands together, pay close attention to the fingerings in as the scale descends. D Major can be played 2 octaves hands together. Practice the A Major scale hands together slowly. We are still working on [...]
Jack Warmups: --Tragically Hip: 50 Mission Cap Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Continue with our extended sentence --Be sure to count aloud while you play these rhythms Beatles: Ticket to Ride --Keep working on the main beat of this song! Let's try to play along with it next time Nova Benny Greb's Rhythmic Alphabet (in google drive): --CODE and MOON --Keep [...]
Hello! We saw some really great progress this week! Berke: We reviewed and warmed up with our scales. Practice G Major hands together, focus on the fingering particularly in the descent of the scale. We learned D Major, this scale has 2 sharps F# and C#, this can be practiced slowly hands separately this week. We played through Mozart's [...]
Lila Warmups: --8 on a Hand --Single strokes --Double strokes --Paradiddles Review of grip: good. Keep skin contact with stick Basic Beat Level 3** same as level 2, but BD plays all four beats (1, 2, 3, 4) Step 1) Count "1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + " Step 2) Play the Hihat with your Right Hand (RH) [...]
Hello Everyone! Great lessons this week! Some really exciting progress and some great first lessons with new students. See your homework and practice recommendations below! Noreet: For warm up with week, please have Noreet play all her scales hands together. Practice a two octave G Major scale at 85BPM on the metronome, two octaves of D Major slowly, and one [...]
Jack Warmups: --Tragically Hip: 50 Mission Cap --AJR: Bang! Joan Jett: I Love Rock 'n Roll --Good work listening and following along with this song --Next time, let's try getting creative and filling in some of the natural gaps in the song Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Learn to play the SENTENCE we created this week all in one shot --Be [...]
Lila Warmups: --8 on a Hand --Single strokes --Double strokes --Paradiddles Review of grip: good. Keep skin contact with stick Basic Beat Level 3** same as level 2, but BD plays all four beats (1, 2, 3, 4) Step 1) Count "1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + " Step 2) Play the Hihat with your Right Hand (RH) [...]