Jack
Jack has been making good progress with Seven Nation Army but just at times lacking focus. I am ready to move him onto a new song as he has been able to play with the music and displayed the ability to change from pattern to pattern.
Nova
Going forward Nova’s assignment will always be in three part: a reading exercise, a rudiment page from stick control or other method books and section of the song we are working on. The rudiments assigned this week focuses on triplet and is geared towards learning our new song Sparkles by REDWIMP. Practise the triplet exercise pulsing every beat on the bass drum, so they know they are playing the triplet accurately. For the reading exercise, I would like Nova to work on two lines each week. We did the first two line this week. I told Nova they have the choice of either practising it at home, or we will do it as sight reading during lesson. Either way I would like them to read more. As for the new song, I have showed the first phrase. I will like them to try to read the song until bar 52 this week.
Adam
Since Adam has no drum set to practise on these past few weeks, I have resorted to giving him more rudiments exercise to work on. On the Stick Control book, he did a good job on the 16th notes exercise, and I would like him to try the page next to it which will introduce him to double strokes and roll in general. On top of that, I have assigned him several two bar drum patterns from the Drumset Musician book. This will get him well prepared to approach Under the Bridge when we are back to working on the song.
Jonah
We played through Superstition this week with the music, and Jonah did a superb job despite all the crazy transitions and how complicated the rhythms are. I have assigned Super Bad by James Brown to him this week. Please print it out and I would like him to first only work on the main pattern which is the first bar. That bar gets repeated a lot until the bridge section.