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 experimenting with two-letter words
Tommy Igoe’s Groove Essentials: Groove 1 SLOW EXCELLENT
review Drumset Musician p27 (in google drive) to see examples of four-beat fills
–Do the same with the Variation A groove
Groove 1 FAST***
–This week, play the first section (4x) switching between 8th-notes on the HH and 1/4-notes on the ride to give your RH a break!
–Create fills to play every 16 measures
==Xylophone Next Week==
Aleksander
Warmups goal tempo *90bpm* playing four notes per beat:
–Singles, Doubles, and Paradiddles (four counts each for 1min)
–Flams, flam triplets
Drumset Musician: Sixteenth Note Ride Patterns (in your gdrive folder)
–Drill ex. 5-7, 2min ea
Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go My Way–all the way to the end!
–You know how all the parts. Follow along and work on getting through to tthe end this week. Next week, we’ll polish up th edetails
Tracie
Warm-ups:
–Triplet ex. (85bpm, 1min)
Benny Greb: Rhythmic Alphabet
–Have fun creating words
–Use the four words on the handout from today to help you create some fills. Try putting each letter on a different drum
Groove Essentials: Groove 1 (find chart and backing track in the Freq. Used folder)
–Good work on variation A this week! Keep it up
–Try using some of your Rhythmic Alphabet words from above to create drum fills that you can play in this song
Montell Fish: Don’t you Love Me
–see handout
–drill the main groove
Mario
Warmups (1min/ea) with Metronome at *115bpm* (two notes per beat)
–8 on a hand
–Single Stroke Roll (R L R L…)
–Double Stroke Roll (R R L L…)
–Focus on keeping up with the metronome. You have a tendency to drag, so don’t let yourself get sluggish!
Queen: Rock you
–Filling in the empty “4”
Joan Jett: Rock ‘n Roll
–Watermelon-watermelon fill off the top
–“apple pineapple” fill before chorus
Drumset Musician p27 (in google drive) – 8th-note Fills, ex. 9-12
–This week, focus on keeping the 8th-note steady through your fills
Here’s a video from the orchestra pit of the Barbican during my gig on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s prpduction of Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mateo
Warmups (30 sec each) **pulling your thumb back:
–8 on a Hand
–Single Stroke Roll (RLRL…)
–Double Stroke Roll (RRLL…)
Drumset Musician p27, ex. 10-12**
–Aim to keep the flow of the eighth-note pulse STEADY
–try looping these exercises, so that the crash after the fill becomes beat 1 of the beat again
–count aloud!
Tommy Igoe’s Groove Essentials, Groove 1 SLOW
–Drill Variation A this week, making it fit tidily along with the recording
NEW SONG Audioslave: Like a Stone
–Play the whole song along with the recording. Use the recipe cheat-sheet (handout) to help you get all of the main parts
–next week we’ll polish some more of the details (hh splash, LF)