Jack
So glad to have worked on Holiday with Jack today! We did a simplified version of the snare tom intro lick. We will speed it up and try to play it with the music next lesson! Jack loved the song!
Aleksander
We chose Holiday as the Green Day song to play! Good job picking up the intro so fast and remember always lock into the beat (1 and 3 on bass drum and 2 and 4 on snare drum) and all the triplet material are just flair added onto that beat. Starting from B, think of this as our usual 8th note rock beat, except the eight note is slightly shuffled into triplet/swung. Also the swung note is marked as ghosted, so try to apply the push/pull motion when practising the groove. We would play the rest of page 1 next class.
Jonah
We continued with the worship song “Praise” today. I encourage you to read the score more carefully, as you are quick to pick up the groove, but often times it is the intricate details that makes the song interesting and is crucial to supporting the melody and development of the song, for example bar 21 and 22 of the piece. Whether it is an accent or a change in pattern, observe it and practise WITH those in mind. If not you will always be practising something sounds right but not quite there yet.
Jared
We read through Silhouettes till “I” today. “G” was slightly tricky with the buzzed snare hit, which at times make your time feel a little shaky. Try to think of that passage in bigger phrases and things will feel much easier to process. We are very close to the end of the song, might try to play through it next class!
Mario
You are growing more and more familiar with the rhythm but it seems like you are at times remembering the rhythm in a fixed speed and not thinking about it in the context of the bpm you have chosen to play the passage at. I encourage you to work with a metronome during practise and actually try to subdivide it (1ena which you are either playing 1()na or 1e()a) The song is also rather slow so instead of practising to play it faster, aim to play it slower but more in time. You got this!