Jack
We continued building upon Imperial March and now heading into the second phrase. I introduced the black keys as the “higher ground” in comparison to the white keys. We will continue to observe if Jack is interested to dive more into xylophone playing and note reading.
Nova
We started the session with more Stick Control practise. I have attached a link to the e-book version of the book. We will spend more time on page 14, with now a bigger focus on the rolls. A good way to practise stick control is also to combine two similar lines together, eg. playing line 9 after line 1. Regarding the note reading exercise, we touched on syncopation and dotted rhythm this week. We will talk more about that next week. For Sparkle, we are onto bar 59-62. We mentioned how the phrase has its own melody, and this particular line shares a similar melody as the phrase before. Pay attention to that during practising, and we will connect some phrases together next lesson and perhaps introduce some new material.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ADGiCCfAkWJGercA3ivs8DTQwjXziGzk/view?usp=sharing
Adam
Since Adam still doesn’t have access to his drumset, instead of learning a new song, we talked about some new rhythmic concept. Today it was triplets. We used the handout Stick Control p.14 to build that concept. Adam can either focus on line 1 and 2, or simply practise the few lines I wrote on his hand out this week.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ADGiCCfAkWJGercA3ivs8DTQwjXziGzk/view?usp=sharing
Jonah
During today’s online lesson, we worked through verse 2 of the new song Super Bad. We did a shorter lesson this week so we will compensate that 10 minutes in next week’s lesson.