NOVA
-Warmups (30 sec each)
-8 on a hand
-Singles; doubles; paradiddles
-Roll exercise (apple-apple-watermelon-watermelon)
-Ride Pattern Exercise
Alfred Lesson 4
*Combination Exercise
Worksheet: Drumset Musician p. 11
*keep working on 7 a) = get it faster and more comfortable
*Taylor Swift: Blank Space (adding in hihat)
Xylophone
Musical Alphabet
C Major Scale
note reading: lines and spaces in treble clef
*Piano Adventures p. 32-3
-Alfred’s Beginning Drum Method Book 1 (please buy)
JARED
Padwork:
Flams
Flam Taps *work on speed
Singles, Doubles, Paradiddles – **goal tempo: 130bpm
Triplet ex. (Goal Tempo=120)
Sixteenth-Note Exercise (goal tempo = 90) **try with the Bass Drum (60bpm)
Fall Out Boy – Dance, Dance *Page two first two measures ->work on these and build the speed up
-Larnell Lewis foot exercise + peanut butter octapus drum fill
KOEL
-Warmups (1min each):
Triplet Exercise 100bpm
Sixteenth-note Exercise 80bpm*
Syncopation Book: p. 9 *16-bar exercise (please print)
Toto: Hold the Line
*work on two strategies for building speed (5 min ea)
*Opening drum fill (minus first note) “3 – a 4”
TRACIE
-Warmups
-8 on a hand *keep closed grip for a couple weeks
-Stick Control 24-32 (110bpm)
-Roll exercise (apple-apple-watermelon-watermelon) – keep pushing the speed
*Drumset Musician p 27 *1-4
Sweet Child of Mine: build the muscle memory for the correct beat! Follow the snare with the bass