Click here for the google drive. Please bookmark!

Jack

Puss in Boots drills (30sec each):
1) Playing the beat with your LH
2) playing along with the sticking L-R-L-rest, repeatedly
3) playing along alternating between “L-R-L” and “R-L-R”
Xylophone
–Learning the musical alphabet (ABCDEFG)
–Visually identifying C on the keyboard
Playing cowbell on different counts: all the beats, all the ands, improvising
Next week, let’s revisit the Benny Greb rhythmic alphabet

Aleksander

Warmups (30 sec each) at three speeds (slow/med/fast):
–Single strokes (R L R L…)
–Double Strokes (R R L L….)
–Paradiddles (RLRR LRLL…)
–Basic Beat level 3.5
—-same as level 2, but bass drum plays on all four beats and RH plays on ride cymbal
First song!!! ACDC: Back in Black–everything up until 1:50 (stop at guitar solo)
–Great work!
–Add in crashes on “Back in black” at the end of the chorus
Learning Drumset Notation: Drumset Musician book
–Practice exercises 1-7 on p11 of the Drumset musician book (find PDF below)
–top line is hihat,middle space is snare drum, bottom space is bass drum

==Please Bookmark the following link, we’ll use it throughout lessons==

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RuBf7-jO6pZUsKMZJTwePeIQxdfKCEnV?usp=drive_link

Print the Back in Black charts from Alexander’s folder (Student-specific), and “Drumset Musician (11-13)” from the Frequently Used folder.

Tracie

Warmups:
–Triplet exercise (85bpm)
–Rhythm Ex. 60bpm–>counting!
Deftones: Minerva
–Awesome job!
–This week’s goal is to play the new fill in the fourth measure of our four-bar pattern
–Break this into intermediary goals: four bar pattern on its own; fill on its own; drilling the “seams”; altogether

Jonah

First Lesson of the Year!!
Goals for this year:
–Xylophone songs
–Drum set songs
–Stick Control
Warmups (1min/ea)
–Triplet Exercise (Goal tempo=115)
–Sixteenth-note exercise (goal tempo=100)
New Song! Bruno Mars: Locked Out of Heaven
–Find the sheet in Jonah’s personal folder in the google drive (please print)
–We learned the entire first page today. Drill it!

Mario’s first lesson! Woohoo

Required Materials:
1) Sticks (check)
2) Binder
3) Metronome (or app)
4) Sign up for the lesson notes emails
Recommended materials:
1) Hearing protection
2) Practice pad
3) Method books (I’ll recommend when and what to get)
Warmups (1min/ea; slow, med, fast speeds)
–8 on a hand
–Single Stroke Roll (R L R L…)
–Double Stroke Roll (R R L L…)
First Drum Beat! Basic Beat Level 1
Step 1) Count “1 2 3 4”
Step 2) Play the Hihat with your right hand (RH) on all counts
Step 3) Add in the bass drum with your right foot (RF) on “1” and “3”
Step 4) Add in the snare drum with your LH on “2” and “4”
–The goal is to get through this with all instruments four times uninterrupted
This week your challenges are to play RELAXED, without unwanted bounces of the stick. Also, focus on making sure the notes line up precisely.