Jack
Great work today! Using the Puss in Boots theme song (link), work on these three techniques:
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”
Tracie
Goals for this year:
–T: low expectations, leisurely, FUN!
–Continue Deftones: Minerva (different forms of counting)
Warmups:
–Triplet exercise
–Rhythm Ex. 60bpm
Deftones: Minerva
–Keep working on the main beat to the song
–Count aloud (1 + 2 + 3e+a4 + )
–Build it up slowly, one count at a time–>be able to count the passage aloud before playing it
Josh
Goals for this year:
–Eye of the tiger
–Back in Black
–Like a Stone
Review of Eye of the Tiger
ACDC: Back in Black, intro section (up until the singing starts)
–Begins with an eight-count
–Basic beat level 2
–Drum fill, playing along with the guitar riff (sing it to play it!)
Jared
Warmups:
–Stick Control ex 1-13 goal tempo: 70bpm*
—-Play each exercise 4 times, one measure rest before moving on
Bruno Mars: Treasure
–Great work. This week, we’re working on getting creative with it:
—-Bass drum on all four
—-flams for hand claps
–Conversational fills:
—-listening for gaps in the singing, add in drum fills
—-Be creative, and really try to know all the music happening around you