Myles

Goals for this year:
–Xylophone and Reading
–Learn 5 songs this year
Warmups:
–Flam Paradiddles (rL-R-L-L lR-L-R-R)
–8 on a Hand, goal tempo= 130bpm using a metronome (free app download, or purchase one at a music store)
John Mayer: Gravity
–Please learn this by ear this week (it’s brand new, but very simple)
–Can you identify how to count this song?

Finn

Finn – 7yo – pno, drums, ukulele, dancing – pizza
Basics of Grip (V-shape, dribbling the basket ball, backs of hands facing up)
Warmups:
–Single Strokes
–Double Strokes
–8 on a Hand
Basic Beat Level 1
Step 1) Count “1 2 3 4”
Step 2) Play the Hihat with your Right Hand (RH) on all the 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 Left Hand (LH) on “2” and “4”
Required Materials:
–Sticks (5A is pretty standard; 7A (a little shorter and a little lighter) might fit Finn’s smaller hands, but go with what’s comfortable)
–Metronome
–Notebook, binder, etc for handouts and notes
Recommended Materials:
–Hearing protection
–Practice
–Method Books

Francisco

Skip warmups for Today
Bon Jovi: Livin On a Prayer (find the sheet music in your student folder)
–Intro Fill (3e+a 4 + )
–Main groove: like a basic beat, with an extra bass drum on the “and” of 4 every other measure’
–Working on the fill before Verse 1

Warmups (30sec/ea., find goal speed):
–8 on a hand (140bpm)
–Singles (sixteenths at 140bpm)
–doubles (16ths at 90*)
–Paradiddles (16ths at 90*)
Drumset Musician p13 ex 20-23

Noah

Goals for this year:
–Rock band program
–Finish Green Day: American Idiot
–Xylophone
Green Day: American Idiot–focusing on notes, not tempo
–Everything up until the beginning of the 6th line on page two (stopping at the beginning of that cool tom fill)
–remember alternating hihats/floor toms before the bass drum segments in the verse
–Careful to distinguish the similar but different bass drum parts in the Chorus