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
–Spelling “Dad” and “Egg” on the keyboard

Nova

Warmups:
–C Major Scale and Arpeggio (C-E-G-c-G-E-C)
–Piano Adventures p 46-47 (counting in 3)
Cirone Book: “Step 6” (pdf in Nova’s personal gdrive folder)
–Review note reading using the Step 6 melodic exercises
–If you need help or a reminder about which notes are which, look back at lesson 5 (Amw PDF)
–Be careful to follow the correct stickings and rhythms!
–Try to build the habit of visually identifying the notes (looking at the page)
–Sing the note names as you play them
Remi Wolf: Photo ID
–Finishing this song off
–Work on adding the Chorus fill (on handout) into the second chorus

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
—-Make sure that when two instruments play together they land precisely at the same time
ACDC: Back in Black–everything up until the end of the guitar solo
–Great work!
–Drill the four-bar phrase in this section
Learning Drumset Notation: Drumset Musician book
–Counting aloud; play each exercise four times without interruption
–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.

Koel

Warmups (1min each):
–Triplet Ex. 125bpm**
–Ride pattern exercise with sixteenth exercise on the cymbal (goal tempo 90)
Van Halen: Jump (scan of chart in your personal folder)
–Drill counting out the into to make sure your opening fills land at the right time
–Working on Pre-Chorus: you learn the next two measures (up to the first beat of measure two on line 4 of page 2) (a.k.a. the first 6 measures of the Pre-Chorus section)
–Go slow, sound it out, stitch the quilt together

Tracie

Warmups:
–Triplet exercise (85bpm)
–Rhythm Ex. 60bpm–>counting!
Deftones: Minerva
–Add in the new fill (you recorded it)
–Really excellent work on this!!!!
Let’s think of new songs to begin soon!

Jonah

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!

Jared

Warmups:
–Stick Control ex 1-13 goal tempo: 70bpm
—-Play each exercise 4 times, one measure rest before moving on
Bruno Mars: Uptown Funk (chart in your personal folder–please print)
–Entire song
–Interlude section: make sure the transition between “don’t believe me” and the flams is smooth
–Outro Section: make a big contrast between accented and non-accented snare drum notes: the “ghost notes” should be super quiet, accented backbeats should be very loud

–Focus on circled details

Mario

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.