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”
Jack has really been enjoying watching the Montreal drummer Max Sansalone on Youtube (Channel: dimsunk)! He might like to watch more of his videos at home.
Playing cowbell on different counts: all the beats, all the ands, improvising
Next week, let’s revisit the Benny Greb rhythmic alphabet

Nova

Warmups:
–Stick Control first 13 exercises
Remi Wolf: Photo ID
–Intro fill (3e a4e+ )
–Main beat: Like basic beat level two, with some Bass drum variation (handout)
–Verse: drums drop out, bass drum pattern
–Using what you know already (above) try getting through the entire song. Does everything match up with what you already know? If not, identify where it changes.
Xylophone:
–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!
==PLEASE BOOKMARK:==
==Nova’s google drive folder==
==The “Frequently Used Resources” folder==

Aleksander

Warmups (30 sec each):
–Single strokes (R L R L…)
–Double Strokes (R R L L….)
–Paradiddles (RLRR LRLL…)
–Basic Beat level 2–Good!

–Thinking about POSTURE: relaxed, neutral, not raising right elbow or rounding right shoulder

First song!!! ACDC: Back in Black
–Main beat is BB lvl 2
–Drum fill in unison with the guitar
–Play everything along with the recording (on youtube or elsewhere) up to 1:00
–For now, continue working on this relying on rote memorization. Next week we’ll begin looking more at notation, and I’ll give you the sheet music for this song

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

Jared

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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)f
–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
==PLEASE BOOKMARK:==
==Your personal folder==
==The “Frequently Used Resources” folder==