Keshav Sharma-Jaitly

Josh

Recommended minutes to practice: Figure out what song you’d like to learn next with Thomas!

How parents can support practice: help Josh pick his next song!

Shayne

How parents can support practice: Help Shayne pick some new songs for his next lesson with Thomas!

Noah

Great job this week, great reading!

Recommended minutes to practice: try to review “Bulls on Parade” at least once before your lesson with Thomas.

Finn

Recommended minutes to practice: review Gorillaz’ “DARE” at least once this week.

What to practice: practice the different groove variations I wrote on the sheet music.

How parents can support practice: help Finn pick his next song!

Mateo

Recommended minutes to practice: Review “La Playa” before your next lesson!

Jared

Recommended minutes to practice: Try to work on “Fly As Me” once or twice before your lesson. Focus on tightening the groove we learned (Intro, Verse) and figuring out some of the fills.

Koel

Great job this week!

Recommended minutes to practice: Think of new songs you’d want to learn with Thomas, try to practice “Bulls on Parade” at least once this week.

Josh

Recommended minutes to practice: Enjoy your trip!! Before I see you next, try to figure out the next song you want to learn.

What to practice: “Spaceman” by the Killers, “Sunflower” by Post Malone

How to practice it most effectively: try to review these songs once before our next lesson to jog your memory.

How parents can support practice: help Josh pick his next song!

Shayne

Recommended minutes to practice: I know Shayne doesn’t have a drum set to practice on yet, so I’d recommend just listening to some songs he might want to try out.

How parents can support practice: Help Shayne pick some new songs for next week.

Noah

Amazing job this week. I feel like we’re done with “Bring Me To Life,” you’re playing it really well.

What to practice: Come up with something you feel curious about to learn next week – doesn’t need to be song, can just be a technique or groove.

Here are the Latin drum set grooves we were working on sight-reading last week:

Finn

Recommended minutes to practice: review Gorillaz’ “On Melancholy Hill” at least once this week and try to think of a new song to play!

What to practice: play along to the songs we’ve been working on – “On Melancholy Hill”

How parents can support practice: help Finn come up with a new song to start learning next week / for the new year.

Mateo

Recommended minutes to practice: Try to review “Your Love” at least once this week if you can! We will review “La Playa” next week.

What to practice: try to play at full speed, and see what you can do to keep up speed when your right foot or right hand get tired, taking some notes out but keeping the essence of the groove together.

Jared

Recommended minutes to practice: great job with the fills this week! Lots of back to back fills to remember, you did great.

What to practice: listen along to the song and try to be able to play the fills as they come along, especially the new ones on the last page that we just learned.

How to practice it most effectively: break down the feel of each fill, and figure out how to recreate them in a way that’s your own!

Koel

Amazing job this week! We will review “Bring Me to Life” maybe once next week, but try to find something new to look at – can be a song, groove, technique, or concept. I’ll try to come up with something new to bring in next week as well.