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Ella

1. Practice the hit-tap technique. Here is a video explaining it. I made it for another student who is learning to play fast, which the technique is also good for, but you’re learning it so that you get that LOUD-soft hi-hat sound.
2. Play along to the song! Have fun! If you don’t have a copy of the recording, here is the YouTube version.
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Eric

1. Print this sheet to work on. Practise the exercises with a metronome. Start with the metronome at 50 bpm (beats per minute). Once you feel comfortable with that tempo, raise it to 60 bpm. Then 70. Then 80. You can go faster if you’d like, but 80 is fine for now. The clicks of the metronome represent quarter notes, so they should occur at the same time as your bass drum and hi-hat notes. Use a “layered entry”: start by just playing the foot pattern along to the metronome, then start counting 16th notes, and finally come in with your hands (you can stop counting if you’d like).
2. Practise the beat from Immigrant Song along to a metronome at 50 bpm. Then increase the tempo to 60. Then to 70. You can go faster if you’d like, but 70 is fine for now. Use a layered entry: start by just playing the hi-hat part, then add the snare drum, and finally come in with the bass drum.
3. Free play: Have fun! Play whatever you want!

Sylvie

1. “Getting those limbs independent” worksheet
   • Polish up number 1 and practise number 2. We’ll leave numbers 3 and 4 for another time.
   • Remember to do a “layered entry”: start by just listening to the metronome, then count 16th notes out loud, and finally come in with the pattern (you can stop counting if you’d like).
2. Drum fills
   • Polish up the first fill and practise the second one, too. We’ll leave the others for later. Use a metronome at 40 bpm.
   • Do a layered entry: start with the bass drum playing quarter notes, then count 16th notes, and finally come in with the fill.
3. Free play: Have fun! Play whatever you want!

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Ella

Practise the Another One Bites the Dust beat with the drum fill we worked on at the end of every bar. Practise with a metronome at 50 bpm (beats per minute). Once you can do that comfortably, try it at 60 bpm. Then try it at 70 bpm, which is this week’s tempo goal. Each metronome click equals a quarter note.

Eric

• Print this sheet to work on. Only do numbers 1-4. Practise them with a metronome. Start with the metronome at 50 bpm (beats per minute). Once you feel comfortable with that tempo, raise it to 60 bpm. Then 70. Then 80. You can go faster if you’d like, but 80 is fine for now. The clicks of the metronome represent quarter notes, so they should occur at the same time as your bass drum and hi-hat notes.
• Practise the beat from Immigrant Song along to a metronome at 50 bpm. Then increase the tempo to 60. Then to 70. You can go faster if you’d like, but 70 is fine for now.

Sylvie

• Here is a clearer copy of the limb independence exercises we worked on. The exercises may not be exactly what you have written, but they will still be helpful. Practise them with a metronome at 40 bpm (beats per minute). Each metronome click equals one quarter note.
• Practise the accent patterns Pino gave you where the right-hand accents are played on the floor tom and the left-hand accents are played on the high tom. The only difference is that this time, I want you to play quarter notes on the bass drum, too. You do not need to alternate between the accent patterns and the drum beats written above them, like you did last week. Play along to a metronome at 40 bpm.