Aleksander
Can’t Stop: we are almost done working through the song. Our aim for next lesson is to try playing through the song. I would like Aleksander to pay attention to the final eight bars leading up to outro. Though this passage is simple, counting all the rest is crucial to being able to play with the music. If Aleksander would like to play with the song, the time stamp is 3:18. Here the guitar is playing a short solo, and try to feel the beat through the bass solo, and note that the entrance two bars before the outro is on a backbeat. Also note that the drum pattern in outro is slightly different from the one in other section, with the crash/kick is flipped to the backbeat rather than on the beat.
Zico
Smooth Criminal: Zico has made huge progress with Smooth Criminal and we have tackle all sections individually including all the tricky fills. One fill that I would especially like Zico to pay attention to is the one in bar 93 and 101, where four groups of three 16th note pattern is played over the first three beats of the 4/4 bar. Zico was fast to understand how the pattern works, but since the kick is not on the beat, there will be an urge to rush. To fight that urge, practise with metronome, as well as subdivide to the 16th note grid. Our goal after holiday is to play through bigger sections. So far we have tried linking page 1 and page 2 together. However with page 3 being way more tricky and mentally taxing, our goal will be first piecing page 3 together and soon connect the whole song together.