Tuesday, August 1st

-Warmups (1min each):

          Triplet Exercise 95bpm

                  1 measure RH; 2mm LH

          Sixteenth-note Exercise 70bpm

                  One time through each pattern, then switch hands

Smells Like Teen Spirit

          *Good, work on this with the recording this week

Jazz – we’ll have to get to this next week

*Come with a list of songs next week

*Triplet Exercise (Goal tempo = 100)

          1 measure RH, two measures LH

          1 minute without a break

*Sixteenth Note Exercise (goal tempo=80bpm)

*Stick Control Ex. 43-50** (120bpm)

          *Ex. 40 needs some work – pay extra attention the sticking

Snare drum tuning

*Paradiddles Exercise

Joel Rothman Lesson 14

          *Next three lines on first page (2 repetitions of each rhythm)

          *Hand Exercises #3-4 (two repetitions of each exercise)

          *Rock Beats # (4 times each)

Xylophone

          -Ex. 1 and 2 from Lesson 1 in the GH Green book

          G Major Scale

          F Major Scale

          New Scale next Week

          *Pno book pg 40-41

Pad Exercises:

          Singles, Doubles, and Paradiddles

          Triplet Exercise (goal tempo=120)

          Sixteenth-note exercise (goal tempo=90)

                    **Keep the wrist involved

Syncopation Set 1 ex. 1-4 (handout)

Review the Bossa Nova

Basic Swing Brush Pattern

          *try at 80bpm – 120 bpm. Look for drumless swing tracks on Youtube and try it out

          **First four exercises from Syncopation

JOSH

-Warmups (slow, med, fast):

          8 on a hand

          Singles

          Doubles

          Roll Exercise (apple-apple-watermelon-watermelon) all single strokes

          *Paradiddles (R-L-R-R L-R-L-L…)

Basic Beat Level 5! Switchin LH and RH lead

*New beat!  (bass drum on “3 +”) We’ll keep working on this next week

Fruit Salad Game

Worksheet – Alfred Lesson: Combination study

*This week, let’s work on getting through this from beginning to end at a consistent pace without any breaks