Tuesday, August 29th

-Warmups (1min each):

          Triplet Exercise 95bpm

                  1 measure RH; 2mm LH

          Sixteenth-note Exercise 70bpm

                  One time through each pattern, then switch hands

*Syncopation Book (on the google drive)

          *p. 8, ex. 1-7:

          Read the top line as snare drum

Toto: Hold the Line

          *first four bars of groove

          *pay attention to the extra bass and hihat splash in teh fourth measure

**Audition Prep

          **Solo #11 -first three lines

focus on clean double strokes

          *Scales

          *Mar-Keys

          *Xylophone:

                    -Scale pattern: one-octave scale, arpeggio, broken thirds

                    -Sailing in the Sun ***please bring sheet music next week (for me)

*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 42

Hannaford Audition: the Mar-Keys: The Last Night

**Work in some extra drum fills next week

-Warmups (slow, med, fast):

          8 on a hand

          *Singles, Doubles, and Paradiddles – four counts of each

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

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 4 ex. 1-3 (in google drive)

*Xylophone- C Maj scale; reading C and G (p37 in piano book)