Tuesday, June 6th

-Warmups (30 sec each)

          -New Warm Up Song: Don’t Let Me Down – Chainsmokers and Daya

          -8 on a hand

          -Singles; doubles; paradiddles

          -Roll exercise (apple-apple-watermelon-watermelon)

          -find your speed limit, starting slow and gradually increasing the speed

-Basic Beat

          -Level 5 – switching between LH and RH lead!

                  Good work, keep getting this comfortable

-Fruit Salad game

          *Add lychee and blueberry this week

worksheet: Alfred Lesson 2

          -Way to go! Think about the fruits that match each rhythm

Xylophone

          Musical Alphabet

          C Major Scale

          note reading: lines and spaces in treble clef

-Warmups (slow, med, fast):

          8 on a hand

          Singles

          Doubles

Basic Beat Level 3.5

         Same as level 3, but LH plays the crash cymbal

Fruit Salad Game

          Great

          *move each fruit to a different drum

Worksheet – **Alfred Lesson 2

          *Careful to play the eighth-notes and quarter-notes at the proper speeds, use the fruits to help

-Warmup:

          Singles, Doubles, and Paradiddles

          *Focus on making Wrist Strokes

          -Sixteenth note exercise (80bpm)

                  *four counts each

Realistic Rock worksheet – good work! For the 12 Bar Ex:

          *come up with some drum fills with varying rhythms (quarters, eighths, sixteenths; make different combinations)

**New Song: Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way

          *Learn intro by ear

-Warmups

          -Stick Control ex. 1-13 (you can find this in the google drive

          -Flam, flam accent, flam tap, flamacue (30 sec each)

          -Paradiddle ex. (1min)

          -Ride pattern exercise

-Bossa Nova

          *Break this into halves to help iron out the last few kinks

*Bill Withers: Use me

          *Listen for the chorus/vocal section – what changes?

          *to work on your Hihat splashes, use ex. 3 from Drumset Musician p. 11 (in the Google Drive) playing open hihats on:

                  1) the “and” of “4”

                  2) the “and” of “2”

                  3) the “and” of “3”

                  4) on “3”

                  **each hihat splash should only last an eighth note

-Warm-ups

          -double stops

          -Singles, Doubles, and Paradiddles at 80bpm (1min)

-Swing beat

          -standard

          -Single beats on snare (4, 3, 2, etc.)

Back in Black

          *Up to end of Guitar Solo

          *some details: three snares before the chorus; extra bass drums before the “Back in Black” shots; Guitar Solo with

-Warmups

          -8 on a hand

          -Stick Control 1-13* (200bpm)

-Drumset Musician **p 11, #1-4 b) exercises

          *Learn them without counting (or whichever way feels most accessible)

          *Add in the counting once each exercise is comfortably under your hands

-ACDC – Back In Black

          *After the chorus, repeat the same material over again (verse + chorus)

          *Added detail to the fill in the verse: double-snare before the crash; bass drum with the hihat