NOVA
-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
JOSH
-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
OZZIE
-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
LEO
-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
THEA & RACHEL
-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
TRACIE
-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