NOVA
-Warmups (30 sec each)
-8 on a hand
-Singles; doubles; paradiddles
-Roll exercise (apple-apple-watermelon-watermelon)
-find your speed limit, starting slow and gradually increasing the speed
-New Warm Up Song: Don’t Let Me Down – Chainsmokers and Daya
-Basic Beat
Level 4 – good
*Level 5 – switching between LH and RH lead!
-Fruit Salad game
*watermelon, apple, coconut, raspberry
*raspberry, coconut, watermelon, apple
worksheet: Alfred Lesson 1 – good!
*Alfred Lesson 2 *please learn ex. 1-8.
*Make sure the beats (ie: “1”, “2”, “3”, and “4”) always stay the same speed. the “and” part of the count fits in between each beat.
JOSH
-Warmups (slow, med, fast):
8 on a hand
Singles
Doubles
Basic Beat Level 3
*Work on getting this more comfortable and faster
Fruit Salad Game
*add coconut, raspberry, and mango
*move each fruit to a different drum
Worksheet – **Alfred Lesson 2
*Careful to play the eighth-notes and quarter-notes at the proper speeds
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, I’ll bring a chart for next week
LUCAS
-Warmups:
-8 on a hand (1min)
-Singles, Doubles, and Paradiddles (1 min)
*make sure it’s one measure of each, count to four
Lesson 7
**rock beat exercises #5-8
-Drum fill (“4 and a”)
**Sad But True
LEO
-Warmups
-S,d, and P at 100 (using “What is Hip?” as a tempo)
-Flam, flam accent, flam tap, flamacue (30 sec each)
-Paradiddle ex. (1min)
-Ride pattern exercise
-Bossa Nova
*Realistic Rock p. 14-15
*Bill Withers: Use me
*Main groove
*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
You forgot your bossa nova/Use Me sheet here! I’ll keep it until next week.
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
ELLIOT
-Warm-ups
-singles, doubles, and paradiddles
*wrist strokes
-Paradiddles with accents
*Think about the choreography involved in this: raising and lowering arm for accents
-Watermelon Man
-Figured out the roadmap, now it’s time to put it all together
-Check out the “hindehu” on youtube to learn more about these cool instruments!