Tuesday, May 30th

-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.

-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

-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

-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

-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.

-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

-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!