Josh
ACDC: Back in Black
–Wow! Great Work!!!
–Review the crash pattern during the guitar solo (parents, the sheet music may be helpful for you in this part (version 1) (version 2)
Myles
Warmups:
–Flam Paradiddles (rL-R-L-L lR-L-R-R)
–8 on a Hand, goal tempo= 130bpm using a metronome
Drumset Musician: Next week let’s do the remaining exercises
QOTSA: Keep Your Eyes Peeled
–great work
–Drill the tempo: LISTEN carefully–>IDENTIFY if too slow/fast–>ADJUST so that you line up with the track
–NExt week, we’ll learn the next section
Finn
Survivor: Eye of the Tiger
–AWESOME JOB! Huge improvements from last week
–Intro: we learned the intro this week. Sing along and play the crash-bass combo at the right times
–Verse: we learned the first drum fill of the song today. It happens during the first verse. To remember the rhythm, we recited “what what chicken but” (ta ta titi ta). It goes Snare Tom Snare-Snare Hihat.
Francisco
Warmups (30sec/ea., find goal speed):
–8 on a hand (140bpm)
–Singles (sixteenths at 140bpm)
–doubles (16ths at 90)
–Paradiddles (16ths at 90)
Bon Jovi: Livin On a Prayer: everything up until Guitar Solo section
–Excellent work
–Two new bars for you to work out at the beginning of the guitar solo
–D.S. al Coda: Remember to jump back to the Segno and then jump forward to the Coda on the second time through
Noah
Warmups (1min each per practice session):
–Triplet Exercise (1mm RH, 2mm LH) @ 95bpm
–Sixteenth-note Exercise 75bpm
Green Day: American Idiot–up to the second measure of p. 4 (midway through the Coda 1 section)
–try the floor-tom groove without the sixteenths so that you can develop the muscle memory of it being in perfect time
–drill the sixteenths in the Coda by starting with half as many (3e&a4) the do two beats (3e&a4e&a1)