JOSH

-Warmups (slow, med, fast):
          8 on a hand
          *Singles, Doubles, and Paradiddles – four counts of each
          Roll Exercise (apple-apple-watermelon-watermelon) all single strokes
Basic Beat Level 5! Switchin LH and RH lead
*New beat!  (bass drum on “3 +”) We’ll keep working on this next week
Fruit Salad Game
*Worksheet – Alfred Lesson 4 ex 1-5
*Xylophone- C Maj scale; reading C and G (p37 in piano book)

MYLES

-Warmups (try at three speeds)
          *8 on a Hand
          *Single Strokes
*Basic Beat Level 3
          Step 1) Count “1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + “
          Step 2) Play the Hihat on all counts
          Step 3) Play the Bass Drum on “1”, “2”, “3”, and “4”
          Step 4) Play the Snare Drum on “2” and “4”
Worksheet: Alfred, Lesson 1. Ex. 1-8 (please print from Google Drive)

JONAH

Triplet Exercise (Goal tempo = 100)
          1 measure RH, two measures LH
          1 minute without a break
Sixteenth Note Exercise (goal tempo=80bpm)
Stick Control Ex. 43-50 (120bpm)
Paradiddles Exercise
*Joel Rothman Lesson 15 starting next week
*Drumset Musician 28
Xylophone
          -Ex. 1 and 2 from Lesson 1 in the GH Green book
          G Major Scale
          F Major Scale
          New Scale next Week
          *Pno book pg 42

NOAH

-Last stuff you were working on with Jonny: Black Dog, stick control, Xylophone
*Stick Control first page ex. 1-8
-Xylophone
*New Song: Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana (please print from Google Drive – I’ll upload when I get home tonight)
          *Work on the chorus beat that I wrote out for you, Spend a few minutes each practice session getting it up to speed

WILL

Pad Exercises:
          Singles, Doubles, and Paradiddles (120)
          Triplet Exercise (goal tempo=120)
          Sixteenth-note exercise (goal tempo=90)
                    **Keep the wrist involved
          Roll Exercises (80bpm)
          Flams and Flam Taps
Syncopation Set 1 ex. 1-8 (please print page 33 from the google drive)
Basic Swing Brush Pattern
          *try at 80bpm – 120 bpm. Look for drumless swing tracks on Youtube and try it out
          First four exercises from Syncopation
*This year’s goals
          Zackgrooves stuff (chops and halftime beats)
*Ghost Note Exercises (Drumset Musician p.11 #4 this week)
          A) on the “a” of 2 and 4
          B) on the “e” of 1 and 3
          C) Both A) and B)
          D) on all the “e”s