MYLES
-Warmups (try at three speeds)
8 on a Hand
Single Strokes
*Double stokes (R-R-L-L…)
*Basic Beat Level 5 = switching hands
Worksheet: Alfred, Lesson 2, ex. 1-2 (go until 8 for next week)
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)
Joel Rothman Lesson 15 – 2nd segment this week
Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna go my Way? (please print from google drive)
*Please learn the first page – play along with recording
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 44
JOSH
-Warmups (slow, med, fast):
8 on a hand
Singles, Doubles, and Paradiddles
Roll Exercise
New Beat: Smooth out the transition – the crash is “1” of the beat, so after you play it just slide your hand over to the Hihat and keep going
Fruit Salad Game
Worksheet – Alfred Lesson 4 ex 1-5
Xylophone- C Maj scale; reading C and G (p37 in piano book)
NOAH
-Stick Control first page ex. 1-13***
-Xylophone
Smells Like Teen Spirit: everything up until the Chorus
*Work on getting the opening fill up to speed
WILL
Pad Exercises (1min/ea):
Triplet Exercise (goal tempo=120)
Sixteenth-note exercise (goal tempo=90)
Roll Exercises (80bpm)
Flams and Flam Taps (80-90bpm)**
***Paradiddles and Paradiddle-diddles WITH ACCENTS
Syncopation p. 35 ex. 13-16**
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
*Zackgrooves thing – work on looping this – add paradiddle-diddle turn around
Ghost Note Exercises