Tuesday, September 5th

-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 (in google drive)

*Xylophone- C Maj scale; reading C and G (p37 in piano book)

MYLES – 9yo – new – sushi

-Overview of Playing Position

-Warmups (try at three speeds)

          *8 on a Hand

          *Single Strokes

*Basic Beat Level 1

          Step 1) Count “1 2 3 4”

          Step 2) Play the Hihat on all counts

          Step 3) Play the Bass Drum on “1” and “3”

          Step 4) Play the Snare Drum on “2” and “4”

**Audition Prep

          Solo #11 -first three lines

focus on clean double strokes

          Mar-Keys:

                    *Add drum fill BEFORE the second stop

          Xylophone:

                    -Scale pattern: one-octave scale, arpeggio, broken thirds

                    -Sailing in the Sun ***please bring sheet music next week (for me)

*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)

          *Ex. 40 needs some work – pay extra attention the sticking

Snare drum tuning

*Paradiddles Exercise

Joel Rothman Lesson 14

          *Next three lines on first page (2 repetitions of each rhythm)

          *Hand Exercises #3-4 (two repetitions of each exercise)

          *Rock Beats # (4 times each)

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

Hannaford Audition: the Mar-Keys: The Last Night

**Work in some extra drum fills next week

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)

Syncopation Set 1, p. 33,  ex. 1-4 (handout)

Review the Bossa Nova

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

          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