Josh ACDC: Back in Black --Great work! --Now work on everything up until verse three: Chorus section! Add in crashes on the "1", and on the words "Back in Black" --Great work playing along to the recording, and fitting the crashes into the beginning of the beat Visual Drum Method: We'll start on this book next week. Myles Warmups: --Flam [...]
Jack Puss in Boots drills: 1) Playing the beat with your LH 2) playing along with the sticking L-R-L-rest, repeatedly 3) playing along alternating between "L-R-L" and "R-L-R" Jack has really been enjoying watching the Montreal drummer Max Sansalone on Youtube (Channel: dimsunk)! He might like to watch more of his videos at home. Nova Warmups: --Stick Control first 13 [...]
Myles Warmups: --Flam Paradiddles (rL-R-L-L lR-L-R-R) --8 on a Hand, goal tempo= 130bpm using a metronome (free app download, or purchase one at a music store) Drumset Musician: 12/8 Exercises (in google drive Frequently Used folder) --Learn the first 7 exercises --You can count this either "1-2-3-4-5-6-..." or "1-trip-let 2-let". Which one do you find easier? John Mayer: Gravity --Great! [...]
Jack Great work today! Using the Puss in Boots theme song (link), work on these three techniques: 1) Playing the beat with your LH 2) playing along with the sticking L-R-L-rest, repeatedly 3) playing along alternating between "L-R-L" and "R-L-R" Tracie Goals for this year: --T: low expectations, leisurely, FUN! --Continue Deftones: Minerva (different forms of counting) Warmups: --Triplet exercise [...]
Myles Goals for this year: --Xylophone and Reading --Learn 5 songs this year Warmups: --Flam Paradiddles (rL-R-L-L lR-L-R-R) --8 on a Hand, goal tempo= 130bpm using a metronome (free app download, or purchase one at a music store) John Mayer: Gravity --Please learn this by ear this week (it's brand new, but very simple) --Can you identify how to count [...]
Nova Goals this year!: --Nova has a xylophone now! --Gary Burton and Chick Corea: four mallet technique --Hamilton musical: drum set stuff --Bloom from Scott Pilgrim --Photo ID Remi Wolf(?); Sabrina Carpenter; Call Me By Your Name; Over it by Dux Warmups: --Stick Control first 13 exercises Remi Wolf: Photo ID --Intro fill (3e a4e+ ) --Main beat: Basic beat [...]
Josh New song:*** Back In Black by AC/DC Working on everything up until the guitar solo See chart in frequently used folder Nova Xylophone: --C and G major scales --Piano Adventures page 48 I will be posting Nova's 7-week summer protocol in their Google Drive folder later this week! Jonah Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man --Four new measures: these are complicated! [...]
Nova Xylophone: --C Major Scale and Arpeggio (C-E-G-c-G-E-C) --Piano Adventures p 46-47 (counting in 3) Myles Survivor: Eye of the Tiger --Great! --Now you've actually learned all the music, it just repeats the different parts you've learned. Keep playing along and we'll be finished with this song next week! Xylophone --Review of C major scale, identifying the musical alphabet --Page [...]
Jack Zelda themes (Talus Battle; Guardian Battle) Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet (click here to access - bookmakr for future use) --Practice clapping out the different letters from Q-X --As a bonus, begin on th letters A-P (note: these are counted in four as opposed to 3 like Q-X are) Jared Warmups (1min/ea) --Linear triplets: hi tom-->mid tom-->snare goal tempo 190bpm [...]
Myles Survivor: Eye of the Tiger --good. Let's focus on the road map! Two strategies: listening to the song, and reading along. Work on both! --See the new section on the sheet in google drive (chorus and post-chorus) and maintain those sections for next week --Get the fill at the end of the chorus up to speed --Please print the [...]