Lucas Recommended Practice Time: 15-30mins every day What to practice: This week Lucas I want you to play through Lesson 2 in addition to practicing the beat at the end of Lesson 1. How to practice effectively: With lesson 2 just do your best counting the 8th notes, they are counted as 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +. [...]

Lucas Recommended Practice Time: 15-30mins every day What to practice: This week Lucas I want you to play the Hand Exercises of Lesson 1 as well as the beat breakdown at the end. How to practice effectively: Be sure to keep a steady pulse when you're counting and playing, go as slow as you need to but not so slowly [...]

Lucas Recommended Practice Time: 15-30mins What to practice: This week Lucas I want you to continue working through Lesson 1 out of Reading, Rudiments, and Rock Drumming by Joel Rothman. Its a book we will be using quite a bit so it may be a good idea to buy it. How to practice effectively: Now that we've got some counting [...]

Lucas Recommended Practice Time: 15-30mins What to practice: Great job with the Countdown exercise this week Lucas. This week I want you to start looking through Lesson 1 out of Reading, Rudiments, and Rock Drumming by Joel Rothman. Its a book we will be using quite a bit so it may be a good idea to buy it. How to [...]

Lucas Recommended Practice Time: 15-30mins What to practice: This week Lucas I want you to practice playing the Countdown exercise we learned. Its 4 strokes on the right hand, 4 strokes on the left hand, 4 strokes on the right foot, and 4 strokes on the left foot. You then do 3 strokes, then 2 strokes, then 1 stroke, and [...]

Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: Work through the chorus of the Violent Sun transcription. How to practice effectively: You had a good handle on the part today so just go through it and engrain it into your hands and make sure to play along to the song while you practice. Here is a video of me playing [...]

Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: Work through the chorus of the Violent Sun transcription. How to practice effectively: Go through each measure of the transcription in the chorus and break it down as much as you need. Here is a video of me playing it for audio/visual reference. And here is some fun listening if you're interested: [...]

Sampson Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: For the next couple weeks Sampson I want you to continue practicing Mario Beatbox and Lesson 6. How to practice effectively: For Mario Beatbox I want you to focus on making sure that the repetitions for each section are correct and getting all those bars of rest in the right places. The [...]

Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: Next week lets try to get up to the chorus in the Violent Sun transcription. I'd also love to hear you run through the coordination exercise with some songs! How to practice effectively: The coordination exercise is sounding really good so just run through it a little bit everyday with some music. [...]