Josh

Warm-ups:
–Hand and foot coordination (see handout): playing steady beats on the bass drum, play singles, doubles, and paradiddles with your hands on the snare drum. There should be two snare notes (ti-ti; eighth notes) to every bass drum note (ta; quarter notes)
Groove Essentials Rock Groove 5
–This week, add drum fills in every fourth measure
–See handout for fill examples
The Beatles: Ticket To Ride
–Your job this week is to learn where the beat STOPS. Ringo plays a crash, and lets it settle for a moment before picking back up with the song…

Myles

Drumset Musician p83 Twelve Bar Blues playalong
–We used this as a way to learn drum fills
–Next week let’s learn about the 12 bar blues as a form
==Xylophone==
Warmups (Three keys):
–Scale, one octave, ascending and descending, saying the note names as you play them
–Arpeggio
–Broken thirds, ascending and descending
Cirone Book: “Step Six” ex. 5-8
Eartraining: identifying thirds and fifths
Tones and I: Dreaming
–See Worksheet in google drive PLEASE PRINT

Finn

Warmups (30sec each, counting aloud):
–Single Strokes
–Double Strokes
–8 on a hand
Visual Drummer: p17 ex. 13-15***
Nickelback: How You Remind Me
–Use the webplayer for the Visual Drummer book to help you get the right tempo. Play along with the ex. 2 backing track, and adjust the speed in the bottom left corner of the webplayer to adjust. Gradually build up to our goal tempo (160).
–This week we’re adding in the “apple apple watermelon watermelon” fill. Try to learn where it happens in the song (just before the chorus) using cues from the rest of th band

Francisco

Warmups:
–Stick Control first page ex. 14-18 (4x each, 120bpm goal tempo)
–Play eighths ca. 120-160 bpm (gradually building up the speed) using accents on the beats to help with the push-pull strokes
Tommy Igoe Groove Essentials book: Groove 1 FAST
–Use small fills to smooth the transition between eighths on HH and quarters on the ride
–This week, come up with four fills you can use to fill the space in between the pushes and shots in that section. We’ll begin to develop this as a kind of solo

Aviva

Warmups (1min ea) goal tempo = 120bpm, playing two notes per beat (aka eighth notes)
–Single strokes (LRLR…)
–Double Strokes (LLRR…)
–Paradiddles (LRLL RLRR…)
Drumset Musician p11 ex. 1-7 b)
–Three speeds: 70, 100, 130
Drumset Musician p12, ex. 8-15*** a)
–learn these :)
Igoe Groove Essentials Groove 1 Slow (backing track and chart in Frequently Used Resources folder)
–Play variation A
–Add in drum fills from the handout every four bars
Hole: Celebrity Skin
–This week, learn the main groove on the handout I gave you