Great work this week, everyone! Please look at these materials for next time.

Ella- This week, try to nail down the first page of Breezeblocks. Also, take some time to listen to other music, could be anything, and try to play along. It doesn’t have to be exactly right, just try to make some music and enjoy the drums.

Jonah- This week, finish up lesson 3 number 21-25 and also Lesson 4 1-12. Make sure you start slow keep your eyes on the music until you have it totally down.

Noah- Try to get Take on Me up to letter G this week. In addition here is page 6 of Stick Control (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c0TL6UKL-_4zGcGMaXOUFvkGYwCNbsp6/view?usp=sharing). Start off each practice session going through a couple of these exercises, repeat each one at least 20 times! Focus on keeping your stick heights the same and wrists loose!

Sylvie- This week, try to be able to play through the first page of Get Used to It. It doesn’t have to be full tempo, but definitely practice all of the transitions.

Koel- This week, try to play through Disco beats 1-6, connected by fills. Play the beat a few times and then a fill, going straight into the next beat.

Samson- This week, try to play Astronomia full tempo with the song, up to bar 27. Then work on the main beat and try to get it up to 140 on the metronome. Thanks a lot for agreat lesson!!

Hope you have fun and have a nice weak. See you next week!

Pino

Hi everyone, glad to see you all again! Here is what I would like for you to practice this week.

Ella- Keep looking at Breezeblocks this week, it’s already almost done! Focus on learning the new material in page 2, but review and try to work up speed in the first page as well.

Jonah- This week, try to learn all of Lesson 3, including the application at the end. This is some information that should help for sharing sound (https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362643-Sharing-Computer-Sound-During-Screen-Sharing#:~:text=Zoom%20screen%20sharing%20allows%20you,a%20video%20or%20audio%20clip.&text=Note%3A%20Computer%20sound%20cannot%20be,multiple%20screens%20are%20being%20shared.). Hopefully it helps, I can’t wait to hear it!

Noah- This week, spend some time working on looseness in your hands with Stick Control. Play it all on the snare drum and try to make your hands sound as even as possible. Also try to get the disco beats up to 70 on the quarter note. Your time keeping is really improving!!! Also, take a look at Take On Me (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mk_siiGmNdiAkZEKU4fHcljEk7hqOWbZ/view?usp=sharing) and try to get a feel for the form of the song as well as some of the drum patterns.

Sylvie- As an ongoing goal, try to work up to playing the entire disco page without stopping, with fills between all of the beats. Keep 80 bpm as a goal tempo for this excercise. Also, listen to Get Used To It a lot so you can start to pick up on the drum part and the form of the whole song.

Koel- This week, get the disco beats up to 80 bpm on the eighth note. Focus especially on lining up with the metronome. Using a metronome with a visual component like a flashing screen can be very helpful as well.

Samson- This week, try to relearn Crab Rave and see if you can get it back up to tempo. First, practice the drum part alone slowly, then try to play alonf with the song at full tempo. I will have the sheet music for Astronomia ready for the next lesson.

Thanks a lot for your work on this, and have fun with it!!
Pino