Monday 01/10/18 6pm

Warm ex: below is a little 3:4 independence ex. It involves playing steady 1/4 notes with the left foot while overlaying a 3 beat linear pattern on the top. 

Toby: Tiberius is looking good. You successfully added in the 1/4 hi bars fir section C. Take your time with practicing this. Remember to keep your bass drum and snare drums consistent and accurate to create a secure feel. The rest of this piece is taking a really old shape well done. 

Seb: tech study 2 is Starting to flow really well. As you play through to tempo think about the accents ad dynamics and how they shape the flow of the piece and the phrases. 

London Town is starting have a really solid stylish feel. Now see if you can apply this to the songo groove! 

Monday 01/10/18 5pm

Good work this week guys. Have act at the hand to hand 16th note groove that we warmed up with at the start of this lesson. Start slow and try playing this groove with a few if your favourite tracks. 

LB: great work with for you this week! Keep playing through the to the track as much as you can. Just watch out for the fill in the second line of page 2. Count the rests very carefully!

LP: y'all is almost spot on now. Re cap the fills in the second page and start working on section D. Over all really well played! 

Grade 3: last thing for you finish is the transition into c on this page now. Use the groove and excercise above to build your hand speed control and stamina for this groove. 

Monday 01/10/18 4:30pm

Dora and bootsy: 

Play through the first three bars of this piece slowly making sure your bass drum pattern is 100% accurate! Your performance of this piece is really good but there are small errors in the exact bass drum and snare phrases. 

 Also re-cap the groove at section b: remember it starts with a snare and crash at the start! 

Below is the fill you played to the improvisation ex today. Have some fun experimenting with this over the next week. 

Thursday 27/09/18 6:30pm

Warm up/ technical work look at the fills from Hit Me by dirty loops. 

Listen through the track thoroughly paying especial attention to the bass drum pattern and the displaced down beats! 

 

Thursday 27/09/18 6pm

Tech study 2 start working each section up to tempo. 

London Town: great progress made this week with creating a clean phrased feel to the grooves and fills. Hold on to this moving forward. See if you can polish the transition from page 1 to page 2. 

Thursday 27/09/18 5pm

Time to start using the triplet exercises just on the snare again but now pushing the tempo up to the 150-170 range. 

You played the first page of no one knows well this week. The bridge is coming together but now I would like you to start working on playing each section together. 

Thursday 27/09/18 4:30pm

Good to meet you today. Nice work on the chart for smooth from the RS grade 3 book.  Re-cap the first fill (listen to the original if you need to). 

Have a look at the rest of the sheet and see if anything jumps out you want to go over next lesson.