This Week - 2nd February
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
1. Hand position
1. Hand position
1. Hand position
2. First 3 notes: G A B
2. First 3 notes: G A B
2. First 3 notes: G A B
This Week - 18th January / 22nd January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
3. Tonguing
3. Tonguing
3. Tonguing
4. Changing notes
4. Changing notes
4. Changing notes
Brecknock & Torriano
Primary Federation
Camden Youth
Recorder Group
Coleridge Primary
Orchestra
Fleet Primary
Brass
Drums
You can check out a range of drumming lessons and resources to advance your progression and development.
Video Resources:
Various Drum Grooves
Jazz and Blues
Contemporary
Latin
Latin Rhythms 2
Algorhythm
Find lots of exciting drum exercises to really test and progress your drumming ability. You can view the pdf below.
Watch Tom demonstrating the Samba Independence exercise from Algo-rhythm.
Watch Tom demonstrate the paradiddle inspired drum solo, "Portrait of Harry" from
Algo-rhythm.
Odd Time Exercises
Try out playing in 5/8 and 7/8 time with these bass backing tracks. The drum transcriptions are exercise 7. Tracks1-10 are in 5/8 and exercises 11-20 are in 7/8.
Snare Drum Sight Reading
Practice some basic sight reading exercises on your snare drum to get your skills super tight! Open up the pdf below.
Style It Out
Have fun learning and playing along to these 20 pieces in 20 different styles. The audio files have the track with the drums and then without.
These Are The Breaks
Get your break beats together with this in-depth look at Hip-hop culture, artists, producers and equipment.
There are lots of transcribed drum examples going through the decades and a high lighted look at some of the most influential producers and the beats they have written
