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Lesson1 the cymbal sheet 1
title: Time playing in slow and medium swing, the cymbal hand
example/explanation: use of cymbal hand / Hihat 2 and 4
Introduction: think ‘up’ not down, think of the room between the notes, think of a basketball, use the repond of the stick
assignment: Repeat the exercises in 4 different tempos, 70, 90, 100 and 120 bpm
Lesson2 sheet 2
title: the bassdrum
example/explanation: use of four on the floor in relation to the cymbal and hihat in slow/medium tempos
Introduction: play bassdrum in 4/4 slow tempo
practice: excersie with 4ths/8ths / triplets / 8ths
assignment: practise excersise in different tempos and play the bassdrum with swing in 4 different tempos, 50, 60, 70, 80 beats per minute
Lesson3 sheet 3
title: easy snare drum comping 1
example/explanation: swing + different snaredrum patterns 1-2 notes / bar
Introduction: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns
practice: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson4 sheet 4
title: easy snare drum comping 2
example/explanation: swing + different snaredrum patterns 2-3 notes / bar
Introduction: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns
practice: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson5 sheet 5
title: easy snare drum comping 3
example/explanation: swing + different snaredrum patterns 3-4 notes / bar
Introduction: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns
practice: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson6 sheet 6
title: warming up excersices in swing
example/explanation: swing + different snaredrum patterns in triplets (8 variations)
Introduction: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns
practice: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson7 sheet 3/4/5
title: Bassdrum / Hihat intergration
example/explanation: swing + different bassdrum and hihat patterns
Introduction: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns filling in the bassdrum and / or hihat from
Lesson3 and 4
Play first only bassdrum or only hihat, after that do combinations
practice: play swing + different comping patterns
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson8 sheet 3/4/5
title: Bassdrum / Hihat / Snaredrum intergration
example/explanation: swing + different bassdrum, snaredrum and hihat patterns
Introduction: play swing + different snare / bassdrum / hihat comping patterns filling in the bassdrum / snaredrum and / or hihat from
Lesson3 and 4
Make different combinations
practice: play swing + different comping patterns
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson9
title: rudiments 1
example/explanation:
Introduction: play basic rudiments, single, double, paradiddle, double paradiddle, 5/7/9 stroke roll and make combinations
practice: all the different rudiments in different tempos start slow
assignment: all the different rudiments in different tempos
Lesson10 sheet 10
title: rudiments 2 paradiddles
example/explanation: combinations of single and double paraddidles in variations
Introduction: play
practice: play start slow and keep tempo
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson11 sheet 11
title: rudiments in triplets
example/explanation: 8 variations
Introduction: play
practice: play 1 bar swing + 1 bar of variations
assignment: practise variations from sheet over the drumset
Lesson12 sheet 12
title: 2 bar phrases
example/explanation: swing + prases with snare drum / bassdrum or snare bass drum combination
Introduction: play swing + different comping patterns
practice: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson13 sheet 13
title: 4 bar phrases
example/explanation: swing + prases with snare drum / bassdrum or snare bass drum combination
Introduction: play swing + different comping patterns
practice: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson14 sheet 14 + sheet 14 A
title: orchestrating simple melodies 1
example/explanation: take 4 bars of tenor madness or billies bounce
Introduction: play swing + pattern
practice: play swing + pattern and mame different subdividions on the set in the style of syncopation
assignment: practise variations
Lesson15 sheet 13
title: syncopation
example/explanation: go back to sheet 13 and use syncopation variations on the different patterns
swing + different snaredrum patterns in triplets (8 variations)
Introduction:: variations are:
-play line with snare drum
-play line with bassdrum
-play line with snare drum and bassdrum after each other
-play line with snare drum and bassdrum in different order
-play line with snare drum, fill bassdrum in eight rests
-play line with bassdrum, fill snaredrum with eight rests
-play line with bassdrum, fill snaredrum in triplet rests
-play line with bassdrum, fill snaredrum in triplet rests, play cymbal with bassdrum
practice: play swing + different patterns
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson16 sheet 3 + sheet 15
title: fills and accents
example/explanation: use sheet 3, play accents with bassdrum and cymbal together, play 1 snaredrum 1 eight note before the accent if the accent is on a quarter note, play 2 eight note snare drums if the accent is on a syncopated eight note (after a quarter note)
Introduction: play swing + patterns
practice: play swing + patterns
assignment: practise variations from sheet also with longer fills (see sheet 15) and use toms as well
Lesson17 sheet 16
title: using triplet rudiments on toms
example/explanation: play right single note on floortom, left single note on hi tom, doubles on snare drum
Introduction: play variations from sheet
practice: play variations from sheet
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson18 sheet 17
title: more triplets in swing
example/explanation: swing + different variations see sheet
Introduction: play swing + different patterns
practice: play swing + different patterns
assignment: play swing + different patterns
Lesson19 sheet 18
title: ride cymbal variations
example/explanation: swing incombination with variations on the ride cymbal
Introduction: play swing + different variations from the sheet
practice: play swing + different variations from the sheet
assignment: play swing and different variations from the sheet in different combinations
Lesson20
title: time
practice
example/explanation: put metronome on medium tempo, play 4 bars swing, 4 bars even eights groove, half time / double time
Play swing with hihat on 2/4, 1/2/3/4, 1and/2and/3and/4and
Introduction: play swing + different snare drum comping patterns
practice: play in different tempos this exercise
assignment: play in different tempos this exercise
Lesson21 sheet 19
title: quarter triplets
example/explanation: swing + triplets (8 variations)
Introduction: play swing + variations using snare drum and bassdrum
practice: play swing + variations using snare drum and bassdrum
assignment: play swing + variations using snare drum and bassdrum
Lesson22 sheet 19A
title: 12/8 feel 1
example/explanation: 12/8 is a basic groove from Africa, used a lot in jazz
Introduction: play different variations (first part)
practice: play different variations (first part)
assignment: play different variations (first part)
Lesson23 sheet 19B
title: 12/8 feel 2
example/explanation: give extra examples (Michael Brecker Esher sketch, steve reich drumming)
Introduction: play different variations (second part)
practice: play different variations (second part)
assignment: play different variations (second part)
Lesson24 sheet 20
title: eight notes combinations
example/explanation: swing + different snaredrum and bassdrum variations
Introduction: play swing + different variations
practice: play swing + different variations
assignment: play swing + different variations
Lesson25 sheet 21
title: 3 over 4
example/explanation: swing + variation in 3 over 4 with snaredrum
Introduction: play swing + snare drum variations
practice: play swing + snare drum variations, use the exercise also with bassdrum or the ride cymbal
assignment: play swing + snare drum variations, use the exercise also with bassdrum or the ride cymbal
Lesson26 sheet 22 + 23
title: brushes part 1
example/explanation: ballad and medium swing with brushes
Introduction: play ballad and medium swing with brushes
practice: play balled (2 variations), swing (2 variations) with brushes
assignment: practise variations from sheet
Lesson27 sheet 22 + 23
title: brushes part 2
example/explanation: accents with brushes
Introduction: medium swing with eight note accent left and right
practice: medium swing with eight note accent left and right and ballad accents
assignment: practise accents
Lesson28 sheet 24
title: snare drum technic and reading
example/explanation: show example sheet 24 combination of 16th notes + rolls and dynamics
Introduction: play exercise
practice: practice in different tempos
assignment: practice in different tempos with bassdrum in quarters
Lesson29
title: uptempo playing
example/explanation: uptempo cymbal playing
Introduction: play uptempo cymbal, show dhump technic and phrasing on cymbal (more to even eight notes)
practice: play different tempos
assignment: play different tempos + using the cymbal variations (sheet 18)
Lesson30
title: form playing over a blues
example/explanation: explain blues form (3 chords 1-4-5), 12 bars
Introduction: play swing + 1 bar pattern on snare drum
practice: play swing + 1 bar pattern (snare drum for 1, tom for 4, floortom for 5)
assignment:
practice with real music
Lesson31
title: form playing over a AABA form standard (Stompin at the savoy)
example/explanation: make a difference in A and B
Introduction: play swing + different pattern in A and B
practice: play swing + different pattern in A and B
assignment: practise variations with real music
Lesson32
title: form playing over a ballad (Body and Soul)
example/explanation: explain to memorize the melody
Introduction: play ballad and melody on drum set
practice: play ballad and melody on drum set
assignment: practise with real music
Lesson33 sheet 25
title: bossa nova
example/explanation: bossa nova (Brazilian style)
Introduction: basic bossa nova
practice: bossa nova with all variations from sheet
assignment: bossa nova with all variations from sheet
and also with brushes (or one brush and 1 stick)
Lesson34 sheet 25
title: samba ‘feel’
example/explanation: play samba feel
Introduction: play samba feel with variations on snare drum
practice: play samba feel with variations on snare drum
Lesson35
title: 5 stroke rolls on the drumset
example/explanation: play 5 stroke rolls on the drum set
Introduction: play swing with 5 stroke roll fills also explain phrase transformed in 5 stroke rolls
practice: make your own 5 stroke roll fills on the drum set
assignment: make 5 stroke rolls with different rythmical phrases
Lesson36 sheet 27
title: basic 6/8
example/explanation: play 6/8 swing feel
Introduction: play swing and left hand comping
practice: play 6/8 feel with left hand comping
assignment: play 6/8 feel with left hand comping
Lesson37 sheet 28
title: play 5/4
example/explanation: play 5/4 swing feel
Introduction: play 5/4 swing feel with snaredrum, hihat and bassdrum
practice: different variations
assignment: make your own variations on snare drum
Lesson38 sheet 29
title: 4 after 4 solo
example/explanation: what is 4 after 4 solo?
Introduction: give different ideas about what to play in 4 after 4 using question and answer phrases
practice: different ideas
assignment: different ideas from sheet and make your own variations
Lesson39 sheet 30
title: comping in up tempos
example/explanation: what do you play with the snare drum and bassdrum in uptempos
Introduction: give different ideas about what to play, the more you play weith the righthand, the less you play with the left hand and the bassdrum
practice: practise uptempo with………. And play excersices from sheet 30
assignment:
Lesson40 sheet 31
title: open latin ideas
example/explanation: what means a ‘latin’ feel
Introduction: give different ideas about what to play
practice: different ideas
assignment: sheet 31
Lesson41 sheet 32
title: metric modulation
example/explanation: what is metric modulation, relation of 3 and 4
Introduction: give different ideas
practice: different ideas
assignment: sheet 32
Lesson42 sheet 33
title: ¾ relation in jazz and afro cuban
example/explanation: what is the relation of 3 and 4
Introduction: give different ideas in jazz and afro cuban
practice: different ideas
assignment: sheet 33
Lesson43 sheet 34
title: ghost notes in beats
example/explanation: what is a ghost note and function
Introduction: give different rythms
practice: excercises
assignment: sheet 34 + own variations
Lesson44 sheet 35
title: shuffles
example/explanation: what is shuffle
Introduction: shuffles with and without ghost notes
practice: sheet 35 with ghost notes
assignment: sheet 35 + different bassdrum patterns
Lesson45 sheet 36
title: linear playing in fills in uptempos
example/explanation: play linear over toms + set in up tempo
Introduction: give different ideas
practice: different ideas
assignment: sheet 36
Lesson46 sheet 37
title: ¾ triplets in 4/4
example/explanation: play ¾ in 4/4 swing
Introduction: give different ideas
practice: from sheet 37
assignment: make own variations
Lesson47 sheet 38
title: rudiments flams and drags
example/explanation: show flam / drag rudiments
Introduction: give different ideas + combinations
practice: from sheet
assignment: from sheet + own combinations
Lesson49 sheet 39
title: warming up in swing-2
example/explanation: show bd/sd triplets
Introduction: give different ideas
practice: sheet 39
assignment: make combionations
Lesson50 sheet 40
title: translating simple rudiments to fills
example/explanation: see sheet
Introduction: give different ideas
practice: with me
assignment: sheet 40 + play in the style of this idea