Michelle's Drum Lesson Notes

4/4 3/4 5/4 2/4-roll. Moeller hat, Outkast

Blocks of Rock to 58 #10. 2 against 3 and 3 against 4 polyrhythms.

Blocks of Rock page 49. page 54,55. Ticket to Ride.

Blocks of Rock page 52 based on the Inner Paradiddle

Displacement 3 kicks. In Bloom.

Displacement two kicks. In Bloom.

Displacement bass drum

Blocks of Rock thru page 46. Moeller on hats for one-handed 1/16ths. Tom Sawyer - Rush. Kicking on the down strokes and switching kicks to the upstroke.

Fives around the kit. Samba, with 1/8th hats, ride variations, 1/4, 1/8th, 1/16th, 1e..2e..etc. Bossa Nova.

Fives around the kit. Deacon Blues - Steely Dan

Building Blocks of Rock, page 39 #12, Sweet Emotion -Aerosmith.

Building Blocks of Rock, page 37.

Building Blocks of Rock, page 37. We Got the Beat - Go Gos. Paranoid - Black Sabbath Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin. Syncopation Lesson Ten, Lesson Eleven

Building Blocks of Rock, page 37. We Got the Beat - Go Gos. MistyMountain Hop - Led Zeppelin. Lloyd Ryan vs. Jeff Indyke.

Building Blocks of Rock, page 30 #13-16, 31, 33 "Four on the Floor", Another One Bites the Dust - Queen, page 34, Four on the Snare, Train Beat. Double Stroke Rolls. Practice Page 35

Building Blocks of Rock, page 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. To avoid clicking your sticks by accident, hit your hi-hats more to the left of where you normally do. Practice page 29 & 30.

Building Blocks of Rock, page 26.

Building Blocks of Rock, Block #2 - practice 11 - 14. Block #4, page 21 - practice #3 & 8, 9. Up to page 26 #8.

Building Blocks of Rock, Block #3

Blocks of Rock page 17 #3 (2-bar patterns), Come As You Are

Block of Rock page 16 #7, A Hard Day's Night

Paradiddles