WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENTEDU 697

DR. KEITH PRESSEYTHOMAS WILSON

DEC 19, 2013Redesign Of A Previous Assignment

The Ethical Considerations andChallenges Of The Connect Type

Activity Which Was A Drum Solo Tutorial

How to start a Drum Solo It begins with an idea you the student

have thought of from some type of inspiration and you work over a period of time developing it

The Drummer has begun by warming up …

by doing practice drills to their favorite practice loop of music samples

The Importance of “Staying On Task”

We saw in the previous slide what the payoff can be if the student/client sticks to the protocol.

We spoke in the previous slide about what we

mean when we say “we never break protocol”

the 2 Skill-set methodology was written with

precisely this consideration in mind…..

Once the student has become warmed up ….

they should be loosened up, limber and able to begin their exploration of their solo creative process

More about “staying on task”how to encourage your student

Slides 7-11 Were NecessarilyIn the “Tutor-to-Student”

role to show “how-to-teach-a-student” where to begin to create a drum solo. This redesign was

not that hard as we discussed this in the Week 3 Discussion, the hard part is to get students to understand the seriousness of this and that it is

their time which is being utilized or wasted and as an professional tutor (teacher-at-large) to always do your due diligence (having a written agreement) about acceptable and unacceptable

practices which can cause termination of your…

References Anatomy of Drum Solo –Neil Peart (2005) Hudson Music Progressive Independence-Rock Ron Spagnardi- (2013) revised http://www.amazon.com/Progressive-Inde

pendence-Comprehensive-Guide-Drumming/dp/142347712X

Now to the template, how to begin a drum solo…

It normally starts with a beat in your head, a rhythm you keep hearing and you cannot rest till you write it down and then play it!

Now you are starting to do some impromptu…

jamming (playing) which will help you to think “in the moment” the shuffle beat continues “boompa-bomp, boompa-bomp” you continue adding accents (light strokes on the crash, or transitioning to the ride and keeping time on it) on the cymbals. You learn to add random strokes on the toms, called …

We have a reason for everything we have you

do here! You are learning to play and improvise which is at the “heart and soul” of solo drumming!

Congratulations! You have just played …

the opening groove to “Ain’t that a shame” by Bun E. Carlos on “Cheap Trick-Live at Budokan”

You should record one or more of your run-throughs on this groove.

We cannot tell you what to do with you solo but…

here we have provided you with enough “food for thought” to encourage and motivate you!