This second part of my post in regards to my first drum lesson that occurred on Monday, March 11, 2013 with my new drum instructor Jack I. Hall at Willis Music Store here in Louisville, Ky. This part of the lesson focused on the application of the Musial Theory with a series of practice measures that included a mixture of sixteenth, eighth and quarter notes. If you missed the first posting on in this series, check it here: Drum Lesson 1 - Musical Theory.
Here are the important points that these series of practice measures are going to help teach and re-enforce. First, it helps to get the student reading the various notes to ingrain them into memory so that he/she can learn the new language of musical notation. Second, is to keep time by counting in sixteenth notes for the duration of the measure (1,e, &, a, 2,e,&,a, 3, e, &, a, 4, e, &, a) and by practicing the measures with a metronome.
Let me first list out the worksheet that he prepared for me to study and practice until my next lesson and then I will break each of them down and provide what notes and the keys to each.
The first measure below starts with two eighth notes, followed by four sixteenth notes, two eighth notes counted and ends with a quarter note. The key to this measure is keeping the time by keep counting in sixteenth notes. Notice that in the first, third and fourth sets of notes, we have count in sixteenths, but wit do not play on the e and a of the first or second set of eighth notes, and we don't play the e, &, a for the quarter note in the fourth set of notes. Remember that keeping time along with playing the beats of the various notes are goals of this exercise..
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| Measure 1 |
The second measure below starts with with a set of four sixteenth notes, followed by two eight notes and then two sets of sixteenth notes. Nothing really out of the ordinary here, these notes where introduced in Measure 1 above. Somewhat straight forward, just keep counting in sixteenth notes the whole measure.
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| Measure 2 |
The third measure below includes two groups of four sixteenth notes, followed by two eighth notes then another group of four sixteenth notes. The first thing to watch out for in this measure is the first sixteenth note, it is one of the two variations that I mentioned in part one of this lesson. The key here is that the e note (second sixteenth note) is not played and I included a sixteenth note rest there, however most of the time it is written with no rest. The second and third set of notes are basic, but notice that the last set of sixteenths are the same variation as the first in this measure; again the e note is not played.
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| Measure 3 |
The fourth measure below includes four sets of sixteenth notes. The key to watch out for in this measure is the first set of sixteenth notes, which is the other variation that I talked about in the first part of this lesson with the a note (fourth note) not being played. I included a rest here, but usually it is written without the rest. The other thing to watch out for is the third and fourth sets of sixteenths, they are the other variation of the sixteenth note with the e note played (second note) not being played.
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| Measure 4 |
This last measure below starts off with three sets of sixteenth notes followed by a quarter note. The key to this measure, the first sixteenth note is a one of the variations and the second is the other variation of the sixteenth note. The third set of sixteenth notes are straight and the quarter is just of course played on the beat of four.
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| Measure 5 |
There is nothing to complicated about these five measures, however they provided a good set for practice, getting your coordination going and visual learning on the various musical notation that you will encounter. The keys to these are to watch out for the two variations of the sixteenth note and keeping time by counting in sixteenth notes (1, e, &, a, etc.) for the whole measure. I hope that you find this article useful and if you have any questions or comments, pass them along to me and I will give you the best answer that I can. Until next time!!!.
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