Track Student Progress
Each term we will be tracking selected students to demonstrate their progress in one to one or small group lessons. Please check again soon for updates.
Beni Parradiddles Part Two
Posted: 21/10/14
Great lesson today with Beni! We developed the Parradiddles from last week now using Hi Hat, Toms and Ride Cymbals. Look at how fast and smooth he can play them!! Then we grooved on the Latin beat! I’m thinking Beni (11) Jack (13) Reece (7) Jacob (6) me ( very old now) handsome Dan the tutor and cool Alex the […]
Read more »Foxhill Year 3 Drum Group Next Stage of their Christmas Piece
Posted: 21/10/14
The Year 3 Drum Group at Foxhill are consistently impressive! Today we perfected the middle section of their Christmas Concert piece and it sounded amazing! We took a Latin feel with the boys mixing semi quaver rim strikes with Snare and Floor Tom strikes whilst the girls maintained a funky little pattern using Toms and Rim Shots. The boys then […]
Read more »Reece : End of Term Achievements on Bass and Drums
Posted: 21/10/14
Reece has had a great term! Check out the videos below to see how far he has come on Bass and Drums. DRUMS Today in Drums we have been perfecting a middle section for his school Drum Group Concert piece. Here we see Reece having learnt a really great Latin feel groove cleverly using semi quavers and giving the effect […]
Read more »Is this our next new Drummer at Dixons Music Primary?
Posted: 17/10/14
Today we all had a turn playing the Drum Kit in our music lesson, we had so much fun.
Read more »Who has been playing on the Drum Kit at Dixons Music Primary?
Posted: 17/10/14
Look who was playing the Drum Kit, I wonder if she was in time?
Read more »Year 2 Students Working on The Christmas Concert Opening Piece at Dixons Music Primary
Posted: 16/10/14
It was a very magical morning today when Alison started rehearsals for the Dixons Music Primary Christmas Concert and the piece, The Little Drummer Boy, that the students will play to open the performance. Have a listen to this piece! Amazing work with the Year 1 and 2 students!
Read more »Wow Look at our Year 1 Drum Superstar at Dixons Music Primary
Posted: 16/10/14
Alison was absolutely blown away this afternoon when she went into Mr Hill’s Drum lesson with one of our up and coming Year 1 Drumming superstars! Here are three extracts of this five year old playing a combination of fly, spider and caterpillars on the Drum pads then on the Drum Kit whilst Mr Hill tried to put him off […]
Read more »Matt is Working Hard on Grade 6 Guitar
Posted: 14/10/14
Wow, Matt is working really hard on perfecting one of his Rockschool grade 6 Electric Guitar pieces. Pieces at this level are not at all easy but here is Matt making it look very easy. Keep checking ‘Track Student Progress’ to see how Matt is preparing for the grade 6 exam.
Read more »Tracking Beni on the Drums: Parradiddle time again!!
Posted: 14/10/14
Beni in Year 7 is doing a great job on the Drums. As part of his preparation for the Rockschool grade 4 Drum exam Beni has to play various Parradiddle exercises. In order to support his development of the Parradiddle technique I have set Beni a 4 part exercise featuring Parradiddles around the Drum kit. See part 1 below where […]
Read more »Dixons Music Primary pupil putting extra rehearsal time in.
Posted: 10/10/14
Those caterpillars take some work, but not as much work as setting up the kit did and still 2 cymbals missing?!
Read more »Dixons Music Primary found their own “BOOM” !!
Posted: 10/10/14
Today Y2 pupils found their own “Boom” and made the Drum kit sound without playing it. Everyone could do it when Mrs Baker showed them how to do it. At first we thought it was magic. When we all played together the Drum Kit echo was longer!
Read more »Dixons Music Primary pupils learn to hold their new Djembes.
Posted: 10/10/14
Year 2 pupils today were excited to be playing on bigger Djembes. Look how well we can hold them. They sounded super!!
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