Music Education - Drum Lessons Montreal by Jacob Kaye, drum set educator for all styles, all levels.

40 P.A.S. Drum Rudiments (page 1)
40 P.A.S. Drum Rudiments (page 2)
Drum Lessons (Correct Stick Movements)
Gladstone Technique - Free Stroke (Full and Half Strokes) with some editing, courtesy Tiger Bill
Moeller Method (Notation) courtesy Jim Chapin
Basic Rock Patterns
Funk with "implied" 3
Building a Stylistic Concept
Basic Latin Grooves pg. 1 G.E. based
Basic Latin Grooves pg 2 G.E. with additions

ESSENTIAL ADVICE ON PRACTISING

by Jacob Kaye

• "DAILY" - SESSIONS - The most effective way to develop long - lasting skills and the continued development of these "skills" (which you will require to exceed beyond your current "perceived - potential") is through daily sessions. "Practice - marathons" before lessons will NOT resolve the musical challenges you may have neglected during the week and result in what I refer to as "Cramming - practise".

• PARENTS - This is a Great Opportunity!!! for you to get involved with your younger children. They will really need your help and guidance to give them the tools to motivate them toward discipline in developing the "Habit of Practising"...which is one key to your child's success!!!

Inscription Reads: "To Jacob, best wishes" Joe Cusatis (Peter Nero trio)

• "ONE-A-DAY"- Spend enough time on each page to include all supplementary exercises assigned for your music lessons each and every day. Begin each session with a good progressive warm-up routine. (Drum Rudiments, Music Scales, etc.) Then, depending upon your level, the next step should be utilizing an established reading text to further develop you "reading skills". You'll need to Improve and/ or maintain Reading. Last but not least, for drum set, each day, use a text for Coordinated - Independence Development. For mallet/ tympani percussion develop a repertoire of established excerpts. This will depend on your skill level at the time.

• FOCUS - Focus your efforts on the drum set techniques, the "tools", you'll be taught to help you achieve your goals. Avoid wasting time learning the here-today-gone-tomorrow, "Impressive Patterns/ Solos"! If you need to work on the snare drum, for example, move it out, away from the rest of the drum set in order to avoid any temptation to play the drum set. You must, with certainty, use a practice pad for technique work. (Here, at the very least, a metronome is essential!)

• THE PARTICULARS - Make every effort, with absolute surety that you are performing the music according to the author's/ composer's intentions; rather than a perceived desire on your part for it to be performed any other way. Read more...