Week 4 Assignment EDU 652

Thomas Wilson Lisa Marie Johnson

Creating & Implementing a Connect-Type Activity Demonstrating a Solo Demo Template For Our

Connect-Type Activity August 19, 2013

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

Once the student has become warmed up ….

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

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.

Are we there yet? Almost!

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!

References   Anatomy of Drum Solo –Neil Peart

  (2005) Hudson Music

  Progressive Independence-Rock

  Ron Spagnardi- (2013) revised

  http://www.amazon.com/Progressive-Independence-Comprehensive-Guide-Drumming/dp/142347712X