Entries about Exercise

Thom Hannum’s Triplet Check Patterns are designed to build a rhythmic vocabulary in the triplet feel. Like the Duple Check Patterns, they are a set of basic patterns that will ultimately help students play harder, more complex phrases.

Alex recently came up with a great idea: let’s chart our current proficiency level and the time between now and band camp, and measure the rate of improvement necessary to reach our desired level. The result: our Progress Table.

This exercise is designed to help battery players learn & practice “threes,” or groups of three notes played on the same hand.

Here are the parts for our Duple Roll exercise. The audio recording below is set at 100bpm. If this tempo isn’t right for you, play with your metronome to find a comfortable tempo. Then, using your progress table, keep track of your improvement each week.

Here is the sheet music for Section A of our Accent/Tap exercise. Please download and print your respective parts. Assignment: Learn and MEMORIZE this whole exercise for Tuesday, April 27.