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	<title>North Andover Percussion &#187; Exercise</title>
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		<title>Triplet Check Patterns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Progress Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Threes Exercise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This exercise is designed to help battery players learn &#038; practice "threes," or groups of three notes played on the same hand.]]></description>
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		<title>Duple Rolls Exercise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Accent/Tap Exercise (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Accent/Tap Exercise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the sheet music for Section A of our Accent/Tap exercise. Please download and print your respective parts. There are no accents in the music. F-D-T-U are written in, indicating which stroke type should be played.]]></description>
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		<title>Full Down Tap Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a copy of the UMass Drumline&#8217;s Full-Down-Tap-Up exercise (pdf). It&#8217;s used to build a uniform technique by identifying &#38; combining the 4 stroke-types: Full, Down, Tap, and Up-stroke.
Audio Recording of FDTU

Full Stroke
A full stroke starts in the &#8220;up position,&#8221; with the bead of your stick or mallet 15 inches above the surface of [...]]]></description>
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