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Originally Posted by xxvenom13xx  Ok, so I know that this is Drumset Connect, but I am currently only able to play percussion such as the xylophone and such due to my ankle condition.
Right now I am teaching high-school kids from my old school mallets, and am trying to write warm-ups that are interesting and not boring, yet teach them to move around the keyboard with ease.
I have made a double stops exercises, scales/green scales exercises, and doubles with different notes. Does anyone think I should incorporate rudiments such as paradiddles and double strokes into my warm-ups?
This is elementary marching music, and I am making a majority of it the B flat major, C major, A flat major, F major, and G major scales.
If anyone has any suggestions on teaching these nutcases, please tell me! |
I admire your determination. I spent a good 5 years teaching HS drum lines after graduating HS and having done my time in a drum corps (Anaheim Kingsmen).
What I had found to be good was to take the exercises the drum line was working on and write out melodies using the same exercises, so when they played as a group, the mallets had something to play with the drum line. This could be scales, or rudiments on one note (minus the flams or drags for now). You may already be doing that but that's what I did back in the day. And of course, just having them play music is also a good approach since they have to learn notes anyway, it'll be applied rudiments to the music they have in hand, and that works too.
Perhaps you could get an easy Bach piano book (Like Anna Magdelena's Notebook), and split the parts up and use those as reading exercises. Plus it gives them more music to be playing, which on that level, is really what they need to be doing. Don't spend too much time on the theoretical, I'm sure you guys have football games you need to be getting ready for!