Warms consisted of playing 4s (16th notes), then 3s (triplets), 2s (8th notes), then 1s (quarter notes) around the kit so, snare to tom1, tom 2, tom3 and so on. seeing how long can keep it going and gradually building up speed over time.
Another warm up was a triplet based warm up using the snare, and toms 1 and 3, how you would perform the warm up is the first hit is on tom3 (right hand) 2nd hit on snare with the left hand then the 3rd hit on the snare with the right hand then left hit on tom1 the right on snare then left on snare and so on, getting faster then afterwards adding to more hits so on on the toms and one on snare so 3-5-7 hits, then cycling through them, doing 3 hits, then 5 then 7 and back to 3.
Another warm which was taught, actually quite a tricky one at first, but once learnt, quite fun to play- basically its a [pro-active based beat splitting up your limbs so one is playing 3 the other 4 so 4 over 3 beat left hand hitting snare, tom1 then hi hat and the right hand playing snare, and the toms, however at first you hit each thing with hands in unison, then after you have learnt that then you would playing the hands giving separate hits. The final step to add would be adding a bass note after each hit with both hands so right hand left hand, then the bass drum, then after one could 2 bass notes after every two hits.
A couple of the fills we learned incorporated
The Hip hop beat The Nod being the main that we have been looking into, over the past few weeks, simple 4/4 beat with fairly simple fills at the end. A couple of off-beats but nothing to major.
8th and 16th notes with the bass drum and snare moved to weird places.
The hammer blow using a quarter note based beat to give it a heavier sound and therefore more impact in songs. The bass and snare at times are moved to off-beats.
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