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Grayson Morey
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April 22nd, 2025
We start out with reviewing some songs. We did:
Circles, Levitating, Dance Monkey, The Ocean, and How Far I'll Go.
We tried adding a new one, but ran out of time. If he wants to work on a new song this week from home, try We Will Rock You. Here's the video:
https://youtu.be/2YA0D5VmyXM
April 15th, 2025
We went over Levitating twice, and I gave him a mark of 6/10 the first time, and 8/10 on the last time.
We then did Circles, and I gave him a 7 the first time, and an 8 the second time.
We then did Dance Monkey and I gave him a 6 on this one.
Lastly we added Ocean, and he sight read it the first time through.
April 8th, 2025
Grayson played through a bunch of songs - Circles is coming along really well. We also did Get Lucky, How Far I'll Go, Dance Monkey, and added Dua Lupa, Levitating.
April 1st, 2025
We reviewed Circles, How Far I'll Go, and looked at Dance Monkey again. After doing that twice we did Can't Feel My Face a few times.
Grayson is really coming along!
March 25th, 2025
We reviewed Circles, Get Lucky, and Dance the Night and How Far I'll Go, and then added Dance Monkey.
Circles and How Far I'll Go especially are improving. The other two are maybe a bit hard, but he can get them if he really dedicates time to it.
Dance Monkey he's picked up really quickly. It's just close enough to Circles that I think it's a natural next step to learn.
March 18th, 2025
We went over Circles about 3 times, Get the Lucky twice, and Dance the Night once.
Then we added a new one, How Far I'll Go from Moana.
Grayson is getting better. Next steps are to really listen to the speed of the song (and the volume) and try to match it.
March 11th, 2025
Grayson did well today. Not hitting quite as hard too, which my ears appreciate! haha!
We went through Circles a couple of times, with his sister Sophia playing along. We then added Get Lucky and played it through twice.
March 4th, 2025
We started with going over Circles twice at full speed. There were a few sections that Grayson just missed... so we tried slowing it down to 80% speed, and I think he was able to keep up with it a bit better.
We then reviewed Dance The Night at 100% speed, but it was too hard for him... There were parts of that were getting there. Definitely needs more practise.
We then slowed it down to 70% to try to help him out a bit. I think it did somewhat. He's going to probably have to put a lot more time in at home to people to play the drum fills properly etc.
At the end of the lesson we worked again on the reading exercises. He's got the first two down fairly well, just needs to count a bit more carefully.
February 25th, 2025
Grayson played through Circles for me, at regular speed, and we did it twice. We then played the exercises, but he was having trouble with them again.
After that we added Dance the Night by Dua Lipa (video below), and played it a few times.
Good job! Keep it up, Grayson!
February 18th, 2025
We started with going over the exercises, and Grayson struggled with the last two. I decided to use the rest of the lesson to show him the basics of the electric kit. We set it up and played through it a bit with me on the acoustic guitar.
February 11th, 2025
We continued working on the exercises and also on Circles. I think Grayson had forgotten to work on the exercises perhaps? At least he said he hadn't practised them. Here's the link again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssC7VfkQWE
The Circles link is in the song list below.
February 4th, 2025
We continued working on the beginner exercises for most of the lesson. At the end we tried to look at Circles, but ran out of time before we could get going on it.
January 28th, 2025
Gray and I continued working through the exercise video. If he continues playing with this at home it will help with his note reading and comprehension for which instrument is where on the staff lines.
After that we looked at Circles, the video is below. He was having a bit of trouble with following it, so we focused instead on just playing the eighth note beat. He has a slight issue with not paying attention, so I have to interrupt his attention sometimes. I also asked him to not play quite so hard, because it's hard on my drum heads, and my ears. :)
If you hear him playing too loudly at home, as him to keep it medium level instead.
January 21st, 2025
We spent most of the lesson going over the exercises 1 and 2. Grayson was more focused today, and did well.
At the end I tried to show him a simple quarter note beat, but we ran out of time before we had much chance to do anything with it.
January 14th, 2025
This was Grayson's first week. He was very excited!
We did the names of the drums to start, and then I showed him the beginner exercises for learning to read. We went over part 1, and the first line of part 2. Here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssC7VfkQWE
Thanks!
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