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Isabelle McKee
Past Notes
November 24th, 2025
We spent the first 15 minutes going through the three levels of the Drum Sight Reading exercise.
Drum Sight Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssC7VfkQWE
We then played through We Will Rock You by Queen a few times, and added Legends Never Die. (Video links are down below).
She did well on it, so at the end of the lesson we quickly looked at Counting Stars (but ran out of time).
November 17th, 2025
We started with sight reading drum patterns and rhythms, and then added We Will Rock You by Queen. Videos below:
Drum Sight Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssC7VfkQWE
Mastering Rhythms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp4flocUmxM
Queen, We Will Rock You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YA0D5VmyXM
November 3rd, 2025
Isabelle isn't able to come tonight.
October 27th, 2025
We went over the quarter note and eighth note beats and introduced the ride on the quarters.
We then did the reading exercise again, and were able to get through the first two lessons. Even without a drum set she should be able to practise these using her knees.
October 20th, 2025
Isabelle and I went over the quarter note and eigth note beat, using toms and crash on 4, 4-and, and 1.
Here's the reading exercise we started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssC7VfkQWE
October 6th, 2025
We started out with a simple level one YouTube video for Isabelle to play along with, but she felt rusty with drumming, and wasn't comfortable with reading the sheet music live along the screen.
We changed directions, and reviewed some basic beats: the quarter note, and eighth note beats... we worked on them for a while, and added crashes on 1 first, and then toms on beat 4 and "4-and"
Remember no lessons on Thanksgiving.