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Class: Music Beginner Drum Lessons
Class Length: 5 weeks
Schedule: 4-day/week lesson plan
Resources needed:
Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com
Instructions: This suggested lesson plan is broken down into separate weeks and days. On the line beside each
day, write the specific day of the month you would like your student to complete each assignment (consider writing
dates in pencil). As your student completes each assignment, he/she can mark the check box beside it. When the
entire lesson has been completed, come back to this page and mark the check box beside that lesson. Once the
entire course has been completed, consider printing out a Certificate of Completion as well.
Use the note boxes on each page to provide further instructions, leave a message for your student, remind yourself
about the details of a particular lesson, and so on.
Lessons Completed (check the following boxes as you have completed each lesson)
Week 1: Lessons 13
Week 2: Lessons 45
Week 3: Lessons 67
Week 4: Lessons 89
Week 5: Lessons 1012
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Week 1: Lessons 13
NOTES:
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Download Lessons.
Watch Lesson One video Introduction to Rhythmic Magic.
Read and complete Lesson One text.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Watch Lesson Two video About Your Instructor.
Read and complete Lesson Two text.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Watch Lesson Three video Simple Principles of Music Highlights.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read and complete Lesson Three text.
Week 2: Lessons 45
NOTES:
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Watch Lesson Four video Understanding Rhythm with Rhythmic Magic.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read and complete Lesson Four text.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Watch Lesson Five video Making Anything a Percussion Instrument.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read and complete Lesson Five Text.
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Week 3: Lessons 67
NOTES:
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Watch Lesson Six video Technique.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read and complete Lesson Six text.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Watch Lesson Seven video Quarter Note Groove.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read and complete Lesson Seven text.
Week 4: Lessons 89
NOTES:
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Watch Lesson Eight videoEighth Note Groove.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read and complete Lesson Eight text.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Watch Lesson Nine video Triplet Groove or Slow Shuffle.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Read and complete Lesson Nine text.
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Week 5: Lessons 1012
NOTES:
Day 1 | Date: _________________________________
Watch Lesson Ten video Broken-Shuffle Groove.
Day 2 | Date: _________________________________
Read and complete Lesson Ten text.
Day 3 | Date: _________________________________
Watch Lesson Eleven video The Swing Groove.
Read and complete Lesson Eleven text.
Day 4 | Date: _________________________________
Watch Lesson Twelve video Sixteenth Note Groove.
Read and complete Lesson Twelve text.