One more way grooveKSQ can help young musicians advance their craft is by providing professional video and audio recording services in house!
The studio upgrades were designed to both facilitate distance learning and provide young musicians with a way to record themselves for solo performances or collaborations with other performers. grooveKSQ can now work on Protools (or any other DAW) based projects remotely.
Routine is important, particularly when you are warming up. Routine gives you a benchmark by which you can judge your progress. For example, if you play the same flam progression warmups everyday with a metronome, over time you will notice that you can play those progressions faster with good quality.
However, it is also extremely important to improvise or freeform during your practice. For example, yesterday I wanted to work on dexterity and sound quality moving around the toms. I didn’t have any preplanned patterns that I was going to work on, I just sat down and whatever came out of my hands was what it was. Very liberating, and it injects some freshness to your practice routines that will benefit you down the road.
Very pleased to announce that in person lessons will resume Saturday, June 6th. The studio will be cleaned (again!) and we will observe the following protocols:
Masks are REQUIRED of students and any family members to enter the studio. No exceptions.
Social distancing will be observed.
No handshakes, fistbumps, etc. Peace signs or shaka signs are encouraged however.
Students should make sure they have their own sticks. We will not need headphones because all the practice tracks will played through the PA.
If you have a fever, or have any symptoms, please do not come in. We will make arrangements to provide a credit or video lessons.
If students or parents are uncomfortable with in person lessons, that is totally respected, and we can continue by video. There are some significant upgrades to the studio happening in the next two weeks to enhance our ability to deliver education over video.
There will be a separate announcement about Virtual Vinyl, the Summer Groovefest, and related activities coming soon.
(PS…this announcement assumes that Chester County is moved to the Yellow Phase by June 5th as the Governor’s office previously announced).
Last night saw another edition of Virtual Vinyl, which featured some recordings that you should check out. Twitch turned out to be a wonderful platform, and one which I’ll use more in the future.
You can view the stream here below.
There is a new program offering here at grooveKSQ: The Wednesday Throwdown. This is a weekly short group workout focusing on building speed and endurance for your hands. All you need is your pad, a pair of sticks and your smart phone.
This program is delivered by Zoom, so click the links for the monthly pass or the weekly pass. If you stick with these sessions, your hand speed will greatly increase, I promise you. But you have to prepare and do the work.
**NOTE, this event is free to current drumset students, but email me for the materials.
We haven't posted a product video in quite awhile. This is an A/B comparison of Remo Coated Ambassadors and Evans 56 Calftones. Shot with an iPhone, using the onboard mic so you have a familiar sound on which to base your evaluation.
The next step is to do new batter side heads all around the kit and I will post some video of that very soon. Other things you should know: the drum kit is a Ludwig Legacy Classic, which is Ludwig's 1960s build: 3 ply maple/poplar/maple with a 30 degree rounded bearing edge.
As always, there is no payment or endorsement deal for any product that we feature, it is solely for informational purposes only.