Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving is approaching, and as grooveKSQ enters its third year (already!), there are many things and people to be thankful for:

The students, who work hard to get better every week, and come up with interesting ideas for material to develop;

The parents, for supporting the students, bringing them to and from lessons, and reminding the students to practice;

The donors who have made financial contributions to assist in carrying out grooveKSQ’s programming; and

The business partners who have sponsored events, or have participated in projects with us.

THANK YOU ALL, without this tremendous growing community, none of our programming would happen. There are big plans for 2021 that I will share with you in the coming weeks. Until then, I hope that you all stay safe during this challenging time.

November Transcription Challenge Answer

My friends, we have talked about this month’s transcription challenge in our lessons, and now finally, here is the answer key below. We will do another one of these in December.

Transcription Challenge #1 ... by Bryan Tuk Drums

Wednesday Throwdown November 11th

If you missed today’s livestream, you can view it below:

groovetuk went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Music & Performing Arts VOD now.

Transcription Challenge #1

For those who told me you wanted to work on your transcription skills, here you go:

Time signature = 4/4. The first note is the downbeat of beat 1, measure 1. There are 8 measures total.

These will get more challenging as we go along.

Assignment: transcribe this, send me a picture or scan of your transcription and I'll reveal the correct answer online this Friday (11/6/2020).

Student Video: Thomas L.

Here at groove, we use video a lot, because it is the single best tool for self analysis. Check out this play through video from Thomas L, covering “Rosanna” by Toto. This is a difficult song to play from both a technical standpoint and a feel standpoint, and takes a long time to get under control.

grooveTALK, Ep. 2: John Evans, principal timpanist Naples Philharmonic

John Evans, principal timpanist, is in his thirtieth season with The Naples Philharmonic Orchestra. He received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from The Ohio State University and a Master of Music degree from Temple University, where he was a student of Alan Abel, former associate principal percussionist of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

This is a great conversation that contains many lessons for aspiring professionals.