Evaluating the Beginning Snare Drummer
15.10.2024
Band teachers: Learn how to test beginning snare drummers by providing clear goals for both yourselves and your students.
00:00 Intro to snare drum evaluation
00:54 How to think about evaluation for the beginner
01:24 What to focus on
02:02 How to use The Band Teachers Percussion Guide
03:03 Suggested points to test
03:22 Point 1
03:46 Point 2
04:16 Point 3
04:58 Point 4
05:32 Point 5
Sample Snare Test: https://stewarthoffmanmusic.com/?p=...
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The "Burton" 4-Mallet Vibraphone Grip
23.10.2013
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Matched Grip for Snare drum
16.10.2013
Stewart Hoffman explains the matched grip for the snare drum.
See Stewart's "The Band Teacher's Percussion Guide: Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion" (Oxford University Press) (https://www.amazon.com/Band-Teacher... for answers to all your questions about playing and teaching percussion.
A Relaxed Approach to Snare Drum Technique
15.03.2010
http://www.StewartHoffmanMusic.com Stewart Hoffman discusses his snare grip, stroke and hand position. See Stewart's "The Band Teacher's Percussion Guide: Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion" (Oxford University Press) (https://www.amazon.com/Band-Teacher... for answers to all your questions about playing and teaching percussion.
Playing and Teaching the Buzz Roll (Workshop Excerpt: NYSSMA Convention 2017)
11.01.2018
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Video from the NYSSMA (New York State School Music Association) Winter Convention 2017, in Rochester NY. Stewart discusses playing and teaching buzz rolls. From his workshop: "Teaching a Relaxed Percussion Technique".
Teaching Single Strokes for Snare Drum, Part 1
28.10.2020
Stewart Hoffman explains how to teach snare drum students to play single strokes that are relaxed, controlled and sensitive to the rebound off the drum.
Visit https://stewarthoffmanmusic.com/ban... to explore Stewart's "Band Teacher's Percussion Guide: Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion" (Oxford University Press)
Teaching Double Strokes for Snare Drum, Part 1
02.08.2020
Stewart Hoffman explains how to teach students to play double strokes on the snare drum that are relaxed, controlled and sensitive to the rebound off the drum.
Visit https://stewarthoffmanmusic.com/ban... to explore Stewart's "Band Teacher's Percussion Guide: Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion" (Oxford University Press)
Teaching Mallet Instruments in the Junior High and High School Band Class
26.11.2019
Visit https://www.StewartHoffmanMusic.com for videos and blogs and information about "The Band Teachers Percussion Guide" from Oxford University Press.
Watch Stewart Hoffman, author of "The Band Teachers' Percussion Guide: Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion", demonstrate 6 essential points to keep in mind when teaching xylophone, marimba or vibraphone in the junior high or high school band class.
Teaching a Relaxed Snare Drum Stroke
13.06.2021
Watch how percussionist, author, and educator Stewart Hoffman shows students how to release tension in the arm, wrist and hand to play with a relaxed stroke. Video taken from the Companion Website (https://bit.ly/3zmV0eC) to The Band Teacher´s Percussion Guide, from Oxford University Press (https://amzn.to/2TXWFal)
Visit http://www.StewartHoffmanMusic.com for more videos and articles on playing and teaching percussion.
Teaching Lifts and Levels for Snare Drum
16.01.2022
Stewart Hoffman explains how to teach "lifts and levels", a snare drum technique that will lead to a more relaxed and controlled stroke and effortless dynamic control.
Visit https://stewarthoffmanmusic.com/ban... to explore Stewart's "Band Teacher's Percussion Guide: Insights into Playing and Teaching Percussion" (Oxford University Press)
Playing and Teaching Paradiddles with Lifts and Levels
26.01.2022
Stewart Hoffman, percussionist and author of The Band Teacher's Percussion Guide (Oxford University Press) explains fundamental techniques and pedagogy for playing and teaching paradiddles on snare drum.
Links to Stewart's related videos and blogs:
Watch Practising Paradiddles here: https://bit.ly/PractisingParadiddle...
Watch Teaching Lifts and Levels here: https://bit.ly/3H7Q1SL
Read the "Percussion Talk" blog Teaching and Playing Paradiddles: https://bit.ly/35sxEtX
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Practising Two Beat Fills Around the Drum Set
12.02.2022
Learn how to create musical two beat fills by taking simple rhythms then orchestrating them to play around the drum set. Practise these short, 16th note-based fills to develop a solid sense time, rhythm and feel for the bar.
Read more about playing and teaching Two Beat Drum Fills here: https://stewarthoffmanmusic.com/pra...
Download all the notated fills, plus a few ideas for further orchestrations here:
https://bit.ly/two-beat-fills
0:00 Introduction
Fills
0:57 1A
1:32 1B
2:06 1C
2:39 1D
3:12 1E
3:52 2A
4:25 2B
4:58 2C
5:32 2D
6:05 2E
Practising Paradiddles
02.03.2022
Join Stewart Hoffman for a guided session practising paradiddles in real time. Learn how to play quickly with a controlled, relaxed snare drum technique - and how to stay focused during a short but intense and effective practise session.
Links to Stewart's related videos and blogs:
Watch Teaching and Playing Paradiddles here: https://bit.ly/3KeKDOT
Watch Teaching Lifts and Levels here: https://bit.ly/3H7Q1SL
Read the "Percussion Talk" blog Teaching and Playing Paradiddles: https://bit.ly/35sxEtX
Explore The Band Teacher's Percussion Guide (Oxford University Press): https://bit.ly/PercussionGuide
Follow Stewart on:
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0:05 introduction
1:50 quarter notes at 50 bpm
2:51 quarter notes at 80 bpm
3:33 quarter notes at 112 bpm
4:12 eighth notes at 80 bpm
4:50 eighth notes at 104 bpm
5:20 sixteenth notes at 60 bpm
5:59 sixteenth notes at 69 bpm
6:40 sixteenth notes at 80 bpm
7:16 sixteenth notes at 88 bpm
7:52 sixteenth notes at 96 bpm
8:27 sixteenth notes at 104 bpm
9:04 sixteenth notes at 112 bpm
9:38 sixteenth notes at 120 bpm
KCS Grades 5 and 6 Snare Drum Test
09.02.2011
Stewart Hoffman explains to beginning students how to practise and perform buzzes and flams for an assigned test. Visit "The Band Teacher's Percussion Guide" at http://www.StewartHoffmanMusic.com
Study Percussion with Stewart Hoffman: Private or Group Lessons for Band Teachers
21.06.2022
Band teachers, join Stewart Hoffman, Juilliard grad and author of The Band Teacher's Percussion Guide (Oxford University Press) for percussion lessons that set teachers and students alike on the road to classroom success.
As well as teaching fundamental percussion techniques, Stewart draws from years of experience teaching privately and conducting classes in Toronto's public school system to explain how to best teach those techniques to percussion students.
Contact information to Study with Stewart: https://stewarthoffmanmusic.com/con...
Stewart's Percussion Education videos: https://stewarthoffmanmusic.com/vid...
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Hi all, Evaluating snare drummers in band class, especially beginners, is challenging. While your other instrumentalists have to think about their embouchure, breathing, posture and fingering just to produce a note, drummers can just drop the stick onto the drum and play a few quarter notes without giving it much thought at all. So what does a teacher evaluate?![]()
Watch my latest video, Beginning Snare Drum Evaluation, to discover how to approach testing in a new way - by focusing your drummers' awareness on important technical points. Evaluation will be a breeze . . . plus, you'll be guiding your drummers toward the development of a solid technique.![]()
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Be sure to download the Sample Test here: lnkd.in/djZ6fBGd
Evaluating the Beginning Snare Drummer
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Band teachers: Learn how to test beginning snare drummers by providing clear goals for both yourselves and your students.00:00 Intro to snare drum evaluation...
The great vibraphonist, Stefan Bauer with bassist Matthias Akeo Nowak - both in from Germany - and Toronto's legendary Terry Clarke on drums rehearsing for their gig at Toronto's Jazz Bistro, Friday Oct. 4 and Saturday Oct. 5 (first sets start at 8:30). Rounding out the band Mosaic is tenor saxophonist Matthew Halpin, arriving in town tomorrow from Germany. Don't miss this very special event!
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