That's What The Water Made Me

This is just a quick update on my drumming. I have learned the raw structure of the song We Weren't Born to Follow, but of course that does not mean that I will stop practising it as you can improve on it all the time. I've been playing the drums in the music room 1-2 times a week, every week. Recently I started playing a new song from Bon Jovi's new album call That's What The Water Made Me. It's great!

Paradiddles, singles and doubles

Finally! I have managed to play singles to doubles, doubles to singles, singles to single paradiddles and doubles to paradiddles at 60 bpm. Furthermore I have also been practicing a new song called 'Good Guys Don't Always Wear White' by Bon Jovi. However, I have also played song such as We Weren't Born to Follow and Thunderstruck. Keeping up with the music is not a huge problem anymore, but I am focusing on timing the fills right and using different fills. Also I have found a great site to teach me some easy grooves and beats, such as some interesting ghost notes grooves and some floor tom ones as well. Therefore my plan for next time is to keep practicing the songs and learn the new rudiments I've found.

The reflection on the second french lesson

In my view it went much better than the first lesson, but this time there was much more focus on learning than last time but there were still some games. I think that they have learned very much vocabulary over the two lessons of French we gave, as we tested them in the first few minutes of the lesson and most of them achieved 80% and above which is very good. The only negative in the planning was most probably that we had to improvise a game of drawing and guessing, because the presentation did not last as long as we expected it to last. However, in the end everybody enjoyed it and we solved this situation well. I think, that my public speech and teaching skills have definitely increased as I was not worried anymore to stand up in front of the class.

Let us once more see the opinions of the students collected in the end of the lesson:

"Great lesson! With funny game & questions!"

"Thank you for teaching us!!! I really liked when we drew the pictures and people had to guess them."

"Thank you for the lesson, I had fun, it was funny and now I remember the fruits and vegetables. Thank you."

As you can see, they really liked the drawing game, which I did and also the vocabulary, which will be really useful to them. In my view this was an excellent experience and I enjoyed it very much too.