Personalized Video Evaluation
The Personalized Video Evaluation is used to maintain a student teacher relationship in an online format.
Once a month, you can submit a 2-3 minute video where you will perform the concepts or exercises taught in that month’s video lessons. Upon submission, your performance will be reviewed and a written evaluation of your progress will be sent back to you.
The benefit of the Personalized Video Evaluation is that it allows you to capture your best performance in a non-intimidating environment for evaluation.
Your video submissions will only be seen by Groove Is King staff.
Here is a sample of what to expect from a Personal Video Critique:
Sample Personalized Video Written Evaluation:
Well, first let me say John you’re doing great. I liked the passion you put into trying to make even the technical practice stuff feel good.
Assessment:
You are doing a good job with the stick heights and it seems like your understanding why you need dynamics. However, be sure to pay close attention to the way everything sounds in relation to each other. It sounded like the faster your tempo got, the more your focus shifted from groove and feel, to how fast can I play this to impress. Impressing me or anyone else is not important. Does it sound the way you know it should? Until you have the “feel” down at the slower tempos, don’t move up to the faster ones. There is no rush. The speed will come with time. But the speed will not be useable, and will not sound right, if you acquired that speed with bad technique.
Some things to help you improve:
Take the Band-n-a-Pods, and practice the 8th note and 16th note variations at several different dynamic levels from real soft, to real hard for extended periods of time on your practice pad. Do this with individual hands so you can isolate any technical breakdown between the two hands. After doing this take this technique to the drum kit and start on the snare drum, then gradually move it between different voices of the drums. (ie. Tom-Snare, HiHat-Snare, Floor Tom-Snare, Tom-Floor Tom, etc…) This will help develop the supporting muscles that will help you navigate around the kit more efficiently.
Alright, go get your groove on, and I’ll see you next time.
Ashley