Hi, welcome back to Week 11 of drum lessons. This week, we're going to get heading towards the end and putting all of our pieces together. So the first thing we're going to work on in this week's practice video is playing the stop that connects the A section to the B section. But as important as knowing where the stop is, it's equally important to be able to enter after the stop going into the B section. Now the track that's playing along sometimes won't have the melody with it. So there's going to be no rhythm happening in that one bar.

So you're gonna have to learn how to feel that time going by without any reference. And this is a really important skill. Your whole body is rhythmic and you're built to be able to feel time and distance. It just takes a little bit of trusting yourself to know where that is. So in the practice video, you may feel like you've stepped into a big hole when the whole band stops after the butt to see if you can feel how far it is to the other side, a little bit like finding your way in the dark. So the other part we're going to work on is being able to play a fill at the end of every four bar phrase.

Now in the practice video, sometimes I'm going to be playing just a simple fill. But I really want to encourage you to try and do your own thing. And remember that the purpose when you're practicing is not to get everything perfect. In fact, if you're getting everything perfectly, you're practicing, you're not practicing anything hard enough. So try out new things, go for things and have it not work out and try and find your way back. It is equally important skill to be able to get back on the horse so to speak in the middle of a song, and these practice videos are designed for that.

So really take advantage of it. And then in the end, you're going to see if you can play all the way through the A B B section and see if you can catch where the stop is on your own. Feel that gap, play a fill in it, and then come back solidly into the B section. All right, excellent work and we'll see in the practice video.