Hello Everyone!
Noreet:
Welcome back! We were talking about the student recital before you left for Europe, it was supposed to be May 4th in person but unfortunately we had to cancel. However we are offering a digital recital instead! Today Noreet recorded “Ice Cream” and “More Ice Cream” to be added to the digital recital. Barnaby will be compiling all the submitted student performance videos for families to watch and enjoy at home! We also reviewed Daydream. Noreet can slowly start to play this song hands together. Warm up with the 3-5-4 exercise at the top of the page. When practicing, review the right and left hand separately to start, then try playing the first phrase hands together slowly. Once you feel confident with how to two parts line up musically and how they feel together in your hands, you can practice the second phrase hands together. Repeat the process until you can navigate the whole song hands together. We can review any challenging areas next week.
Vida:
(Assignments from our make-up class, May 17th)
It was great to see you at Lawrence Park today! Now that you are confident with both the right and left hands of “Under the Sea” work towards playing the whole song hands together. Play slowly to allow your hands the time to line up in the music. Pay close attention to the macro beat of the song. Write this in like we did with the first bar if the visual helps you to see which hand moves first. Remember that the left hand is twice as slow as it is mostly half notes – your right hand will move faster than your left. Once you can confidently play the whole song with both hands, we can learn Ed Sheeran’s “Under the Tree” or another song from your list. Focus on playing the first phrase hands together, reviewing the song hands separate in between if necessary. Once you feel confident playing the first phrase hands together, you can work on the second phrase hands together. Repeat this process for the whole song. For Mr. McGill’s Boop Sha Bop, focus on the highlighted bars (sticky notes). Isolate these bars, follow the instructions on the sticky note (faster eighth notes, slower quarter notes, play through the bar to the next bar), then go back and play the song again with these corrections in mind. Practicing with the metronome will help highlight some of these challenges. Aim for a tempo of 100BPM. Finally, sight read Loch Ness! We will review this together in class next week.
Eva:
Sorry we missed you this week! I look forward to hearing you play “Sailing in the Sun” next week!
Christian:
I hope you had a safe flight and are enjoying the wedding in Mexico!
Thank you everyone!
I look forward to learning more music next week!
Have a great long weekend!