Hello Everybody!

This semester’s progress reports have gone out! Please review these and let me know if you have any questions. Also, just a reminder that our recital has been postponed to June! Official date TBD, but all students should be reviewing their chosen piece over the next few weeks so they’re ready to play in June!

 

Georgia

Georgia has chosen the Minuet and Trio for the recital in June! She should continue to practice playing this song in the next coming weeks. We reviewed the C Major and G Major triads this week as well. Georgia should use these as a warm up, playing the root/first inversion/second inversion/root pattern both broken and solid. Georgia’s dedication to practicing this week was evident! Keep it up!

Noreet

Noreet has chosen Ode to Joy for the recital in June! When practicing this song, please encourage Noreet to watch the notes on the page and not her hands. She can glance to double check her hand positioning, but her eyeline should be on the page, not the keys. For warm up this week Noreet can continue to use the chromatic scale, starting on C. She should also start practicing her scales hands together! Start with C Major and G Major hands together, we will add more next week.

Clara

This week we reviewed Ukrainian Folk song, which is a contender for the recital in June! When practicing this song this week, Clara should review each hand separately. She should focus specifically on the left hand and the contour of the line to make sure Clara can confidently navigate the bass notes while playing hands together. Ask her to identify the interval of any large jumps and to circle the passing or neighboring tones she sees in the bass line to help deepen Clara’s understanding of the components of the phrase. When practicing the whole song hands together, Clara should focus on bringing the song up to tempo. She can start under, at 80BPM, and slowly increase from there. Should she start to drag as the tempo increases, remind her to go back and review individual bars slowly, hands together, before trying the whole phrase again up to tempo.

 

 

Thank you everyone!

See you all next week.