Hello Everyone!
Vida:
Continue to practice Under the Sea, working towards playing the first two pages hands together! Use the metronome if this helps Vida. Start at 60BPM then slowly increase the tempo. The ideal tempo for Under the Sea is 120BPM. Review any tricky or challenging spots hands separately when necessary. Review Green Frog Hop, Home on the Range, and Mr. McGill’s Boop Sha Bop specifically to highlight the difference in staccato phrases and legato phrases. Mr. McGill’s Boop Sha Bop asks Vida to do both. Continue to read Lochness Monster hands separately. We will review this in class next week. Finally, Vida can review the F# Major, D# minor, B, and C# chords as these will be used in Ed Sheeran’s “I don’t care”. When Vida feels comfortable building and playing these chords, add in the rhythm pattern from the song. We can add some of the melody next week.
Berke:
Today we read a new song! I’ve uploaded the sheet music for “Burlesque in G Major” to the google drive. Review this hands separately, when you feel confident playing both the right and left hands separately, you can try playing this hands together. Do the same for the minor section of Mozart’s Minuet in F Major. Focus specifically on the minor section. Only when you can confidently play the minor section hands separately should you go back and add the major section we have already learned. At that point, play the song from the beginning hands together and continue playing into the minor section with the right hand only so that you can hear how the song changes. Practice the Major section and minor section hands together separately. We can try to play the whole thing together in class next week. For Moonlight sonata, focus on building the chords in bars 7, 8, and 9 while holding down the upper note. Play these chords very slowly to build and practice this technique in your fingers. You can find Burlesque in G Major here.
Great work today! I look forward to hearing how both of you progress in June!
Happy Practicing!