Thank you for all your hard work this summer! Good luck to everyone in the fall :)   Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: Mozart's Five Names, Paper Airplane, vocal warmups, start to listen to Tomorrow How to practice it most effectively: For piano practice, please continue practicing Mozart's Five Names: notice when the melody is stepping vs. [...]

Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: warmups, Reflection, C's Rock, Mozart's Five Names How to practice it most effectively: For your warmups this week, see if you can go through all 5 vowels for the 5-note major warmups. For the skips sliding down warmup, stick to just "ah". Another good guideline is for the higher 5-note warmups, use [...]

Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: Mexican Jumping Beans + L'il Liza Jane, C's Rock, 2 vocal warmups, Reflection How to practice it most effectively: For fun this week, you can try singing the lyrics while you play the 2 pieces Mexican Jumping Beans and L'il Liza Jane. The new piano piece is C's Rock, which uses treble, [...]

Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: Lonely Pine, Li'l Liza Jane, vocal warmups, Reflection with lyric video How to practice it most effectively: For Lonely Pine, RH is only doing skips within FACE in the space! Just be careful that RH's position changes from C position in the first line to F position in the second line. LH [...]

Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: 5-note major warmup (going up), 3rds sliding warmup (going down), Loyal Brave and True (karaoke), Half-time Show How to practice it most effectively: This week for your 5-note major vocal warmup, try using just the vowel "ah" (no consonants) and go up and back down. Please keep your vowel and throat nice and [...]

Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15 minutes a day What to practice: Half-Time Show, major 5-note warmup (C to A), Loyal Brave and True (karaoke) How to practice it most effectively: For Half-Time Show, remember your FACE in the space saying - RH is only ever playing in these spaces doing repeated notes or skips. In bars 9-12 the hands are playing the exact same [...]

Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: 5-note major warmup (from C to A position), Happy, Skipping in Space, Half-Time Show How to practice it most effectively: For the warmup, try going up and back down this week on either "ma-ma-ma" or "da-da-da". The trickiest position is E position: you'll need an F# and G#. Especially as you get [...]

Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15 minutes a day What to practice: 5-note vocal warmup (plus piano), Happy, Young Hunter How to practice it most effectively: For this new vocal warmup, start in C position and play 1-2-3-4-5; move up through D, E, etc. until you reach A position. You'll notice that for D, E, F, and A positions you'll need to add [...]

Dvorah Recommended minutes to practice: 10 minutes a day What to practice: C major scale (left hand), Grandmother How to practice it most effectively: For the C major scale, please play it with LH from bass C to middle C. The fingering is 5-4-3-2-1-3-2-1, with finger 3 tucking over the thumb between G and A. See if you can play it as connected as possible. For Grandmother, [...]