Dvorah Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes a day What to practice: C major scale (RH), Allegro, and Elephant Ride How to practice it most effectively: The C major scale goes from C stepping all the way up to the next C then back down. For RH, the fingering is 1-2-3-1-2-3-4-5 (so you tuck your thumb under finger 3 between E and F). The [...]
Anaya Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes a day What to practice: Biking, Just a Second, and finishing number 1 & 2 on page 55 How to practice it most effectively: For Biking, let's try adding in the tempo (how fast or slow to play) instructions this week now that notes are comfortable! In Just a Second, we talked about how moving in seconds, or steps, [...]
Nathalia Recommended minutes to practice: 15 minutes a day What to practice: F major triads (one hand at a time, solid and broken), Rockin' Robin. How to practice it most effectively: For the F major triads, you are always using notes F-A-C in different orders. RH uses finger 1-2-5 on first inversion, and LH uses finger 5-2-1 on second inversion. For solid triads, we play all [...]
Dvorah Recommended minutes to practice: 10 minutes a day What to practice: Come See the Parade, Hey, Hey, Look at Me How to practice it most effectively: For Come See the Parade, we have a new LH note! G is the top space of the bass clef, right under A. RH is playing intervals of a 5th (C and G) together at the same [...]
Anaya Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes a day What to practice: A Happy Song, See-Saws, and Biking How to practice it most effectively: A Happy Song will be a review piece this week - just work on smoothly playing it from start to finish (no break between the lines). See-Saws introduces playing legato - this means we connect between the notes (which you've already [...]
Sahil Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: Minor triads warmup, Hey Mr. Half Note Dot, Alouette, Beyblade Burst Turbo How to practice it most effectively: For the minor triads warmup, play a triad starting from every white key, but this week let's make them all minor! When changing a chord from major to minor it's only the middle note that moves [...]
Hello! Sorry this post is coming to you a day late - I had an assignment to finish last night. In other news, I am happy to announce I am a contestant on CBC Music's Searchlight: The first round is voting-based, so if you wanted to hear my original music and maybe shoot me a vote it would be much [...]
Anaya Recommended minutes to practice: 10 minutes a day What to practice: Row, Row, Row Your Boat, A Happy Song How to practice it most effectively: For Row, Row, we circled all our repeating notes: for both hands there are repeated Es in the middle of the lines. A Happy Song is the new one this week: as always, watch the directions and which hand plays [...]
Happy Mother's Day! Sahil Recommended minutes to practice: 15 minutes a day What to practice: C position skips warmup, major triads from all white keys, Hey, Mr. Half Note Dot, Alouette, and the Beyblade songs. How to practice it most effectively: For the C position skips warmup, take one hand at a time and use fingers 1-3-5 to play skips C-E-G-E-C. These are the fingers we [...]
Dvorah Recommended minutes to practice: 10 minutes a day What to practice: Petit Minuet, Rodeo How to practice it most effectively: In Petit Minuet we have a new time signature, 3/4, as well as a new RH position (finger 1 on D). When we are in a new position like this, it helps to say/sing the letters out loud while you play. In 3/4 [...]