Maria Fabulous work this week, Maria, you are a quick learner and intelligent student. Overall reminder for you is to keep your wrists steady and elevated, instead of dropping them too low and then getting a bouncy tendency. Dropping them too low takes strength and agility away from your fingers. We noticed the affect especially in Lavender's Blue, remember the [...]
Maria Maria, great job this week. Please memorize London Bridge for us to play as our warm up piece for next week. In Alouette, watch out for dynamics. That means watch out for where you should be playing loud (F) or soft (p). Just 5 minutes on that piece on most days will be all you need! Watch out for [...]
Maria Maria, great job this week, you are remembering to keep your fingers up more often, even when the little ones get tired, keep it up! In LAVENDER'S BLUE, please decrescendo gradually throughout the last line and don't forget that staccato in the LH (I circled it for you) :) In LONDON BRIDGE, there are at least two TIES, meaning [...]
Maria Dearest Maria it was a pleasure meeting you! Please make sure you don't practice with pancake fingers at home! We want your fingers to get good exercise so they get stronger and faster :) In GET AWAY you're great at doing the staccato when you're thinking about it! I've noticed you get your fingers right off the piano, that's [...]
Madison Madison, great job this week in a short lesson! Work on your scales for next week as mentioned in your homework paper. Play them loud and strong! ODE TO JOY Play through the third line for 5-10 minutes before playing the whole piece. In fact play that line three times as much as the rest of the piece. :) [...]
Hello my lovely students! Melody I'm so pleased with your work on July the Fourth and Play a Fourth and am happy to say we can move on! I'm proud of your progress with learning, understanding and reading note names. Please do review pgs 27-32 in your lesson book as I suggested! Especially think about FACE (RH Spaces) and Every [...]
Yes, the good weather is here!! And my lovely students did some great work this week. :) Madison D Major Scale, please practice two Octaves, remember C# and F#, look for the C on the piano and the black note next to it is C#. GET AWAY: We made a deal that if you can achieve your staccato in Get [...]
Dear parents and students, It would seem that summer is almost upon us! Very grateful for that! Madison GET AWAY!: Madison, I noticed your staccato has greatly improved! Bravo! There is wiggle room for improvement so keep up your 2-5min a day of detached vs. staccato scales, making sure you really exaggerate the differences! Bar 4 LH staccato still needs [...]
Dear students and parents, I hope everyone got to have some fun in the sun today! Note that I will always send home the week's work and notes on a piece of paper with the student, so they can keep it handy by the piano for reference, and of course parents are welcome and encouraged to read it as well. [...]
Dear students and parents, It was a real pleasure to meet three students for the first time today, each of whom are so lovely in their own unique way, and with whom I look forward to working again next week! This week's homework notes: Madison Lovely playing Madison, don't be afraid of staccato, the piano's keys are burning coals, get [...]