Bayli Cohen Hello, welcome back! I'm so glad you had a restful March break and that you enjoyed your trip to China! This week we worked on your new school band piece "The Best of Queen". We mainly focused on the second movement "Another One Bites the Dust" (bars 28-52). During your practice this week, try to focus on this [...]
Bayli Cohen Hello, nice to see you again this week! Great work on being able to reach the low C! That is a tough one to reach on the flute but you did it. For next week please have the 2 octave C Major scale prepared. Continue to work on the pieces "A la Claire Fontaine" and "Skip to my [...]
Bayli Cohen Hello, Good work completing the homework this week. You played the one octave G Major scale well and played the correct notes, but remember to hold the full duration of a note even when playing a scale. So in your case you were playing quarter notes so try to hold the full beat of the quarter note for [...]
Bayli Cohen Hello, Good work on completing the theory worksheet that was assigned last lesson. Next week please have the G Major one octave scale that you wrote out on your worksheet prepared to play for me on Tuesday. Remember, before practicing/playing, it is very important to warm-up on your instrument. A good start to any warm up would be [...]
Bayli Cohen Good work on Tuesday! Your music reading skills are coming along quite well. Keep up the great work! During the lesson we worked on a rhythm practice worksheet together and I sent one home with you for independent practice. Please practice clapping out those rhythms while counting out loud and write out the G Major scale (one octave [...]
Bayli Cohen Good job this week! For next lesson please complete the music theory worksheet that we were working on together in our lesson. Being able to understand music theory will help your performance skills and make reading music and rhythm a lot easier. When you're reading/practicing your music and you get stuck on a bar, remember to try and [...]
Bayli Cohen It was nice to meet you on Tuesday and discuss some of your goals that you would like to achieve on the flute and in your music class. You're currently making a good tone on the instrument and we will work on making it clearer throughout our lessons. As for learning to read music, we will continue to [...]