Hello Everybody! Great lesson today! Berke: For practice this week please continue to work on Telemann's Andante in G minor. Berke is to review the right and left hand of the A section before attempting to play them hands together. Count out loud to help rhythmic accuracy and pay close attention to the designated fingerings of the left hand [...]
Hello Everyone! I hope you all stayed warm during the snow storm! I was happy to see some of you online via FarPlay this week. If anyone has any questions or needs help navigating the software, please let me know! Georgia: I hope you had a great snow day! Please continue to practice "Waltz Time" and we will review [...]
Hello Everybody! Happy New Year and welcome back! Berke: Today we started Andante in G minor. When Berke is practicing this song at home he should pay close attention to the labelled fingerings as these techniques will help Berke play more smoothly and efficiently. For this week Berke can review the first phrase hands separate. The goal this week is [...]
Hello Everybody! Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday! Georgia: Today we reviewed "Waltz Time". To help Georgia feel the flow of the song, please remind her when practicing that often in the song the last beat of one phrase ends up being the first beat of the next phrase. So these two phrases [...]
Hello Everybody! I hope you're all staying warm and well this winter season! Georgia: This week for warm up Georgia can start playing her C Major scale hands together slowly. Review the fingering and pattern hands separately before trying hands together. When playing Purple Cow this week, Georgia should count out loud (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +) [...]
Hello Everyone! Great work all around this week! Georgia: This week we reviewed time signatures, note values, and rhythms. Please have Georgia fill out page 21 in her Alfred’s Method book for homework. We will correct this next week. We also discussed how the staff is continuous from the bottom line of the bass clef to the top space of [...]
Hello Everyone! We saw some good progress this week, thank you! Vida: Today we reviewed Rocky Mountain Train! Play with the metronome this week, you can set it to various tempos (especially slow tempos) to help promote a consistent tempo between all phrases in the song. To help Vida practice you can also try walking to the beat like [...]
Hello Everyone! Great lessons all around this week!! Georgia: Today, without Georgia’s piano method book, we took the opportunity to have a dictation lesson! We started Sally’s Song from the Nightmare Before Christmas. Georgia was able to plunk out the notes for the first three phrases of the song by focusing on the contour of the melody line, [...]
Hello Everybody! I hope you all had a great long weekend, and a Happy Thanksgiving to those who got together with loved ones! Georgia: Today Georgia finished learning the Clown! Now that Georgia is comfortable playing all the notes in the song, we discussed the structure of the piece. We learned how music has different sections within songs and [...]
Hello Everyone! Happy October! Thank you for the great first month of the school year! Georgia: This week we discussed how Georgia should approach practicing at home. While she is encouraged to play the whole song from start to finish when she begins her practice for the day, she should be keeping an eye out for any spots that need extra attention. [...]