Hello! Wow! Awesome lessons all around this week friends! Noreet: We have Noreet's book and her blue glove at the Conway location! It is tucked away safe on Barn's desk ready for next week. In the meantime I've uploaded all the materials Noreet needs for practice this week to the google drive. You can find these here. We reviewed the C [...]
Hello! We had some pretty good lessons Thursday evening. Noreet: Today we reviewed some scales and learned a new one as well! When practicing scales, please help have Noreet practice with a metronome at home. Google has one available online for free use. When playing the metronome please ensure it is set to 100 Beats Per Minute, the quicker [...]
Hello! What a great Saturday full of lessons! Berke: Today we reviewed our scales. Please continue practicing C Major hands together, paying close attention to the fingerings of the descent of the scale. Start to practice G Major hands together slowly. When practicing the triads at the end of the scale please ensure Berke plays these with his first, third, [...]
Hello! We had a very productive class today! Berke: We reviewed the C Major and D Major scales. For this week please practice with a metronome. This is available online for free via google. For the D Major scale please practice these hands separately at 75BPM (75 beats per minute). We also reviewed the C Major scale and tried playing [...]
Hello Everyone! Some great work was done in lessons this week. Noreet: Today we reviewed our C Major and G Major scales. Continue to warm up with these as you practice at home. Try playing both hands together slowly. We sight read "Cathedral Chimes" and "Sounds from the Gumdrop Factory" today from the Piano Adventures 2B book. A [...]
Hello Everyone! We had some awesome lessons today! Noreet: Today we reviewed Jingle Bells. There has been a noticeable improvement since last week, especially in her sight reading! Today we talked about chords and learned our G Major, F Major, and C Major chords to accompany the melody of Jingle Bells. I've written in the chords for Jingle Bells [...]
Hello Everyone! Good lessons all around today! Noreet: Noreet showed me her progress with Mr. Brahams' famous lullaby. She has memorized the melody so next week we will work on reading from the book and correcting any mistakes. We learned the beginning of Jingle Bells today! I've written in the first note so she should be able to [...]
Hello Everybody! There was some really, really great progress this week friends! Noreet: Noreet has finished learning a Minuet for Mr. Bach's Children! She can continue to play this should she wish, but we have moved onto Mr. Brahms' Famous Lullaby. It is VERY important that she does not hear this played for her just yet, as we [...]
Lesson Work From Thursday, November 14th Hello everyone! Great lessons today! Vida: Vida is to continue practicing her C Major scale. Please practice alternating the left and the right hand playing the scale. She can play two octave C Major scales in her left hand. If she feel confident she can try 2 octaves with her right hand. [...]
Hello Everyone! It was so lovely to meet you yesterday! We had great first lessons all around. Vida: Vida has a good base line knowledge of music from her previous lessons and from school. She is very eager to try replicating the concepts or demonstrations from the lesson. When practicing at home, please help Vida and ensure she starts [...]