Hello Everyone! Great work this week all around! Noreet: Noreet informed me that she will be away on vacation for a few weeks in April and May, thats so exciting! Please make sure to cancel any lessons scheduled during that time to ensure you are not billed for these lessons. You should be able to do this yourself through [...]
Hello! I hope you all had a good March Break! Berke: For this week, please have Berke warm up with Mozart's minuet in F so that he can continue to practice playing hands together. Remind him that there is an octave jump in the left hand in measure 3. Please ask Berke to play the full 8 bars as [...]
Hello Everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your March Break! Noreet: Today we sight-read Mr. Haydn's Theme and reviewed the meaning of transposition and modulation; when the song starts in one key and ends in a different one. Noreet can continue to practice the right and left hands of Mr. Haydn's theme separately until she feels confident to [...]
Hello Everybody! Just to confirm, we do not have lessons this week, March 13th. Please enjoy your March break! Noreet: Sorry we missed you this week! Please continue to read and practice Mr. Hayden's theme and we will see you after the March break. Vida: I have uploaded both a recording of Green Frog Hop and the sheet [...]
Hello! We had a really fun lesson this week! Berke: We learned a new scale today! Berke can move on from G and D Major and focus on playing A Major. Start by practicing this scale hands separately until Berke is confident with the 3 sharps and fingering for A Major, then practice hands together. We did some more sight [...]
Hello Everyone! Wow some awesome progress this week!! Noreet: Today we reviewed the D Major and A Major scales hands together. Noreet can continue to warm up with these, however please pay extra close attention to the descent of these two scales and review the fingerings slowly to ensure Noreet's fingers don't get tangled. Practice the descending pattern, [...]
Happy Saturday Everyone! Berke: Please continue to warm up with both the G Major and D Major scale, playing them both hands together. Today we did some sight reading! I've uploaded a few more sight reading sheets to the google drive for Berke to warm up with. These exercises test how well Berke can read the notes on the [...]
Hello Everyone! Such fun classes today! Vida: Great work this week! Continue to warm up with the F Major scale, hands together. Continue to work on Rhino in the Mud. Don't forget the D in the right hand of measure 8, and review measure 9-11 (this phrase starts on a G!) You can feel free to record this song [...]
Hello! I hope you all had a fun snow day! Noreet: When warming up this week Noreet can continue to play her G Major scale hands together, pay close attention to the fingerings in as the scale descends. D Major can be played 2 octaves hands together. Practice the A Major scale hands together slowly. We are still working on [...]
Hello! We saw some really great progress this week! Berke: We reviewed and warmed up with our scales. Practice G Major hands together, focus on the fingering particularly in the descent of the scale. We learned D Major, this scale has 2 sharps F# and C#, this can be practiced slowly hands separately this week. We played through Mozart's [...]