Hello Everyone! Great lessons this week! Some really exciting progress and some great first lessons with new students. See your homework and practice recommendations below! Noreet: For warm up with week, please have Noreet play all her scales hands together. Practice a two octave G Major scale at 85BPM on the metronome, two octaves of D Major slowly, and one [...]
Hello Saturday Friends! Great lesson today! Berke: We learned a new scale today! Berke can now practice G Major, one octave, hands separately. He can also practice C Major with two octaves! Please help Berke by reminding him that both of his thumbs should be on C when he finishes the first octave before he starts the second. This [...]
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 [...]