Thank you all for solidifying my love of teaching music every Saturday <3 You all rock! Hakim Bee is sounding awesome, great work with the transitions between sections. Scary Swing is tricky and a great longterm goal! *New* Friday Theme - this piece is well within your level. Watch the D major key signature (F# and C#). You can play [...]
You all make me so happy to be a piano teacher :) Liam I'M SO PROUD OF YOU!!!! *New* Cantina Band - This piece uses 1,2,3 different endings for each section, pay attention. The LH is ALWAYS on beat, which gives a good pulse to bounce the RH off of. Today we played a 12 bar blues, and talked about [...]
Liam Minuet - Lovely dynamics! Make sure the timing of the end of the first section is correct, Half note followed by quarter note. Sonatina - AWESOME! great dynamics, great tempo. Walk the Talk - All your rhythms were perfect today and I loved your crescendos. Witches and Wizards - Great tempo. When the G minor LH triads and the [...]
Hakim Bee - fantastic progress!!! Now add the LH notes in to the RH melody part. They are basically a drum beat. *New* Zum Gali Gali - play this entire piece nice and steady at whatever tempo you choose, just keep it really precise like a computer would play so that I can play the duet part with you. Count [...]
I can't say enough how proud I am of everyone :') Liam Minuet - final answer, no trills. I think it sounds great. Eliminate any rests between sections. You don't need to do the repeats. Sonatina - Great dynamics and flow. Ensure you are doing all your 2 note slurs including the long ones that go for a full bar, [...]
Hakim Bee. - Great job on the intro and chords! Take them slow enough that you can change between them with no hesitation. To start, just get the 1st to 2nd chord smooth, then 2nd to 3rd, then all 3 together etc. This week work on the RH melody by itself. Watch the Bbs from the key signature. The "mini" [...]
Hakim Congrats on polishing Lost Woods! It is super impressive that you can play that hands together, steady and with so many position changes! Proud. *New* Bee. - the lines I drew are every 4 bars to show you the repeating 4 bar bass line. This is in the key of Bb major so all Bs and Es are FLAT. This week [...]
See you THIS Sunday at 12:30 or 1:30, if you're signed up :) Liam Sonatina in G major - Sounding great! 3rd line is what we want to give the most focus this week, getting those little sequences down. As they go higher and higher, we can get louder and louder, and then quiet back down to re-enter the A [...]
It was a fun candy filled day today! Yay! Liam, Sara, Marco and Danny you will be performing this Sunday - see you then! Katarina and Marita - we implore you to come cheer on and be inspired by your peers! There will be guitar, drums and violin students there too! Liam Sonatina in G major - Really nice! I [...]
Sounds like you all had a great, productive time with Emmett! Here are *his* notes for the week: Liam technical requirements are slowing down! Talked about relative minor, C major, Am hands together 2 octaves, G maj 2 octaves. Started to slow down for the end of scales, keeping consistent and EVEN on the way down. Focus on evenness. Dmin [...]