Hello everyone :) Thanks for your time spent practicing! Fiona You're working on Panda Party. The most important part of this piece is hearing the difference between the staccato and the legato. Be very picky with this! On the first note that is legato you can dip your wrist down into it, and then float your wrist up on the [...]
Happy November friends! Hope everyone's Halloween was awesome <3 Jadon You’re working on the first little bit of Amazing Grace in your book. Practice hands separate first to “get” the LH accompaniment pattern. The triplets in the melody should be nice and even. There are also lots of 6ths in the RH to get used to. You’re also working on [...]
Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween :) Fiona Get well soon ! I look forward to seeing you next week. Marita You're working on The Spring Session based on Vivaldi's "Spring" from The Four Seasons. Practice the LH seperate thinking or saying aloud each chord. Then you won't have to use brain power for the position changes and can focus [...]
Happy Halloween weekend everyone! <3 Grace Continue to work on Playful Snakelets and Melancholy Reflections. Beat to beat practice on on snakelets, hearing the imitation between hands. Melancholy Reflections will benefit from hands separate practice until fluent. Have fun warming up with the Dozen a Day exercises you screenshotted. Think about HOW your wrists and fingers are moving as you [...]
Hello lovely people! Hope you have a lovely and safe Halloween :) Fiona You're working on all of The Juggler this week. Remember all the crossing over notes are staccato and bouncy. Really good job! Next week we're going to tackle the Kite song on the next few pages, you can take a few peeks at it. How does playing 2nds [...]
Hello everyone! Thanks for your flexibility this week <3 Next week we will be back in person and I'll be running 100%! Jadon Sorry for the mixup, I'll see you sometime soon! You rock. Grace Missed you this week. Looking forward to reuniting - happy practicing! Marco You're working on all of Let's Waltz. Watch your Bbs and keep the staccato [...]
Hello everyone :) Fiona You're working on the first 8 bars of The Juggler. Great job playing this in class today. Focus on the difference between the light, plucky staccato sections and the smoothness of the legato sections. You're also working to fill out the note reading Halloween worksheet. They're all in the same range your pieces are right now. Recommended [...]
Hope everyone's Thanksgiving weekends were lovely and restful :) Jadon Amazing work putting My Heart Will Go On together. Work on connecting the top of page 2 to the chorus now. You can also start thinking about playing the RH louder than the LH so the melody really shines through. Recommended practice: 25-30 minutes Grace On Playful Snakelets, practice the overlapping passages "beat [...]
Hello everyone! I hope your Thanksgiving weekends were lovely if you celebrated :) and if you didn't, I hope your 3 day weekend was restful! Fiona You're working on Paper Airplane. I was very impressed by how clean you can play 5 finger scales! You're playing with your fingerTIPS and it's awesome! Now just remember to always keep your wrist supported [...]
Jadon You're working on My Heart Will Go On, with emphasis on the chorus and tricky spots we went over in class. Play the upper voice only in the octaves for the melody. You're also working on Pumpkin Boogie as a quick study. The most important part is that you "get" that off beat rhythm. 1 2 3 4. 1 [...]