Hope everyone's March break was awesome! Jadon Great sightreading today on The Swing. Please now read through the remaining phrases and practice it for next week. Focus on playing the RH louder than the LH. ***Download here*** Julian *New* The Queen's Royal Entrance. This piece uses D and C major triads. At the very end, an F major and E minor triad are also [...]
Happy March Break everyone! Enjoy it <3 Jadon The Swing - **DOWNLOAD BY CLICKING TITLE** This is your March Break reading practice. It's a beautiful piece, enjoy. Avatar - greattttt progress! Begin working on the beginning, in addition to the spot you're already tackling. The most important spots to practice are the beats before and after changing keys/positions. Work at a slow [...]
Enjoy the snow everyone! And stay safe out there <3 I appreciate everyone's hard work. Jadon Lead sheets - Eerie Canal and Happy Birthday. Explore using the voicings of the chords where your LH moves as minimal as possible, while playing the melody with the RH. Experiment with different accompaniment rhythms, groups of notes. Avatar - Begin from where we circled. Work out how [...]
Hi everyone! Hope you have an amazing Valentine's Day next week! <3 Liam March. This piece includes a dotted quarter note. It is worth 1 and a half beats. Count 1 2, the play the next note on the "and of 2". The pop chords above and the Roman numerals I wrote below tell you when to change LH chords. [...]
Hi everyone! Happy February :) Liam *New Piece* Major-Minor Bop. Ensure you play very staccato, but not with a tense arm. The RH will be finger staccato which feels like scratching a spot of the keys, or your fingers runnin gon a treadmill. The LH will be doing wrist staccato which involves strong finger joints, and a fluid wrist like when [...]
Marco, Daniel, Julian: Marco Keep working on your C and also G major one octave HS scales :) RH fingering is 12312345 and LH is 54321 321 for both. G major is all white keys except for F#. Focus on having as little movement in your arm as you tuck your thumb under. Pretend that tucking your thumb under is [...]
Hi everyone! Stay safe in the slush tomorrow :) In person friends, I have a small piano gift for you next week for our final lesson of 2022! Fiona Flute of the Andes - We learnt about the perfect 4th interval in our last piece, and this song uses almost exclusively 4ths. This piece is also entirely Cs and Gs, [...]
Hello everyone! Your Christmas pieces are all sounding AWESOME! Proud of everyone <3 Fiona Jingle Bells. Sounding great! Make the "Jingle Bells" part more bouncy and light so it sounds like actual bells. Mixed Up Song. Good work reading this one. Be sure to keep your wrists in line with your forearms and don't let them sag down off the edge of [...]
Happy 1st of December everyone! Hope everyone who participates in advent calendars had an exciting morning! I did, as I have a Nespresso one this year :) Fiona Your new piece is Mixed Up Rag and you're working on measures 1-8. This piece introduced the interval of a 4th. A 4th is where, including the first note, there are 4 note [...]
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 [...]