Hello everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your Halloween. Your lesson notes are as follows: Eva What we learned/reviewed in lesson: Dynamics review (piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte) Counting exercises: we were able to figure out the math to have 4 beats in each measure Played through Echo Song and Old Macdonald Introducing the pedals! They can really change [...]
Hello everyone! Great lessons this week. Your lesson notes are as follows: Eva What we learned/reviewed in lesson: Reviewing hands and finger numbers, played through Walking Song and the I Like Song! Great composting! It was so enjoyable to listen to “The Song That Never Ends” Reviewed quarter notes (one beat), half notes (two beats), and whole notes (four beats) [...]
Hello all! Here are your notes for this week: Chris What we learned/reviewed in lesson: Stacked notes: music can be read horizontally (one not followed by another) but it can also be read vertically (notes stacked on top of each other and played at the same time. When two or more notes are stacked on top of each other, this [...]
Hello Everyone! Your notes are as follows: Chris What we learned/reviewed in lesson: Finger patterns Relating the posture and hand positioning to our playing Playing with our bigger muscle groups (reminding ourselves: we walk with our legs, not our toes. Similarly, we play piano with our arms, not our fingers) To remind yourself of what your hand position should feel [...]
Hello! Here are the lesson notes for this week: Chris What we learned/reviewed in lesson: Sitting at the piano sitting closer to the edge of the seat so we can be on top of our sit bone/tail bone, spine is aligned but not hunched forward or straining back. Knuckles should reach the back board of the piano, when hands [...]
Hello everyone! Here are your notes for this week: Eva What we learned/reviewed in lesson: Reviewing finger numbers on our Left and Right hand Learned our first note name on the piano! D in the dog house (between the 2 black keys on the keyboard) Quarter notes and Half notes; quarter notes can count for 1 beat, half notes count [...]
Hello everyone! Great seeing you all this week. Here are notes for your lessons: Eva What we learned/reviewed in lesson: Reviewing finger numbers on both left hand and right hand Rhythm playback Black keys — counted 7 groups of two and 7 groups of 3! Hand position, soft “c” shape Reviewed pages 10-13 (Faber Primer), play through pages 15 and [...]
Hello everyone! It was great to meet you all. Here are notes from your lessons: Eva What we learned: tracing out the hands, recognizing left and right with corresponding numbering (LH:54321 RH:12345) practicing patterns (ex: 123, 321, 131. 135, 432, etc) moving to the keyboard, noticing patterns across the piano (groups of two and three going up and down) [...]