Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Practice playing page 3 of Tom Sawyer starting two bars before where it says “Chorus.” How to practice it most effectively: Focus on the transitions in this section. Practice it slowly enough that you can connect each bar to [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Caroline Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes per day What to practice: Practice playing the two main beats from “When September Ends” by Green Day. How to practice it most effectively: Practice these beats slowly at first to make sure that you’ve got all the notes in the right spots. In [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Elliot Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: Practice playing all the way through Black Dog using the sheet music available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10YGpSqgr9Z2SExyhXz7k1evG3C0t2VEc?usp=share_link How to practice it most effectively: You’ve done really great work with this song! The last step is to try to put it all [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Caroline Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes per day What to practice: Practice playing “Seven Nation Army” all the way through with the recording of the song. How to practice it most effectively: Take time to remember the progression of the song. After the first Chorus, it repeats from the beginning. [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Caroline Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes per day What to practice: Practice the beat from “7 Years” as well as the one from “Seven Nation Army” How to practice it most effectively: Take it slow with the beat from “7 Years.” This beat is considerably more difficult than anything else [...]

Hi everyone, Just a reminder that I will be away next Thursday, Oct 27. I have arranged a substitute teacher and I will fill them in on what each of you is working on. Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Review the beginning of Tom Sawyer (up [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Review the notes I gave you from our lesson on xylophone and keep working on Tom Sawyer. How to practice it most effectively: Remember the things we talked about with half steps and whole steps moving up the keyboard. [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Practice the ending of Tom Sawyer from where it says “Verse” on page 4 to the end of page 5. How to practice it most effectively: Focus this week on the 7/8 section toward the end of page 4. [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Practice the ending of Tom Sawyer from where it says “Verse” on page 4 to the end of page 5. How to practice it most effectively: As always, focus on the fills and transition points in the song. Don’t [...]

Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Elliot Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: Practice #7-12 on the “Lessons 6” page and begin working on the beginning of “Black Dog” by Led Zeppelin. How to practice it most effectively: With the half-measure patterns in Lesson 6, focus on keeping a steady pulse on [...]