Nice job tonight, folks! Homework suggestions are below: Ken -Print out Sunflower for next week please! -"C's Rock" -- practice this one, make sure to pay attention to the rhythm Steve -"Forest Drums" -- one more week on this, keep up the good work-"No Moon Tonight" -- aiming for the "smoothly moving" feeling-"Grumpy Old Troll" -- good start on this; [...]
Hey everyone! Please see below for your suggested homework for the week: Klara -Practice "Let's Play Ball" from Piano Adventures Primer -- remember your nicely curved fingers Emet -The Major and Minor: watch out for the rhythm in the bar we focused on (line 2, pg 2). Remember to practice going back to the beginning to play the DC al [...]
Hey everyone! Nice job this week! In the future I will have my Tuesday and Wednesday students divided up into 2 separate posts, but since I'm not too sure who has signed up for which day at this point, since there were some scheduling changes, I'm just going to send this out to both groups. There is now an option [...]
Hello everyone! Welcome to Fall 2020! It’s so great to be working with all of you until Ms Kasia is able to return! I will do my best to keep your instruction streamlined with what you were working on before with Ms Kasia. Below I will include some homework suggestions for each of you. Since it’s only the first [...]
Hello everyone! Welcome to Fall 2020! It's so great to be working with all of you; for those of you who are new to me, I am so pleased to meet you, and for those of you from the summer, I'm excited to continue our journey! Below I will include some homework suggestions for each of you. Since it's only [...]
Nice job this week, everyone! Here are the homework suggestions: Dawn -start working on Part of Your World Oliver -excited to start those new books with you next week! Isaac Etude - drill the last line - working on connecting the bars by playing into the 1st beat of the next barMinuet in F - remember it's a G in [...]
Excellent job to everyone this week! See below for your homework suggestions: Suzanne Hope you have an excellent rest of your summer! Here are a few more Hanon pages you can work on: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HRtKlGd0pscvhNLUPacHq1LLMk8eGwfS/view?usp=sharing Dawn Keep working on your song, keeping in mind the adaptations we made at the intro. Combination "that's mine" and scale exerciseContinue with breathing exercises Oliver [...]
Hi everyone! Nice job this week. Please see below for your homework suggestions: Suzanne Hanon exercise - continue trying the rhythm variations, non legato touchPractice Roman TrumpetsTry out pg 48 exercisesContinue to work on interval recognition! Dawn Practice Something's Got a Hold on MeBreathing exercises Oliver Rain RainTrumpet SongKeep working on your C major scale Isaac Minuet in A - [...]
Hello all, please see below for your practice suggestions this week: Suzanne -Russian Folk Song from lesson book -- work on playing with dynamics, and maybe trying the transposing activity?-Hanon Exercise 1 - Here is the link, I also scanned the "how to use this book" page from the book to give you a bit more info about the exercises: [...]
Hi everyone! Please see below for homework suggestions. Suzanne -practice naming and playing bass clef notes-practice Yankee Doodle from the lesson book Dawn -warm up from pg 64 of green book: try to keep registration smooth, sing over the break-"That's mine" exercise - wide open mouth helps!-Million Reasons: drill the tricky tuning sections; maintain breath support on "walk away" (maybe [...]