Saturday, Nov 30th

Jack Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Today we spelled words from our new favourite song! Using the example I sent home with you today, and the rhythmic alphabet page, try writing out and playing some new words! --Play the resulting words along with "In Too Deep" Tragically Hip: 50 Mission Cap --Learning the beat (Bass-Snare-Bass-Snare) and playing along with the song [...]

2024-11-30T15:55:28-05:00November 30th, 2024|

Assignments for the week of November 28, 2024

Hello All! Your lesson notes are as follows: Eva What we learned/reviewed in lesson:  Worked through composition/spelling exercises — played CAB, BAG, and our seven letter work, CABBAGE on the piano! Began looking through 10 second song Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes, 4 to 5 days a week What to practice: Finger number patterns (most recent version) 10 Second [...]

2024-11-29T19:34:04-05:00November 29th, 2024|

Homework for November 26-December 3

Henry Recommended minutes to practice: 5-10 per day What to practice:  Itsy Bitsy Spider- first line with counts that I wrote on your music sheet Teaching Little Fingers to Play- review page 5 Stepping and Skipping Theory book- complete page 45 How to practice most effectively: Itsy Bitsy- Follow the counting according to how the note is written in relation to [...]

2024-11-26T23:38:38-05:00November 26th, 2024|

Tuesday, November 26th

Josh Post Malone: I Had Some Help --Good work on this! --To help get that main beat coordinated at performance speed, isolate the "2 + 3" portion of it, making sure to line up the bass drums with the hihats. When isolated, you do a great job of this at high speeds. Can you bring the same coordination to the [...]

2024-11-26T19:16:21-05:00November 26th, 2024|

Chris Away Dates for December & January

Hello Everybody! We are writing to update you that Chris has an amazing opportunity to join and play with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England over a number of weeks in December and January for the second time, and that we are delighted to support him in this effort.  How cool is that?  We'll ask him to provide some video [...]

2024-11-26T13:24:54-05:00November 26th, 2024|

Saturday, November 23rd

Jack Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Spelling "JACK" and "DYLAN" Using these words, play along to Sum 41: In too Deep Tragically Hip: 50 Mission Cap --Learning the beat (Bass-Snare-Bass-Snare) and playing along with the song while I play piano Xylophone --Learning the musical alphabet (ABCDEFG) --Visually identifying C on the keyboard --Spelling "Dad" and "Egg" on the keyboard Koel Warmups [...]

2024-11-23T16:21:28-05:00November 23rd, 2024|

Assignments for week of November 21, 2024

Hello all! Your lesson notes are as follows:   Eva What we learned/reviewed in lesson:  We have started learning how to read sheet music!! Congratulations!! Here are some things that we learned for reading music: Treble clef (all notes above middle C); the center of the swirl lines up with G Bass clef (all notes below middle C); the center [...]

2024-11-22T18:47:23-05:00November 22nd, 2024|

Assignments for the Week of November 20th, 2024

Hakim Technical Exercises - Continuing work on C Major 1 octave scale  Adding in G Major 1 octave scale this week - continuing to practice as solid blocked chords and then stepping through. Using the same fingerings for G Major as C Major (groups of 3 and 5 fingers)  Scale Fingerings - Hakim Nov 20 Bartok - Working through exercises [...]

2024-11-21T18:49:26-05:00November 21st, 2024|

Homework for November 19-26

Henry Recommended minutes to practice: 5-10 per day What to practice: Itsy Bitsy Spider first line with counts that I wrote on your music sheet, theory book colouring on p. 19 and finish numbering lines/spaces on pp. 26-27. How to practice it most effectively: Follow the counting according to how the note is written in relation to the numbers above; e.g. If a [...]

2024-11-20T19:29:48-05:00November 20th, 2024|

Tuesday, November 19th

Myles Drumset Musician p81 ex. 9-12 --Polish these off this week ***PLEASE PRINT***Weezer: My Name is Jonas --Drill the intro and main groove on p.1 --See worksheet for explanation of new bass pattern: master each exercise and then we'll put it in context next week --For next week, we'll warm up with some of these fills (V1 out fill) Xylophone: [...]

2024-11-19T18:39:30-05:00November 19th, 2024|
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