Hi Efe and family! Here is Efe’s homework for the next 2 weeks. Little Drummer Boy https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1cURXZdyFoL_6FZX5V4COTxCljwXKq8wO — check out the video and pictures I have for this piece. They should help you practice it The pictures are of the pages I’ve written out for the chords and the strumming pattern of this song Remember, check out the Pentatonix version [...]
Nova Great work today Nova! Here is this week’s homework: Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 min per day What to practice: Faber book- Lil Liza Jane, theory- maze going from note names to piano keys How to practice: Keep fingers on keys (do not move hand), follow dynamics, staccatos and slurs, play at a steady tempo without stopping at bar [...]
Hi Efe and family! Wishing you a great weekend! Below are the items I’d like Efe to work on this week. Ode to Joy The circled areas on the sheet music only. I’d like these played more fluidly. 68bpm. Blues I haven’t revealed the note names or the frets for this piece. The exercise is to locate the notes on [...]
Nova Great work today Nova! Here is this week’s homework: Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 min per day What to practice: Sailing in the Sun, River flowing scale How to practice: Lift your finger once you’re finished playing a note so that it doesn’t overlap with the next one. Practice playing smooth (legato), and detached. Notice the difference between those [...]
Hi Efe and family! Wishing you guys a great week! Ode to Joy was looking quite good today. I’m very happy with where we are for this piece. Below are the following items of homework for Efe this week: an exercise and a piece aimed at the improvement of the techniques we’ve been working on lately. There’s also a game [...]
Hello Everyone! We saw some good progress this week, thank you! Vida: Today we reviewed Rocky Mountain Train! Play with the metronome this week, you can set it to various tempos (especially slow tempos) to help promote a consistent tempo between all phrases in the song. To help Vida practice you can also try walking to the beat like [...]
Hello Everyone! Great lessons all around this week!! Georgia: Today, without Georgia’s piano method book, we took the opportunity to have a dictation lesson! We started Sally’s Song from the Nightmare Before Christmas. Georgia was able to plunk out the notes for the first three phrases of the song by focusing on the contour of the melody line, [...]
Nova Hi Nova, it was great meeting you today! Here is this week’s homework: Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 min per day What to practice: Faber 1 C scale (page 10), Sailing in the Sun (page 11) How to practice: -Follow fingering that is on the page -Keep in mind note values (quarter=one beat, half= two beats, etc.), count out [...]
Hi Efe and family! Below is the homework for this week. The lower section covers the piece we went over in class today. The higher section describes some important practicing principles that go for all of the work we’ll be doing going forward, as well as a great amount of the music practice you will do later in your life. [...]
Hello Everybody! I hope you all had a great long weekend, and a Happy Thanksgiving to those who got together with loved ones! Georgia: Today Georgia finished learning the Clown! Now that Georgia is comfortable playing all the notes in the song, we discussed the structure of the piece. We learned how music has different sections within songs and [...]