Lucas How many minutes to practice: 15-30 What to practice: This week Lucas I want you to work on playing Another One Bites the Dust with the music. How to practice effectively: What I would do this week Lucas is focus on building up the beat every time you practice instead of just trying to do it all at once. First [...]
Hi there, Another week...good work everyone! Looking forward to seeing some of you in person in a couple weeks. take care, Ted Susan We worked on: Thirds in different ways (all up, all down, alternating), articulation and rhythms on Jitterbug (scooping the notes), Bach by ear What to practice: Khebar, Jitterbug Waltz, Bach Cello Suite in G Aubrey [...]
Isaac Recommended minutes to practice: 30 minutes a day What to practice: Keep practicing the triads and the inversions. You definitely caught onto the idea quickly which is great. Next week we'll focus more on Thunder Rolls. How to practice it most effectively: Keep naming the triads, don't feel rushed, triads take a lifetime to work on. If you can, use a metronome [...]
Kaylee Recommended minutes to practice: 5 minutes a day What to practice: You did a great job tuning your guitar this week! Keep trying to get a note out of the guitar and work on Smoke On The Water. Ask your parents for help trying to get a note out. How to practice it most effectively: I would just try to keep [...]
D major left arm up for lower strings please if you are struggling with remembering the extensions, start by practicing the descending pattern and then immediately ascend without releasing the 2nd finger extension move the thumb before or with the fingers in order to prepare keep working 2 notes per bow don't stop the bow in order to change notes [...]
Hi everyone, With the transition to ZOOM video lessons, I am no longer able to write down notes and musical material in the students’ books/binders. Instead, I have created PDF documents for each of you and dropped them into a Google Drive folder. The link to your documents is listed in the What to practice heading under your name below. [...]
Jaron - great job with your 3-2-1-0 intonation in your scales! - Recommended practice time: 15 min/day, 5 days/week - Practice: G, D, and A Major scales (doing our usual posture and bow hold check each time before playing), Allegretto (practice playing through whole piece without stopping or slowing down, and making accents more obvious), and Andantino (first two lines, [...]
Jonathan Recommended amount of practice time: 30 mins a day What to practice: This week Jonathan I want you to practice the Lesson 12 rhythm, Peters Etude 1, and the Lesson 14 beats. How to practice effectively: Good job with the Lesson 12 rhythm, just iron it out a little better and keep counting! Same goes for the Peters Etude. The Lesson [...]
Sebastian How many minutes to practice: 15-30 What to practice: This week Sebastian I want you to work on the first 4 lines of the Stick Control Exercise as well as all of Lesson 1. How to practice effectively: Really great work today! For the stick control exercise, remember to play it all with a nice full stroke that starts and ends [...]
Hello everyone! Keep up the good effort! If you were not able to practice as much as you wanted to, let that go and focus on what you can do this week. Here's a little riddle for you: "What has keys but can't listen to the beauty it unlocks? A piano!" Student 1: Caedan Thanks for getting prepared and buying [...]