Jonathan Daily amount of minutes to practice: 30 What to practice: This week Jonathan I want you to work on the reading from Lesson 7 and Lesson 8, as well as the beats from Lesson 13. How to practice effectively: Good job with the rhythm stuff we worked on this week. For the reading in Lesson 7 and 8, focus on counting [...]
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 - 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, and watching for intonation on 3-2-1-0 coming down the scale), and Allegretto (watch out for leaps in phrases, such as 3-1-0, 1-3-2, 0-3-, etc.). Olivia - Reminder: send me audio of [...]
Lucas How many minutes to practice: 15-30 What to practice: This week Lucas I want you to focus on working through the rest of Seven Nation Army with the music. UPDATED TRANSCRIPTION of Seven Nation Army and a link to the song. How to practice effectively HERE IS A VIDEO OF ME PLAYING THE PART. Good work sticking through the [...]
Hello Everybody! This is just a quick note to let you know that weeks 4 & 5 are now posted to the online class portal for Fiddle. Remember, you can watch these any time, not just when you miss a class or are home sick - they make a great activity during the week! Apologies for the delay, but I [...]
Hi Matthew! Please see the notes below from this weeks lesson. Happy practicing and great work! Sharps - Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle Bow exercises Finger taps keep working on your finger taps. try to get 5 taps in a row of each pattern at a faster speed Open strings - slurred string crossings C string - frog [...]
Eamon Recommended minutes to practice: 25 minutes a day What to practice: Keep working on sight reading, it's definitely getting better. Secondly, memorize the chords for Don't Stop Me Now, play along to the track without the piece of paper. Keep working on the melody and we learned part of the solo, you can probably figure out the rest on your own, [...]
Katarina Recommended minutes to practice: 5 minutes a day What to practice: Keep working on You Are My Sunshine, we're so close to getting the whole thing! Also we started the kookaburra song, the ending for that is tricky so we'll work on that part. If you could try and play your G chord that would be amazing, I know it's [...]
Jonathan Daily amount of minutes to practice: 30 What to practice: This week Jonathan I want you to finish the beats on this page and work through this rhythm page to the end of the 7th line. How to practice effectively: Good work with the beats! All you need now is to finish up the 4th, 5th, and 6th. Keep doing what [...]
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. [...]