Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: warmups, Reflection, C's Rock, Mozart's Five Names How to practice it most effectively: For your warmups this week, see if you can go through all 5 vowels for the 5-note major warmups. For the skips sliding down warmup, stick to just "ah". Another good guideline is for the higher 5-note warmups, use [...]
Jonah How many minutes to practice: 30 mins a day What to practice: This week Jonah I want you to practice the doubles exercise Gallop and be able to play through the whole thing counting out loud. In addition I also want you to get through the rest of this transcription of Rock With You by Michael Jackson. How to practice effectively: For [...]
Hopefully everyone is staying cool from the heat and humidity this week! Just a reminder that next week will be your last week of summer lessons, we will have a break the week after, and then our school year will start! Grace - congratulations on finishing Minuet 2! We ran out of time before we could go into your questions [...]
Hello Everyone! We have some changes in Guitar for this coming school year to inform you of. Trevor has relocated to BC and will be teaching digitally exclusively. Daniel will be moving to Saturdays only to accommodate changes in his schedule. We will be welcoming Matt Morgan to the team, who will be teaching at Lawrence Park on Tuesdays and [...]
Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: Mexican Jumping Beans + L'il Liza Jane, C's Rock, 2 vocal warmups, Reflection How to practice it most effectively: For fun this week, you can try singing the lyrics while you play the 2 pieces Mexican Jumping Beans and L'il Liza Jane. The new piano piece is C's Rock, which uses treble, [...]
Jonah How many minutes to practice: 30 mins a day What to practice: This week Jonah I want you to practice the doubles exercise Gallop and look at this transcription of Rock With You by Michael Jackson. How to practice effectively: For Gallop work on keeping things slow and your doubles consistent. For Rock With You, work on keeping the notes on the [...]
I hope everyone is staying cool in this heat! Grace - I hope your back feels better soon! - Recommended practice time: 20 min/day, 5 days/week - Practice: bow hold lifts and hand stretches, 2 octave Major scales (G, A, C, and B-flat Major - with focus on new scale B-flat Major, make sure to start with low second finger [...]
Aidan Here's the sheet music for Spanish Joint. Learn as much or as little as you'd like. Try playing along to as much of the recording as you can. I haven't notated every part of the song because a lot of it is heavily improvised (e.g., at the end of choruses). We can learn how to improvise in these sections [...]
Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: Lonely Pine, Li'l Liza Jane, vocal warmups, Reflection with lyric video How to practice it most effectively: For Lonely Pine, RH is only doing skips within FACE in the space! Just be careful that RH's position changes from C position in the first line to F position in the second line. LH [...]
Jonah How many minutes to practice: 30 mins a day What to practice: Great job on Starlight Jonah!! This week I want you to practice the new version of the doubles exercise! How to practice effectively: Make sure that all of your strokes come up in the exercise, especially the doubles. The goal is to get the singles and the doubles to sound [...]