Grace - Recommended practice time: 20 min/day, 5 days/week - Practice: G, A, B-flat, and C Major scales (2 octaves, make sure your intonation isn't too sharp and focus especially on new scale, B-flat Major), Minuet 2 (string crossings on open strings and then add fingerings when you're comfortable - don't be afraid to go crazy with the elbow and [...]
Will Hey Will. We talked about doing a lot of things today but I think it would be good to focus on just one for practising this week. This sheet contains drum patterns that require you to play single strokes on the hi-hat (mostly). Practising single strokes with a metronome will make you a faster drummer and get you closer [...]
Miranda: You’ve been doing a great job so far with all the trumpet playing we’ve been doing together. Just a couple notes on what to work on during the week. Breathing is the first thing that happens before you play trumpet. When you take a breath, be sure to feel like the air is filling from the bottom of your [...]
Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: 5-note major warmup (going up), 3rds sliding warmup (going down), Loyal Brave and True (karaoke), Half-time Show How to practice it most effectively: This week for your 5-note major vocal warmup, try using just the vowel "ah" (no consonants) and go up and back down. Please keep your vowel and throat nice and [...]
Jonah How many minutes to practise: 30 a day What to practise: Hi Jonah! Please practise all of Starlight. How to practise effectively: Play Starlight along to the recording. Samson How many minutes to practise: 15 a day What to practise: Hi Samson! Please practise the last two bars of the pre-chorus of Rock With You. How to practise [...]
Grace - congratulations on finishing Minuet 1! - Recommended practice time: 20 min/day, 5 days/week - Practice: G, A, and C Major scales (2 octaves, check intonation and make sure not to go too sharp), Minuet 2 (try to press fingers more firmly on the fingerboard and practice string crossings), and Minuet 3 (play through slowly and get familiar with [...]
Jonathan Full-kit paradiddles (#1-6). If you want, you can practise each pattern like this: Play along to a metronome at a slow tempo (ex. 50 bpm). Once you feel comfortable with the tempo, increase it (ex. raise it 10 bpm). Keep doing this until you get to a fast tempo (ex. 150 bpm). By coincidence, this video popped up on [...]
Jonah How many minutes to practice: 30 mins a day What to practice: This week Jonah I want you to work on playing Starlight all the way through using the beat sheet and form chart. In addition I also want you to practice this doubles exercise. How to practice effectively: This week Jonah focus on practicing the whole song, especially the end. See [...]
Diya Recommended minutes to practice: 15 minutes a day What to practice: Half-Time Show, major 5-note warmup (C to A), Loyal Brave and True (karaoke) How to practice it most effectively: For Half-Time Show, remember your FACE in the space saying - RH is only ever playing in these spaces doing repeated notes or skips. In bars 9-12 the hands are playing the exact same [...]
Grace - Recommended practice time: 20 min/day, 5 days/week - Practice: G, A, and C Major scales (2 octaves, with focus on C Major scale and make sure your starting third finger is not too sharp), Minuet 1 (make sure your fourth finger isn't pulling your second finger up, and prepare for final play-through next week), and Minuet 2 (focus [...]