Happy Mother's Day! Sahil Recommended minutes to practice: 15 minutes a day What to practice: C position skips warmup, major triads from all white keys, Hey, Mr. Half Note Dot, Alouette, and the Beyblade songs. How to practice it most effectively: For the C position skips warmup, take one hand at a time and use fingers 1-3-5 to play skips C-E-G-E-C. These are the fingers we [...]
Abi: Nice lesson this week! Try to do some mouthpieces warm ups this week to get the face and air flow feeling good. Continue to do the lip slurs and major scales in your daily practice. I'd like to hear all of Etude in D for next week. Matt: Looking forward to finishing up all that RCM stuff. Great job [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
Congratulations to those who played in our recital on Saturday! I'm so proud of you all! Jaron - Recommended practice time: 15 min/day, 5 days/week - Practice: G, D, and A Major scales (with our usual posture and bow hold check each time before playing), Long Long Ago (play through without stopping and with dynamics soft/loud in the third line), [...]
Lucas Recommended Practice Time: 15-30mins every day What to practice: This week I want you to play all of the beats in Lesson 3 eight times!! How to practice effectively: First get the hi-hat part solid while counting OUT LOUD, then add the snare drum, and then when you're ready, figure out the counts the bass drum comes on and add it [...]
Dvorah Recommended minutes to practice: 10 minutes a day What to practice: Petit Minuet, Rodeo How to practice it most effectively: In Petit Minuet we have a new time signature, 3/4, as well as a new RH position (finger 1 on D). When we are in a new position like this, it helps to say/sing the letters out loud while you play. In 3/4 [...]
Anaya Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes a day What to practice: Up to the Moon, C Position on the Grand Staff, Row Row Row, finishing up #5 on page 47. How to practice it most effectively: Up to the Moon will be a warmup song this week - play it once with your RH and once with your LH! It's in C [...]
Keep on working on those descending major scales into the pedal register. Again, these are a great warm up for getting the air and face feeling relaxed. Use your ear as a guide when you get below that F#. Try for Eb or D major. Slurs were looking & sounding like they were a little harder today, and that certainly [...]
Good morning everyone! We had a wonderful set of digital recitals on the weekend, and I congratulate everyone that participated. There were some truly amazing performance, some wonderful first time efforts, and all excellent choices! Highly ambitious and appreciated efforts from everybody in our wonderful community. Click here so you can now watch and share the video replays to your [...]