Anaya Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes a day What to practice: A Happy Song, Gee We're Glad, and Up to the Moon How to practice it most effectively: Please focus the most on Gee We're Glad this week, paying extra attention to repeated notes. Use your LH to help you point along on the page so you can really see the directions. You can [...]
Hello Everyone! Here is the homework for this week! Enjoy! Julian Recommended daily practice time is 10-15 minutes per day Homework: Good work Julian! You have a couple new songs this week. You may try out I'm a fine musician, and Paper Airplane. As always be sure to clap and count before you play. You will then count out loud [...]
Hello Everybody! We are days away from our recital! Have you Registered? If not, please call 416-651-7529 now. 11:30 is now open to everyone. How to Watch To watch simply go to www.facebook.com/abcmusictoronto at your chosen time. You may need to refresh the page if we have not yet appeared. We don't recommend watching while your student is also playing live [...]
It was nice to work on some new exercises with you! I hope you throw them into your practice sessions. Major scales into pedal register: This is one my favourites for warming up. Great for your air, chops and mind. The F and E sounded much more centred in this lesson, it seems like you're opening up more and able [...]
Hello Everybody! First off, we apologize for being a bit late with this quarterly update. The hoping and crossing of fingers that we could do some outdoor classes this spring had little effect on reality, as you have noticed! So where are we at? Well, we like to give you as much advance notice as possible about what we are [...]
Nathalia Recommended minutes to practice: 15 minutes a day What to practice: Runaround Sue (specifically the A sections) How to practice it most effectively: Today we decided that for Runaround Sue we would just play the 1st A section then directly into the 2nd A section. LH's staccatos are important for timing and feel in bar 8 and again in the second last bar. [...]
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. [...]
Abi: You're close to getting Power Ride together. Aim for playing 4 bar chunks without stopping, and eventually seam together the whole song. Take it slow and keep a close eye on articulation, dynamics and breathing. Try to feel comfortable on the first 8 bars of Etude in D. Don't get psyched out by the awkward phrase lengths and big [...]
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. [...]
I hope everyone is having a good week back to school from spring break! If you have decided to play in our recital on May 1st, make sure to register by calling the office! 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 [...]