Dvorah Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes a day What to practice: A scavenger hunt, March on C-D-E-F-G, Men From Mars How to practice it most effectively: When doing our scavenger hunt, switch over from LH to RH once you get to the middle of the piano. This way you're not reaching across your body. For March on C-D-E-F-G, please [...]
Lucas Recommended Practice Time: 15-30mins every day What to practice: This week Lucas I want you to play through Lesson 2 in addition to practicing the beat at the end of Lesson 1. How to practice effectively: With lesson 2 just do your best counting the 8th notes, they are counted as 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +. [...]
Gianna Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes a day What to practice: C major full scale vocal warmup (from middle C up until the next C then back down, singing the letters as you go), Life is an Adventure chorus - putting notes to the melody. You can also experiment with choosing some notes for the verse and we will check [...]
Breathe ! Breathe more !! These five note slurs are getting better & better every week. Keep up the focus on those and you'll see results in many other aspects of your playing. Practice them with different starting points/ fingerings to get comfortable everywhere, which will all help the actual goal of slurring from C->G->C->E->G. Remember to keep the air [...]
Emet Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes a day What to practice: D major triads (hands separately, solid and broken), Hunting Song (full form), and Piano Man (hands separately until bar 34). How to practice it most effectively: For the triads keep your hands fairly high into the keys for every inversion fo you can easily reach the F#. Remember that RH [...]
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: Try to go for some 2 octave scales this week. G, Ab, A or Bb would be a good place to start. Try them tongued and slurred to make them both equally comfortable. This is a good place to work on that smoother tonguing. All the songs you've been playing are coming along nicely. Go for a more refined [...]
Lucas Recommended Practice Time: 15-30mins every day What to practice: This week Lucas I want you to play the Hand Exercises of Lesson 1 as well as the beat breakdown at the end. How to practice effectively: Be sure to keep a steady pulse when you're counting and playing, go as slow as you need to but not so slowly [...]
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- Reminder: if you can, please purchase Suzuki Violin Book 1- Recommended practice time: 15 min/day, 5 days/week- Practice: G, D, and A Major scale (doing a posture and bow hold check each time before playing, and make sure you squeeze your second and third fingers together!), O Come Little Children (we are so close to finishing - try to [...]