Hello Everyone! Here is the homework for this week! Enjoy! Julian Recommended daily practice time is 5-10 minutes per day Songs: We have completed Level C in the faber adventure books! Congratulations Julian! We are now moving onto the level 1 Faber adventure book. We tried out both Firefly and Little River. You can play these during the week. Remember [...]
Hello Everybody! We hope you have been enjoying our winter Bells and Elephant classes! This is just a brief update to let you know that access to the Sunday class with Lenka "in Boston" has had a meeting ID change, so please refer to the class page for the season to get the updated access. Remember, you can attend this [...]
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. [...]
Thank you for another great week of lessons - I can hear lots of progress already! Emet For warmup this week, continue playing the D minor triads hands separately. The main focus here is connecting between the inversions when playing broken. Remember that RH uses finger 2 instead of 3 in the first inversion, and LH uses 2 instead of [...]
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 continuing to stay well and safe! Jaron - thank you for getting your violin tuned! - Recommended practice time: 15 min/day, 5 days/week- Practice: G, D, and A Major scales (focus on keeping your second and third fingers squeezed together, but your transition between strings has improved so much!), O Come Little Children (focus on the [...]
Abi: Continue to incorporate those articulation/ slurring exercise in you practice sessions! Those are sounding a lot better and they sound like they're improving your playing already. Nice job on Theme from New World Symphony. Beautiful tone throughout. Again, just the small details need work. Focus on articulation consistency, dynamics and if you get comfortable, vibrato as well! Next week [...]
Thanks for another great week of classes everyone! Dvorah For our 5-finger warmup this week try it in G position! (This means LH finger 5 - pinky - will be on G, and RH finger 1 - thumb - will be on G) instead of the usual C position. Remember to connect as much as possible between the notes. We [...]
Lucas Recommended Practice Time: 15-30mins What to practice: This week Lucas I want you to practice playing the Countdown exercise we learned. Its 4 strokes on the right hand, 4 strokes on the left hand, 4 strokes on the right foot, and 4 strokes on the left foot. You then do 3 strokes, then 2 strokes, then 1 stroke, and [...]
Hello Everyone! Here is the homework for this week! Enjoy! Julian Recommended daily practice time is 5-10 minutes per day Songs: We are almost at the end of our lesson book! Next week we can try to look at music in the Level 1 faber adventures book. In the meantime, you can continue to practice 'Let's play' the very last [...]