Hello Everyone! Vida: It was great to see you at Lawrence Park today! Now that you are confident with both the right and left hands of "Under the Sea" work towards playing the whole song hands together. Play slowly to allow your hands the time to line up in the music. Pay close attention to the macro beat of the song. Write this [...]
Hello Everyone! Noreet: Welcome back! We were talking about the student recital before you left for Europe, it was supposed to be May 4th in person but unfortunately we had to cancel. However we are offering a digital recital instead! Today Noreet recorded "Ice Cream" and "More Ice Cream" to be added to the digital recital. Barnaby will be [...]
Henry Great work today Henry! Here is your homework: How long to practice: 5-10 minutes per day What to practice: Rain on the Roof, Only Love Can Break Your Heart How to practice: Rain on the Roof- practice with a metronome to get rhythm precise, repeat a passage at least three times to learn it correctly Only Love- Review How [...]
Josh Shuster Keep working on "Livin on a Prayer," focusing on the ride cymbal groove for the chorus, as well as the fill right before the guitar solo. How to practice it most effectively: Practice the chorus (Ride cymbal) groove with and without the music! Maybe practice the song from YouTube at 0.75 playback speed. Myles Jubé Practice "Dreaming" on drum [...]
Jack Great job concentrating and keeping time this class! We created a cool drum pattern to play with Thriller today and we will look to get familiar with the pattern next class! Nova We have now fully learnt Cupid and our goal is to record a video next week with myself on accompaniment! If stuck on a tricky rhythm, count [...]
Hello Everybody! School Year 2025 We are now beginning our Fall 2025 re-registration, and our summer registration. For the autumn, you will receive an email invitation to register through the system. This time will be held and will be set to expire on Friday. The autumn times will be set to the recommended length from your spring report (which may [...]
Hello! I have a few reminders and updates for you all. First, Berke has informed me that he does not have access to his chrome book this week! So if you could kindly remember to share this email with him that will be super helpful for Berke's practice this week. Second, while I know the in person recital was cancelled, [...]
Hello! I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who submitted a video for the digital concert! I'm very much looking forward to seeing everyone's performances! Vida: Great progress with Under the Sea! Continue to review the melody in the right hand. Read and play through bars 29-35 on their own this week. Encourage Vida to use all [...]
Henry Great job Henry! Here is your homework for Wednesday: Duration: 5-10 min a day What to practice: Only Live Can Break Your Heart Rain on the Roof Theory from last lesson How to practice: Only Love- Remember that each key has a finger and it should stay on its key the whole time. If you read the sheet and [...]
Henry Great work Henry! Here is Saturday’s homework: How long to practice: 5-10 min per day What to practice: Rain on The Roof, Theory pages 40-41 How to practice: Get fingers used to staying on the piano so that they are always ready to play, do not stop at bar lines How parents can support practice: -Make sure he’s keeping [...]