Happy new year! I hope everyone had a wonderful and restful winter break! 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 scales (continuing to do a posture and bow hold check each time before playing), Go Tell Aunt Rhody (last phrase in last 2 [...]
Nice to see you both again! Glad you had a good break and time to relax. Abi: Continue to keep up your trumpet fundamentals. Try to do the 4 or 5 note lip slurs everyday as well as a couple different major scales tongued and slurred - this will keep the mind & body fresh. Nice job sight reading those [...]
Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: Work through the chorus of the Violent Sun transcription. How to practice effectively: Go through each measure of the transcription in the chorus and break it down as much as you need. Here is a video of me playing it for audio/visual reference. And here is some fun listening if you're interested: [...]
It was really nice to meet everyone today. I'm looking forward to making music with you! Dvorah This week, let's get really comfortable knowing where C is - try to find every C on your keyboard! When we play piano, our fingers have number labels: 1 is thumb, 2 is pointer, 3 is middle, 4 is ring, and 5 is [...]
Hello! It was so great to meet everyone for the first time today and hear what you've been playing. Ken We will add a short warmup to your practice routine - this week we will do the C position minor (so using Eb instead of E) 5-note scale one hand at a time. Be sure to use fingers 1-5 in [...]
Hello everyone happy new year! Here you will find your homework for the week! Enjoy! Camille Recommended daily practice time is 5-10 minutes per day Songs: This week Camille played through quite a few songs! We will continue to play Men from Mars, but we will also move onto Ode to Joy and Sea Story! I encourage Camille to continue [...]
Hello Everyone! Happy New year! Here you will find the homework that is required for our next lesson. If you ever have any questions feel free to bring them with you to your next lesson. Enjoy! Zoe Recommended daily practice time is 25-30 minutes per day Songs: Next week there will be a test on German dance in D major [...]
Thank you for a wonderful first day! I really enjoyed meeting all of you and hearing what you've been working on. Nathalia I would love to meet/chat with one of your parents next lesson; we can discuss new book options as well as sending me photos of the pieces in your current book that you haven't yet played. We will [...]
Nice lesson! I think soon you're going to start to see some big improvements (if you keep practicing the way you do). We talked about a lot of things so I'm just going to go over some of the points I made. Warm up: Do these! The one warm up I mentioned was slurring from G to C and then [...]
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. [...]