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 enjoying this stint of warm weather! Jaron - great job with sightreading Aunt Rhody today!- 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 (doing a posture and bow hold check before playing, and practicing going down the scale without hesitating), [...]
Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: This week Ella I want you to practice the coordination exercise everyday to either this song playlist or some of your own songs that are around the same tempo. Shoot for trying to be able to play through all the patterns at aa slow and medium tempo. In addition, see if you [...]
Great lesson today. I hope you were able to absorb a little bit of what I said about diminished and augmented families :-) I think you would really benefit from doing those long tones on C. I think that is the C-cret to expanding your range! You can just hold the C, or start mf and crescendo to almost max [...]
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. [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Clara Recommended minutes to practice: 5 min/day What to practice: Stand By Me & Ukulele Chords How to practice it most effectively: For Stand By Me try playing 2 and 4 strums per chord. Go through the chords that are checked off on the chord sheet and maybe try a few [...]
Abi: Continue to warm up with those long tones, I'm glad you do those. Try them a little longer and with added dynamics as well! Remember to do the lip slurs as well. Those will be great for your range and control. Major scales: Using the Circle of Fifths and your ear is a great way to go through all [...]
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. [...]
Ella Recommended Practice Time: 30mins What to practice: This week Ella I want you to play this coordination exercise everyday to this song playlist. In addition I want you to start picking up what you can of the beat to Arcade Fire's The Suburbs. How to practice effectively: The goal of this coordination exercise is to get used to playing [...]
Jaron - Great work on Song of the Wind today!- Reminder: Since the Wi-Fi connection has been lagging, see if you can set up at a spot closer to your router next lesson.- Recommended practice time: 15 min/day, 5 days/week- Practice: G, D, and A Major scales (with posture and bow hold check before playing), Twinkle theme and variations (one [...]