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 lovely fall weather and staying safe! Jaron - your posture was looking fantastic today!- Reminder: Check if your school library has Suzuki Violin Book 1; I have also included a link to the book on Amazon below- Recommended practice time: 15 min/day, 5 days/week- Practice: A, D, and G Major scales (continuing to do [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Katarina Recommended minutes to practice: 5 min/day What to practice: Mary Had A Little Lamb How to practice it most effectively: Spend a few minutes on the guitar each day! Play what you know so far and we'll learn the ending next week! Lucien Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day What [...]
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. [...]
Hello Everybody! We'll jump right in and let you know that we will not be holding in-person classes this fall. While we are technically allowed to have gatherings of up to 50 people, we would have also needed to have impermeable barriers between people which is logistically not possible. We regret that this is the case. We are proceeding with [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Hugo Recommended minutes to practice: 20 min/day What to practice: Blackbird, All The Things You Are, Improvising How to practice it most effectively: For improvising, try playing either 1 or 2 notes at a time in the C scale. Have a good week! Trevor
Great job again this week everybody, its super fun teaching such a talented group! Ella Fantastic work this week Ella, I could tell the hi-hat exercise is helping you and that you had put some work in! Keep chunking through stuff and breaking things down this week and really go for pushing those tempos in a relaxed way! Recommended Practice [...]
Nice getting to know you a little bit this first lesson! You have a great grasp on the foundations of the trumpet which will making learning new concepts a breeze. What To Practice: Lead Pipe Buzzing: 10 mins. For this exercise, you have to remove the tuning slide... don't lose it! Take a healthy breath, and begin to buzz through [...]
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 - Great work on Lightly Row and Twinkle Little Star Variation B today!- Reminder: see if your school library has Suzuki Violin Book 1- Recommended practice time: 15-20 min/day, 5 days/week- Practice: A, D, and G Major scales (with posture check before each scale), Twinkle Little Star (Theme and variations B, C, and D, making sure the groupings of [...]