Hello All! Your lesson notes are as follows: Eva What we learned/reviewed in lesson: Worked through composition/spelling exercises — played CAB, BAG, and our seven letter work, CABBAGE on the piano! Began looking through 10 second song Recommended minutes to practice: 10-15 minutes, 4 to 5 days a week What to practice: Finger number patterns (most recent version) 10 Second [...]
Henry Recommended minutes to practice: 5-10 per day What to practice: Itsy Bitsy Spider- first line with counts that I wrote on your music sheet Teaching Little Fingers to Play- review page 5 Stepping and Skipping Theory book- complete page 45 How to practice most effectively: Itsy Bitsy- Follow the counting according to how the note is written in relation to [...]
Josh Post Malone: I Had Some Help --Good work on this! --To help get that main beat coordinated at performance speed, isolate the "2 + 3" portion of it, making sure to line up the bass drums with the hihats. When isolated, you do a great job of this at high speeds. Can you bring the same coordination to the [...]
Hello Everybody! We are writing to update you that Chris has an amazing opportunity to join and play with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England over a number of weeks in December and January for the second time, and that we are delighted to support him in this effort. How cool is that? We'll ask him to provide some video [...]
Jack Benny Greb Rhythmic Alphabet --Spelling "JACK" and "DYLAN" Using these words, play along to Sum 41: In too Deep Tragically Hip: 50 Mission Cap --Learning the beat (Bass-Snare-Bass-Snare) and playing along with the song while I play piano Xylophone --Learning the musical alphabet (ABCDEFG) --Visually identifying C on the keyboard --Spelling "Dad" and "Egg" on the keyboard Koel Warmups [...]
Hello all! Your lesson notes are as follows: Eva What we learned/reviewed in lesson: We have started learning how to read sheet music!! Congratulations!! Here are some things that we learned for reading music: Treble clef (all notes above middle C); the center of the swirl lines up with G Bass clef (all notes below middle C); the center [...]
Hakim Technical Exercises - Continuing work on C Major 1 octave scale Adding in G Major 1 octave scale this week - continuing to practice as solid blocked chords and then stepping through. Using the same fingerings for G Major as C Major (groups of 3 and 5 fingers) Scale Fingerings - Hakim Nov 20 Bartok - Working through exercises [...]
Henry Recommended minutes to practice: 5-10 per day What to practice: Itsy Bitsy Spider first line with counts that I wrote on your music sheet, theory book colouring on p. 19 and finish numbering lines/spaces on pp. 26-27. How to practice it most effectively: Follow the counting according to how the note is written in relation to the numbers above; e.g. If a [...]
Myles Drumset Musician p81 ex. 9-12 --Polish these off this week ***PLEASE PRINT***Weezer: My Name is Jonas --Drill the intro and main groove on p.1 --See worksheet for explanation of new bass pattern: master each exercise and then we'll put it in context next week --For next week, we'll warm up with some of these fills (V1 out fill) Xylophone: [...]
Shakira Technical Exercises Finding and playing 5 finger major scales in a C, G, and D position. (Watching out for F# in D Major!) Practicing a C Major 1 octave scale, hands separately - practicing as solid blocked hand positions (groups of 3 and 5 fingers), as well as stepping through the whole scale. Bartok - Practicing reading exercises #1-3 [...]