Jack Great work today! Using the Puss in Boots theme song (link), work on these three techniques: 1) Playing the beat with your LH 2) playing along with the sticking L-R-L-rest, repeatedly 3) playing along alternating between "L-R-L" and "R-L-R" Tracie Goals for this year: --T: low expectations, leisurely, FUN! --Continue Deftones: Minerva (different forms of counting) Warmups: --Triplet exercise [...]
Sara Technical Exercises - Working through new key this week: E Major (4 sharps) Overall thinking about larger groupings of notes/fingers and thinking ahead instead of thinking of what you are doing. E Major Technique Fingerings - Sara Scales: E Major hands separately 1 octave first, working towards hands together 2 octaves - thinking about hand position groupings as opposed [...]
Hello everyone! Great seeing you all this week. Here are notes for your lessons: Eva What we learned/reviewed in lesson: Reviewing finger numbers on both left hand and right hand Rhythm playback Black keys — counted 7 groups of two and 7 groups of 3! Hand position, soft “c” shape Reviewed pages 10-13 (Faber Primer), play through pages 15 and [...]
Myles Goals for this year: --Xylophone and Reading --Learn 5 songs this year Warmups: --Flam Paradiddles (rL-R-L-L lR-L-R-R) --8 on a Hand, goal tempo= 130bpm using a metronome (free app download, or purchase one at a music store) John Mayer: Gravity --Please learn this by ear this week (it's brand new, but very simple) --Can you identify how to count [...]
Nova Goals this year!: --Nova has a xylophone now! --Gary Burton and Chick Corea: four mallet technique --Hamilton musical: drum set stuff --Bloom from Scott Pilgrim --Photo ID Remi Wolf(?); Sabrina Carpenter; Call Me By Your Name; Over it by Dux Warmups: --Stick Control first 13 exercises Remi Wolf: Photo ID --Intro fill (3e a4e+ ) --Main beat: Basic beat [...]
Hello everyone! It was great to meet you all. Here are notes from your lessons: Eva What we learned: tracing out the hands, recognizing left and right with corresponding numbering (LH:54321 RH:12345) practicing patterns (ex: 123, 321, 131. 135, 432, etc) moving to the keyboard, noticing patterns across the piano (groups of two and three going up and down) [...]
Hello everyone, it was great to meet you all and get started this week! Here are the notes from this week's introductory lessons, I am looking forward to jumping into work next week. -Trevor F. Sara: Review technical exercises (scales/triads) in your favourite key from June's exam so we can jump into something new next week. Continue working through "The [...]
Hello Everybody! We are an unbelievable 1 week away from starting the new school year! You'll likely see an uptick in messages from us during this time, but for the moment please take the time to install the latest update to FarPlay so that when you need to have a digital lesson you have the most recent version ready to [...]
Music has an amazing way of influencing our cognitive abilities. Music boost kids concentration, coordination, and sparking creativeness. In this post, we’ll explore how music lessons, and music programs for all ages improve the 3 C´s of Music. The younger the age and the more frequent the exposure, the greater the benefit over time, additionally this works at any age! [...]
Intriguing about the ways to improve your kids’ self-esteem? Music has the power to touch your kids’ hearts, uplift their spirits, and even shape your lives. Music is a universal language that transcends frontiers, and its benefits are boundless. One of the most remarkable aspects of music education is its ability to enhance a child's self-confidence. In this blog post, [...]