Hello Everybody! We will have a special live digital class this weekend with Erin, as our Lawrence Park location became unexpectedly unavailable. So, if you are sick, snowed-in, or just can't make it to class this week, take advantage of a live class from wherever you are. Using Zoom, Click Join Meeting and enter the number 450 129 3682. If [...]
Hakim All My Fellas - top notes only for now. Go slow and steady and use the written finger numbers. A Skating Waltz - In this piece the LH has the melody and should be the star. Play the RH light and bouncey. Listen here. C Major Contrary Motion Scale - this means playing your C scale with hands going [...]
Jared New Year's Goals: playing like Chad Smith (RHCP), one song per 4-6wk period, rudiments and warmups as needed, bookwork? Padwork --Triplet ex. (Goal Tempo=130) --Sixteenth-Note Exercise (goal tempo = 90) --Flams Accents: try "breaking down" this rudiment (slow-->max speed-->slow) --Singles, Doubles, Paradiddles - goal tempo: 130bpm Fall Out Boy - Dance, Dance *up until bottom of page 2 --Half-time [...]
Hello Everybody! As we are solidly in to January and the temperatures have finally dipped consistently below 0 degrees, winter illnesses have returned. We are also still have Covid to consider, which remains an active concern. For our part we continue to take precautions around health including vaccination, hand-washing, instrument cleanliness, and communicating with you about what we are doing, [...]
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Have a great week and stay warm everyone <3 Liam Russian Medley - piece 2 HT. Spend 70% time on piece 2, and 30% on keeping piece 1 in your hand. Great work. Harlequinade - HS. Learn LH. Great work with RH just watch lift in m4. Harmonic and melodic scales - Bm, Dm, Gm. Remember LH B starts with [...]
Myles New Year's Goals: bookwork 1 page per week, one song per month, warmups as needed Warmups (1min ea, as fast as comfortable) --8 on a Hand --Single Strokes --Double stokes Four kinds of paradiddle: Single (LRLL..) Double (RLRLRR..) Triple (LRLRLRLL..) and Paradiddle-diddles (RLRRLL or LRLLRR) Alfred, Solo #2: *learn the first three lines Drumset Musician Worksheet p. 12 ex. [...]
Hope everyone had an amazing holiday! Hakim C major - scale hands together. My Ordinary Life - LH bassline. Remember a dotted quarter note is 1.5 beats long (3 eighth notes long). Finger numbers are there to help you. Haunted Harp - LH plays F# G# A. RH plays C Db Eb. Use your directional and interval (step or skip [...]
Happy New year! NOVA Warmups (30 sec each) --8 on a hand --Singles; doubles; paradiddles --Roll exercise (apple-apple-watermelon-watermelon) *Alfred Lesson 6 ex. 1-6 *New Song: Scott Pilgrim --Work on the first three lines: Sound it out, play it in the correct rhythm, and get comfortable Xylophone --Piano Adventures p. 33 --Can-Can KOEL Warmups (1min each): -Triplet Exercise 110bpm -Sixteenth-note Exercise [...]
Happy 2024!! This year is going to be so musical and amazing. Everybody came back sounding like they hadn't even spent time away from the piano, so cool! Congrats to 4 of you that completed BINGO <3 Grace Sonatina Bureaucratique - Detach between octaves in last line of page 1. Top line of page 2, 3rd measure. Practice between 2nd [...]