Have a great week everyone :) Daniel Formula pattern in G major now too. Today you missed the first "up" motion after the first "in and out", but great job otherwise. Note that when your hands are going apart the same fingers will be playing at the same time, and the thumbs will go under at the same time. This [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Practice the drum fills that we worked on in your lesson together with the jazz rhythm patterns that are in your folder. How to practice it most effectively: Practice playing four-bar phrases that end in a fill. This means [...]
Hello everyone! Enjoy the week, thanks for your hard work. Liam *New* Microstyles 2 Struttin’ - Keep the LH smooth and exactly on the beat. Bring out the RH melody and ensure that the parts of the melody that are on the beat are locked in (for example the two quarter notes in measure 3). Great reading today! Star Wars - [...]
Gerardo: "The Girl from Ipanema": practice playing the bass instead of the chords. Bossa Nova bass uses the root note and the fifth of each chords and plays them in half notes. "Tchaikovsky's theme": Practice the pedal for the whole song. Start with 110 bpm, and slowly speed up the song until you reach 126 bpm. Eliam: Piano Adventures p. [...]
Francisco: Practice the Overworld song with both hands. Practice Home on the Range. Keep the count on your head, and be especially careful with the half notes and eight notes. Read p. 42. "Jump. Shots" Maria Inés: "In the Name of Love": Practice the whole song, with the rhythm added for the left hand. Do not speed up (if you [...]
Hey folks! I hope you’re all enjoying the heat these days. Below is the homework for today, but I also wanted to quickly invite you all to a show I’m in this coming week and the next. The show is called “Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Today”. It’s a funny drama about the scientific genius, Emilie du [...]
Happy spring weather everyone! Enjoy your weekend <3 Jadon Canon x Memories - Great! Step 1 this week is to play the LH root notes while playing the Canon melody. Step 2 is to play the first 2 notes of the LH accompaniment part with the melody. Any more of the LH part you can do hands together is extra [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Practice the two-bar snare rhythms together with the ride cymbal pattern and foot pattern and work on adding in fills. How to practice it most effectively: Follow the same process that we did in your lesson: first play the [...]
Holy hot weather Batman! Spring is here :D Liam *New* The Matador - the A section is more bouncy, and the B section contrasts that by being legato and song-like. Play the melody louder than the rest. Begin getting Star Wars polished again for music party (May 6th or 7th), fill out performance worksheet once you’ve got it playable. If you don't [...]
Gerardo: "The Girl from Ipanema": Start practicing the Bossa Nova bass. For the A section, play half notes, changing between the root note and the fifth of each chord (i.e. Fmaj7 = F and C). "Thcaikovsky's theme": Play section A and its variant with the metronome (around 90 bpm). Make sure you practice the chord sequence first with the left [...]