Francisco: Practice "Overworld" with separate hands. Be careful with your fingering. The idea is that you must be able to play with each hand almost without looking. Read p. 41 ("Home of the Range"). Maria Ines: "In the Name of Love": Practice adding rhythm to the chords in the chorus. Follow the song's bass drum. Keep practicing the melodic breakdown [...]
Happy Easter everyone! Enjoy the weather and time with your family <3 Isabella *New* Octavius Octopus - this is a left hand only piece. Practice bouncing from C to C using your thumb and pinky. For the scale coming up, use a nice strong rounded finger 3 to play it. *New* First 4 bars of Copy Cat. This is a piece [...]
Enjoy the long weekend! Happy Easter <3 Liam *New* March of the Triplets - Triplets are when you make 3 notes fit into one beat equally. All 3 of the triplet notes should be exactly equal. Learn the LH part seperate first and be sure to play it lighter than the RH melody, or it will drown it out! (3 [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Review the one-bar jazz rhythms that we have been working on and practice the new two-bar phrases. How to practice it most effectively: Focus on maintaining the accent on the ride cymbal all the time when you’re playing jazz. [...]
Gerardo: "The Girl From Ipanema": Practice the variation in the A' section at the tempo you play the song. Play just the melody a few times and then add the left hand. Then, practice the song with a metronome from beginning to end. "Tchaikovsky's Theme": Practice A section and its repetition at a slow tempo with both hands. Be careful [...]
Samson Keep practicing the pattern from today and overall freedom with the bass drum. As a reminder: if "-" means rest and "|" means play, --|| -||- ||-| |--- is the pattern. Lucas Good work getting the subdivisions for the sixteenth notes down! Keep doing the same metronome work as before to reinforce your improvement and try to do it [...]
Francisco: Read "Home on the Range" (Piano Adventures pp. 40-41). Always have the tempo on your head while playing, so you can follow up with the half notes and eight notes. If you count out loud, remember to star in "3" (the upbeat). Try to read to the end. Maria Ines: "City of Stars": Practice the A section (the first [...]
Happy April Fools! I had no pranks for you today, and neither did you all for me. I appreciate it haha! Isabella (pg 57) A Joke For You - new notes! Bass C and D. (pg 58) Football Game - both hands in C position for the first time! You now know bass C, D and E! Notice the direction [...]
Hello Everybody! This is an important note about changes and dates as we look ahead to the summer and coming school year. This Month Digital Lessons are FarPlay-First As you may have seen from our note 2 weeks ago, we have started testing FarPlay.io as a new piece of software for digital lessons. This works on Apple/MacOS, Windows PCs, and [...]
Hi everyone! Naiara We began working through “Moon River” today. Here’s a link to your sheet music. Please spend some time learning it before we see each other this Saturday. Olivia Great work on “Jump!” We began working on O Canada today. Here’s a link to your sheet music. Remember - we’re singing it in C Major, so a little [...]