Happy March Break everyone! Enjoy it <3 Jadon The Swing - **DOWNLOAD BY CLICKING TITLE** This is your March Break reading practice. It's a beautiful piece, enjoy. Avatar - greattttt progress! Begin working on the beginning, in addition to the spot you're already tackling. The most important spots to practice are the beats before and after changing keys/positions. Work at a slow [...]
MARCH 2023 • IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT DIGITAL LESSONS! Starting Monday, March 13th we are testing new software to improve our digital lessons: Farplay.io This software has the potential to close what we think is the most important remaining gap we see in digital service: Being able to play together at the same time! This is a big deal, and we [...]
Mike Let It Be is sounding great! Keep practicing the chords and the melody. Play along to the song doing both. Nice work today on the soloing ideas! Remember that the different techniques we went over are lenses for us to switch out and change between. Focus your practice on the major ideas, and the minor pentatonic ideas. Experiment with [...]
Enjoy your March break everyone! You work really hard and it shows <3 Liam *New* Minstrel Song. Be sure to play your Bbs when they occur. Again, balance to the RH melody. Dark Eyes. Work on playing the LH quieter, like a beautiful violin accompaniment to your RH melody. Try shaping "to" the dotted quarter note, as in make it the loudest, [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Practice the 16-bar exercise from Lesson One and practice the first seven exercises on the new page provided here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17pjkCZ1jfMdjwRqFBMaPIG_hKMb3gQGz?usp=share_link How to practice it most effectively: Focus on keeping the ride cymbal and hi-hat steady and maintaining the accent [...]
Gerardo: Practice the A section of "Tchaikovsky's theme" with both hands. Always keep counting in your head the six beats, until you can feel you have the rhythms solved. Once you feel comfortable playing with both hands, add the dynamic marks. (rit.= gradually slowing down the tempo). Also, take a few minutes of your practice time for The girl from [...]
Hello Aurora's students, This is a reminder that there are no lessons this Saturday, March 11th, and that your lessons have been moved to the 18th of March (part of the make-up week), in-lieu, which will be fully digital. Thank you!
Emet Nice work on Blue Orchid and Hardest Button to Button! Those are sounding really good. Play along to the songs this week! Great work on Under Cover of Darkness! This song is tough but it is really fun. Focus on the riff in the intro this week. Listen to the song if you need a reference. Try out the [...]
Francisco: Mario Song: Practice with the technique explained in class for the thirds. Slowly raise the tempo of the song. Piano Adventures p. 37 "French Minuet". Go from beginning to end, and be particularly careful with the skips between notes that you marked on your book. Maria Ines: Payphone: Practice the chorus of the song several times. Use a metronome [...]
Hi everyone! I had a great time tonight, it was really awesome to see some old faces! Here are some things to work on in the coming week: Samson: This week Samson try working on playing the jazz ride pattern with Such Sweet Thunder by Duke Ellington. Try to build it up like we did starting first with quarter [...]