Hello Efe and family! Wishing you a good week! Here is this week’s material. This week’s Google Drive folder: Feb 7th Last week’s Google Drive folder: Jan 31st This week’s Google Drive — Acoustic Open — The piece I wrote for you to learn musical notation with. The PDF here is of this piece. Here are some pictures of the [...]
Hello Everyone! I hope you're all staying warm this week! Euan: For warm up this week please use a metronome when playing your C Major scale. Review the scale playing hands separately first before trying to play hands together. When playing hands together, try your best to line up each note with the click of the metronome as this [...]
Great work today students! Here’s this week’s homework: Nova Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: Juggler, Ode to Joy, C and G scales, Ruler of My Heart How to practice: Juggler- review Ode to Joy- Great dynamic buildup! Watch rhythms, make sure they are steady Scales- Good work, especially C in right hand! Remember to [...]
Josh We continued working on Numb today. The 16th note bass drum note in bar 2 is what tricks Josh the most. I encourage him to continue zooming in to smaller chunks, practising the coordination slow, before trying to play the full bar. Look forward to introduce more grooves from the tune to him in coming lesson. Aleksander We started [...]
Hi Efe! So sorry I couldn’t be at the lesson today. I should be well for next time. This week's Google Drive: Efe - Jan 31st Here’s what to look at for this coming week. Em pentatonic scale New backing track: Em Blues This backing track is a little faster than the one from before. Try bends and vibrato here, [...]
Dear students, Great work today! Here’s this week’s homework: Nova Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 min per day What to practice: Juggler, Ode to Joy, C and G scales, theory p. 29 risky rhythms, p. 31 tricky time signatures How to practice: Juggler- Staccatos are much better! Practice them particular in the Cs section, especially with finger 1 as that’s [...]
Jack Jack came up with a more complicated 4 beat pattern today and what was most impressive was his resilience to repeat it more than 4 times in a row, playing them back to back. We will try to add in some sort of foot coordination next class. There is a video of him repeating the pattern on the drive [...]
Josh Over the Thursday lesson and Saturday makeup lesson, we first worked out the 3 over 2 pattern on Ticket to Ride, then we started on Numb by Linkin Park. I encourage Josh to still practise the 3 over 2 pattern a bit at home, but next lesson we will continue working out Numb. Right now, the 16th note bass [...]
Hi Efe and family! Wishing you guys a great week! Here is what to look at this week. Em (E minor) pentatonic scale Memorize the new frets added to this scale. — This Google Drive shows the frets. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1faNAHa6PfakFLpwZRjcAnOtmbvmd74Os?usp=drive_link Play with this scale over this backing track. The same as before. Slow Em Blues backing track Experiment with: Different speeds. [...]
Hello Everybody: I hope you're all staying warm this weekend! Georgia: For this week, Georgia is to continue practicing "Waltz Time". The song is in good shape, Georgia is playing the phrases smoothly and accurately, but sometimes needs clarification on certain notes. To help Georgia connect the names of the keys to the names of the notes on the [...]