Dear students, Great work today! Here is this week’s homework: Nova Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 per day What to practice: Juggler, Ode to Joy, C and G scales, theory p. 29, 31 (top exercises only) How to practice: Ode to Joy- continue with dynamics. Play with the extremities on both the loud and soft ends. Do not speed up [...]
Hi Efe! Wishing you and your family a great weekend. Here’s what I’d like you to work on this week. This Google Drive will have all the required material for this week. I'm having a delay right now. Everything will be there during the day on Sunday, January 18th. Efe - Jan 17th Regarding my notes on last semester's student [...]
Hello Everybody! Great lesson today! Berke: For practice this week please continue to work on Telemann's Andante in G minor. Berke is to review the right and left hand of the A section before attempting to play them hands together. Count out loud to help rhythmic accuracy and pay close attention to the designated fingerings of the left hand [...]
Hello Everyone! I hope you all stayed warm during the snow storm! I was happy to see some of you online via FarPlay this week. If anyone has any questions or needs help navigating the software, please let me know! Georgia: I hope you had a great snow day! Please continue to practice "Waltz Time" and we will review [...]
Francisco We did a play through of Smooth Criminal and I must say I am beyond proud of Zico for his effort learning this song. There were so many advanced concepts and challenging licks on this tune and Zico mastered them through very discipline practising. Though we did a play through, I would still encourage Zico to spend a bit [...]
Nova Great work today Nova! Here is this week’s homework: Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 per day What to practice: Juggler, Ode to Joy, C scale right and left hand How to practice: Juggler- practice the feeling of staccato (lightly tapping the key and releasing). You can do this by tapping random keys on the piano, playing a piece you [...]
Josh Recommended minutes to practice: Figure out what song you'd like to learn next with Thomas! How parents can support practice: help Josh pick his next song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHsN9d4FTVI Shayne How parents can support practice: Help Shayne pick some new songs for his next lesson with Thomas! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW8UlrtcEac Noah Great job this week, great reading! Recommended minutes to practice: try to review "Bulls on Parade" [...]
Jack For a long time we built beats around 7 beats as Jack is obsessed with the idea of 6 7 and somehow was very effective in keeping him actively counting while playing. Today we tried adding more beats and now making beats up to 9 beats, which is similar to our usual drumbeat, a eight beat cycle and a [...]
Hi Efe! Here's the rundown of what to do for this week. Chords Reacquaint yourself with the E, Em (E minor), G, and B chords. The Google Drive provided on December 6th shows you how to play the E chord. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1cURXZdyFoL_6FZX5V4COTxCljwXKq8wO The B chord is played on frets 7, 9, 9, and 8 going from the low E string up [...]
Hello Everybody! Happy New Year and welcome back! Berke: Today we started Andante in G minor. When Berke is practicing this song at home he should pay close attention to the labelled fingerings as these techniques will help Berke play more smoothly and efficiently. For this week Berke can review the first phrase hands separate. The goal this week is [...]