Hello everyone! Any students I saw in person today, you have received your fall report cards. Online people (that are always online) you will receive your report card in the mail shortly - Julian I will give you yours next week when I see you. Let me know if you have any questions or comments :) Marco You’re focusing on [...]
Hello Everybody, We are quickly approaching the holiday season, and in advance of that we have prepared our first round of Progress and Recommendation reports for our students. You should be receiving these directly from your teacher this week and next if you are coming for In-Person Hybrid lessons. If you are a Pure Digital lesson student, your reports will [...]
Gerardo: "Allegro in D major": Review the last four bars of the piece, specially the notes indicated in class. Practice that passage slowly, paying special attention to those notes. "Ice Skaters": practice with the dynamics indicated. Before playing, think a tempo that suits you for the eight notes. After that, think what the quarter note is in that tempo and [...]
Emet Keep working on Eye of the Tiger, it's sounding great! Focus on that intro this week. Also practice the riff of Barracuda. I think that song will help with the intro of Eye of the Tiger, as they use a similar technique. Work on Dream On this week. Try to play along to the song, and figure out the [...]
Francisco: "The Entertainer": Practice the left hand seen in class (first alone). Then, play the last phrase with both hands as shown. If needed, see the supporting material. Be particularly careful with the fingering there. Maria Ines: F major scale, parallel and contrary motion, both hands. D major chords and arpeggios, with both hands separately. "In the Stars": Put together [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Elliot Recommended minutes to practice: 15-20 minutes per day What to practice: Practice playing all the way through Black Dog using the sheet music available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10YGpSqgr9Z2SExyhXz7k1evG3C0t2VEc?usp=share_link How to practice it most effectively: You’ve done really great work with this song! The last step is to try to put it all [...]
Hello everyone! Winter is upon us :) stay safe and enjoy the snowy weather. Isabella You’re working on Driving in the G Clef. G clef is what people sometimes call the treble clef because it swirls around the G. This piece is all RH. You’re also working on Best Friends. This piece uses both hands. When two notes line up [...]
Isla What we worked on: We finished “If I Were a Bell” and began working on our new song, “A Guy That I’d Kinda Be Into.” Recommended minutes to practice: 15 minutes a day. What to practice: Familiarize yourself with the first two verses of the song. Here’s a track to practice with. You start singing at 0:07. If you find that track [...]
Lizzie What we worked on: We reviewed our fingers and our dynamics. We learned that f means loud and p means quiet. We also learned about the quarter note today! Recommended minutes to practice: 10 minutes a day What to practice: Look at the new songs about the quarter note. We started working on one using the groups of two black [...]
Hello everyone! Happy snow! Happy winter is here! Stay safe :) Fiona You're working on Kites in the Sky. This piece uses cascading C Major triads to sound really pretty. We move our LH up over our right to play the top notes so that everything can stay nice and legato and connected. Make it as beautiful as you can (since you [...]