Hope everyone's Thanksgiving weekends were lovely and restful :) Jadon Amazing work putting My Heart Will Go On together. Work on connecting the top of page 2 to the chorus now. You can also start thinking about playing the RH louder than the LH so the melody really shines through. Recommended practice: 25-30 minutes Grace On Playful Snakelets, practice the overlapping passages "beat [...]
Hello, hello everyone! Hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving and are enjoying our pumpkin spice weather. Isla This week we: Started a new song! Very excited to start working on “If I Were a Bell” with you. Here is a link to the sheet music, as well as a video of a performance, and your track. Recommended minutes to [...]
Hello Everybody! As we are now into school year routines it is very important that you are getting your homework to your email, and know where to find the backup if your email is one of the rare ones that doesn't work with our systems. In both cases you need to visit your Teachers' Page on our website. Once on [...]
Emet Keep working on Heartbreaker and Black Dog, those sound great. Practice Can't Stop for next week. Try to incorporate alternating picking into these tunes. Practice that picking exercise we worked on: up and down the strings, starting with both down and up strokes. Do the same exercise but skip strings (E D, A G, D B, G E). Practice [...]
Jayden Keep working on Smells like Teen Spirit, it's sounding great. Keep working on those "dead" rhythmic strums where you aren't pressing down. I want you to find a way of doing this which is functional and comfortable for you. Keep working on I Bet You Look Good On the Dance Floor for next time. Practice those picking exercises we [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Review the notes I gave you from our lesson on xylophone and keep working on Tom Sawyer. How to practice it most effectively: Remember the things we talked about with half steps and whole steps moving up the keyboard. [...]
Hello everyone! I hope your Thanksgiving weekends were lovely if you celebrated :) and if you didn't, I hope your 3 day weekend was restful! Fiona You're working on Paper Airplane. I was very impressed by how clean you can play 5 finger scales! You're playing with your fingerTIPS and it's awesome! Now just remember to always keep your wrist supported [...]
Gerardo: Start reading "Ice Skaters". Sonatina in D major: For the first two lines in the second page, practice slowly with both hands. For the last two lines, read first with separate hands, and then put both hands together. Practice the whole piece with the repetition. Caedan: "Princess or Monster?" (p. 68) make sure you don't stop between notes, specially [...]
Francisco: Super Mario Bros: practice up to what we saw in class. C major scale: doing parallel and oposite movement. Be careful with the fingering. Maria Ines: Practice Bb sequence (parallel and opposite movement) Before you go: Play chords with the left hand and melody with right hand. Remember that in the verse, the chords fall before the melody. Pay [...]
Jadon You're working on My Heart Will Go On, with emphasis on the chorus and tricky spots we went over in class. Play the upper voice only in the octaves for the melody. You're also working on Pumpkin Boogie as a quick study. The most important part is that you "get" that off beat rhythm. 1 2 3 4. 1 [...]