Hi Everyone, Good work today! Hopefully, the new school year/work season is treating you well. Here are your assignments for the week: Lucas Recommended practice time: 10-25 min/day What to practice: Work on the exercises from your book I showed you today: (paradiddles, basic rock beat, and the other rock beat variations if you're feeling ambitious). How to practice: Remember [...]
Maria Ines Dandelions - Ruth B How to practice: Listen to the song to put the chords and melody together. If you have doubts about when a chord changes, search for the word in the song, and follow the melody up to that word. For the verse and pre-chorus, chords must be played only with the root note and 5th [...]
Hello Hello everyone ! It's lovely to meet you all. My name is Erin Plank and I use they/them or he/him pronouns. Isabella You're working on Charlie Chipmunk. If you forget the notes, a video can be found here. This piece is played on all black keys and can be played by any finger on either hand. The lyrics go "Char-lie Chip-munk [...]
Hi everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Will Recommended minutes to practice: 20-30 minutes per day What to practice: Review the first two pages of “Tom Sawyer” by Rush and start working on the new section at the end of page 3. How to practice it most effectively: The new section starts at the beginning of the last [...]
Hello everyone ! It was so lovely to meet you all. My name is Erin Plank and I use they/them or he/him pronouns. Fiona You're working on the Half Time Show piece in F position. Important things to remember are 1. Floating off the keys with our down-up wrist motion. 2. Paying attention to a steady beat, that includes rests! [...]
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Hi Jonah Good work today on the drums! Recommended practice time: 20-30 min/day What to practice: Keep playing uptown funk and any other songs you remember or want to learn. Try listening to some Jazz this week such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, or Duke Ellington (or just search "jazz" on youtube). I'll show you a basic beat next week. [...]
Maria Ines: What to Practice: D Major scale pattern, chords. How to practice: Once you are sure about the fingering, try to slowly speed up the tempo. For the chords: left hand should always play the root note (i.e. in a C major chord, left hand plays C). Right hand should chain the chords with the less amount of movement, [...]
Gerardo: What to practice: Jumpin' Jazz Cat, Allegro in D Major. How to practice: For Jumpin' Jazz Cat, using a metronome at 110 bpm. Scales in the left hand with the volume increase (crescendo). Pay attention to each one of the dynamics in the piece. For Allegro in D Major, read the first four bars with both hands. Make sure [...]
Hi everyone, Nice meeting you all today! Here are your assignments for the week: Lucas Recommended practice time: 20-25 min/day What to practice: Here's a basic rock beat: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zEseEPD8pBX6eY7liOL7fvYGSkSjKOee/view?usp=sharing. Just keep repeating the pattern and try to add a crash cymbal hit on downbeat (beat 1). How to practice: Try to use a metronome to work on making everything even. [...]