February 23rd Assignments

Sebastian Missed you today Sebastian! How many minutes to practice: 15-30mins What to practice: This week Sebastian I want you to play 8-8-16 and Stick Control Exercise every day as well as working on the beat for Lesson 2 beats and reading. How to practice effectively: Good work today Sebastian! If you can see if you can get a hold of the [...]

2022-02-23T20:31:45-05:00February 23rd, 2022|

Lesson Notes Feb 22nd

Hi there, Good work this week everybody! take care, Ted Susan We worked on: Bach piece, Khebar improvising What to practice: familiarize yourself with the four different chords, experiment with soloing on chords in sequence, try soloing using the A harmonic minor scale   Aubrey We worked on: chromatic scale, soloing on a blues What to practice: familiarize yourself with [...]

2022-02-22T19:47:22-05:00February 22nd, 2022|

Assignments for the Week of Feb 17-23

Hi everyone, With the transition to ZOOM video lessons, I am no longer able to write down notes and musical material in the students’ books/binders. Instead, I have created PDF documents for each of you and dropped them into a Google Drive folder. The link to your documents is listed in the What to practice heading under your name below. [...]

2022-02-17T23:04:36-05:00February 17th, 2022|

Weekly Homework Post – February 16/17, 2022

I hope everyone has a fabulous long weekend ahead! Jaron - amazing work with both notation reading and playing today! - Recommended practice time: 15 min/day, 5 days/week - Practice: G, D, and A Major scales (doing our usual posture and bow hold check each time before playing, keeping an eye especially on our curved right thumb), and Andantino (watch [...]

2022-02-17T20:11:36-05:00February 17th, 2022|

Homework for week of Feb. 17-22

Hi all, Great work everyone! It is a joy to hear your music! Student 1: Vlada Recommended minutes to practice: 15 min per day (5 min of vocal warmups and 10 min of songs) What to practice:  Vocal warmups- use this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-3i2CJQo4I Song: Scarborough Fair How to practice it most effectively:  Print out the sheet music and sing along [...]

2022-02-17T16:16:03-05:00February 17th, 2022|

February 16th Assignment

Sebastian How many minutes to practice: 15-30mins What to practice: This week Sebastian I want you to play 8-8-16 and Stick Control Exercise every day as well as working on the beat for Lesson 2 beats and reading. How to practice effectively: Good work today Sebastian! If you can see if you can get a hold of the book we're using, its [...]

2022-02-16T19:16:42-05:00February 16th, 2022|

Lesson notes Feb 15th

Hi there, Good work this week everybody! take care, Ted Aubrey We worked on: chromatic scale, Khebar improv, Blues in the closet What to practice: practice playing the form of Khebar, look at blues chords, figure out arpeggios   Noah We worked on: scales, watermelon man, D blues scale What to practice: work on getting watermelon man melody up to [...]

2022-02-15T20:07:01-05:00February 15th, 2022|

DIRECTOR’S NOTE: How we inform you about Covid Contact/Tracing

Hello Everybody! We've recently had a question about how we handle informing you about possible contacts with Covid in our classes. When we hear from someone that they have a positive result, or a possible contact, we follow the following steps: We gather as much information from the reporting person as is possible.  Because we are dealing with personal health [...]

2022-02-14T13:17:34-05:00February 14th, 2022|

Long Weekend Reminders

Hello Everyone! This is a reminder about the upcoming Family Day Weekend. Please note that there are NO Music Together classes Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. Please note that there ARE lessons on Saturday and Sunday, but NO lessons on Monday.

2022-02-14T12:15:01-05:00February 14th, 2022|

Assignments for the Week of Feb 10-16

Hi everyone, With the transition to ZOOM video lessons, I am no longer able to write down notes and musical material in the students’ books/binders. Instead, I have created PDF documents for each of you and dropped them into a Google Drive folder. The link to your documents is listed in the What to practice heading under your name below. [...]

2022-02-10T22:39:42-05:00February 10th, 2022|
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