Jaron - congratulations on finishing Allegretto! - 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), and Andantino (focus on third line and leap 1-3, and scale-like phrase) Olivia - hope your rehearsal went well today! Keep on practicing your 2-octave scales, [...]
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 1 at a faster tempo. How to practice effectively: Each day I want you to warm up by playing some 8-8-16 and working on your full/legato stroke. Focus [...]
Hi there, Back to in-person next week, excited to meet some of you! Also, if anyone is free, I'm playing a gig at the jazz bistro this Thursday, February 10th. It's a sax-bass-piano trio and should be fun! take care, Ted Susan We worked on: tonguing lighter (using tee or dee), Bach Minuett, Khebar, ear training. What to practice: [...]
D major Extensions are looking SO great. congrats, looks like it clicked together this week lets work on increasing the tempo of the scale, and making everything smooth together make everything even try 4 per bow Repeated shifting exercise starting on an up bow, on open D string increase tempo and use less bow try with a metronome: start at [...]
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Jonathan Recommended amount of practice time: 30 mins a day What to practice: This week Jonathan I want you to practice Peters Etude 1 with doubles and the Amen Break How to practice effectively: Good work with the Peters Etude this week. For this next week try making the sticking for the 16th notes RRLL and then any combination of notes will follow [...]
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. [...]
Jaron - 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), Allegretto (continue practicing playing through whole piece without stopping or slowing down, make sure the accents are obvious, and practice 0-3-0 phrase in the third section), and Andantino (differentiate between 3-2-1-0 [...]
Hello all, It's nice to hear you making progress on your instrument! Remember that the more consistent you can be with your effort, the easier it is to get where you want to! Student 1: Caedan Keep up the enthusiasm! Recommended minutes to practice: 10 minutes per day What to practice: start with Old Macdonald, keep doing 2 pages a [...]
Jonathan Recommended amount of practice time: 30 mins a day What to practice: This week Jonathan I want you to practice Peters Etude 1, and the Amen Break How to practice effectively: Great job this past week, for next lesson focus on working through the Peters Etude and don't forget to count where you need it! And then also work on the Amen [...]