Happy spring weather everyone! Enjoy your weekend <3

Jadon

Canon x Memories – Great! Step 1 this week is to play the LH root notes while playing the Canon melody. Step 2 is to play the first 2 notes of the LH accompaniment part with the melody. Any more of the LH part you can do hands together is extra credit :)

Interstellar – sounding great! Keep plugging away at it, and I love the pivoting wrist in your LH. Exactly the right technique!

Marco

Great job on March of the Terrible Trolls. This week let’s work on keeping your fingers strong so that the C minor pattern stays even. Feel each finger make clear contact with the keys one at a time. Practice it all staccato to make it clean, then play it again as written and try and keep the even sound.

For Young Ludwig, work on connecting the first 4 bars with the last 4. Practice the RH Ab-Ab-Ab-G part onwards hands together.

A minor triad pattern. Play these broken and solid hands seperately. Fingers 135 are the norm, and 125 works great for certain inversions. Use what feels comfy, and keep it consistent. ACE, CEA, EAC, ACE.

B major scale. The only white keys are B and E, which makes our typical fingering very logical! RH is 123 12345 (thumb on white keys) and LH is 4321 4321.

Daniel

*New* Formula pattern. To begin getting used to this format, it’s totally fine to stop at each spot the direction changes, but the end goal is to eliminate any hesitation when changing directions (that’s the point of this exercise)

*New* Ditty of Yimeng Mountain. Have fun exploring this one! Here’s a lovely performance of this arrangement. Roll the chords from the bottom to the top with a nice wrist movement.

Allegretto – Great reading and attention to the articulation! As you learn the notes better, try to use consistent fingering to begin creating muscle memory. Notice the B section sequence I outlined. Sequences are so fun in Baroque music because you get to “terrace” the dynamics, this is where the music abruptly changes dynamic in steps (because harpsichords couldn’t do gradual dynamic changes). Notice how each of the sequences gets quieter.

Isabella

*New* D major scale. This uses the same fingering as your other scales, but it has two black keys: F# and C#. RH fingering is 123 12345, LH is 54321 321.

All of Copy Cat with dynamics. F for forte means to play loud, p for piano means to play quietly. This piece goes loud, soft, loud, soft. Be sure you are playing them like this :) Great reading today!

Julian

*New* C major triad pattern. Play these solid (all 3 notes at the same time) as well as broken (one note at a time) hands seperately. Fingers 135 are usually used, but 125 can be used when it’s more comfy, just keep it consistent.

*New* Aardvark Boogie. What an awesome piece! It’s in A position, and when the hands play together, they’re playing the exact same notes. Counting and a steady groove is most important in this piece. You can play the accented note (>) louder than the rest for a jazzy feel. Here is a recording if you need help with anything. Great reading today!