Happy snow day everyone! Enjoy the sunshine nonetheless :)

Jadon

Here’s the lead sheet we played today.  Now you have multiple lead sheets to practice playing hands together with.

Some ideas we explored for Avatar today were: drumming the rhythms HT to get the coordination of which beats go together, playing only the notes that land together and then filling in the other RH ones after that’s secure, playing the beat before the hands change positions to practice changing keys and positions seamlessly.

Grace

Nice work reading through Alone in a Crowd and Moon River. Keep playing around with them, I think rubato would be appropriate for both so feel free to bend the tempo a bit.

Cowherd’s Flute sounded great! If you wish to slow it down, go through it hands seperate keeping your eyes on the page as much as you can and try and learn it in such a way you don’t only rely on muscle memory.

Marco

*New Piece* Mission Impossible. This week you are learning the LH pattern that plays for almost the whole piece in G minor. Notice the key signature of Bb and Eb (G minor). Use consistent fingering for this pattern. You’re also learning the RH measures 6-9, the 8th notes of Bb and G stay the same and the lower note changes each repetition – use your thumb for the lowest notes.

Keep working on the Rhythm worksheet of dotted quarter notes and we’ll jam out together on them next week in real life :)

Daniel

Nice work completing level 1 of the RCM curriculum! Here is my assessment of your playing today :) Woohoo! Remember it is an assessment of your playing specifically today, and not of your playing as a whole.

*New Piece* from level 2: Periwinkle Twinkle. ***DOWNLOAD HERE*** Explore as much of this as you can this week. This piece begins in a sort of jazzy C/Cminor sound, then goes to F/Fminor, with some G jazziness later on. We know all those chords! I, IV, V! The LH fingering is very well done and useful, use it. Have fun with the jazzy rhythms, you read them well in class so I’m confident in you! Have fun with it!

Have fun with Stranger Things Kids and let me know what difficulties came up this week next lesson, as well as the composing activity.

Julian

Great work on Spring! This week practice it hands together as well as add in the loud start, and the quiet echo later on. I love your articulation and attention to detail on this one.

*New Piece* page 1 of Pirate of the North Sea. This piece is another D Major piece. Both hands are in D Major position. Keep your wrist nice and bouncy for the staccato chords, like knocking on a door. Pay attention to the 3 legato notes, and then the staccato notes following in the “I’m brawny and strong” section. You played it correctly articulated in class today :)