Gergely Szabo

Hi everyone! Thanks for the hardwork this week! Maria and Noreet, get well soon! <3

Hakim

*New* Chant of the Monks – this is your first written piece with hands playing together in parallel motion. Giving the half notes (the hollow ones) 2 counts is very important. Count while you are playing. You know how to read the RH notes, not the LH yet, which is why they filled in the notes with letter names for you. This piece is made of two little phrases that each repeat. You can listen and play along here.  Giving the half notes (the hollow ones) 2 counts is very important. Count while you are playing.

LH of Team Fortress 2 Theme – this piece is 8 bars that repeat. I have written out the LH groove. It is all 8th notes, so there will be 8 notes per measure. The first two bars repeat 3 times, and the last two measures are different. Practice it slow and steady by itself. We will add the RH in next week.

C Major scale – great work! Keep practicing hands seperate. As a bonus, challenge yourself to learn the G major scale. The fingering is identical, but it starts on G and has one black key = F#. The notes are G A B C D E F# G. RH is still 123 12345. LH is still 54321 321.

C, F and G chords – great job playing these solid! Experiment with playing the notes one at a time in different patterns now. A good starting point is bottom, middle, top, middle.

Shakira

Good King Wenceslas – your reading is improving so much! The LH notes in this piece are F, and a C power chord. MF means mezzo-forte/medium loud, P means piano/quiet, F means forte/loud. This piece will sound like a melody, and then an echo of it. Try to bring the paper back next week, and we’ll play the duet.

C Major scale – both hands, seperate – great work! RH is 123 12345, LH is 54321 321.

*New* Keep Doing What You’re Doing by Bryson Tiller – I wrote out the intro and then the chords as well. It is learnt from this video, which you can reference as well. These are super lush, awesome jazz chords. They have lots of notes, but that’s why they sound so great. The reward is definitely worth the hard work!

Jadon

Gravity Falls – sounding good! Try isolating the parts where the hands play together to get the walking up bassline.

Dozen a Day exercises as seen below as warmups:

Hi everyone! Hope you had awesome weeks!

Hakim

Bingo and Yankee Doodle – both these pieces are in Middle C position where the thumbs share middle C.

Soldier of Dance – I wrote out the “chorus” of this piece for you on staff paper. I wrote the letter names on the staff so you can use directional reading.

C major scale – hands separate. This uses the standard scale fingering 12312345 in the RH. LH uses also standard fingering of 54321321. Descending is the same but in reverse.

C F G triads. This is a super common chord progression called I-IV-V-IV. It’s called that because it uses notes from a major scale to build triads on the first note, fourth note, and fifth note. Practice playing these solid chords with both hands. Listen to the song “Louie Louie” to get real world inspiration of how this might be used.

Maria

Etude in D Major – Hands Together 16 bars!Practice in small chunks. The LH reuses a lot of its chords, and changes if they’re solid or broken. Noticing this will make it come easier because it will be familiar.

Arctic Voices – 4 lines. The middle of the 3rd line will need spot practice (the only non-5ths) to get the fingering correct so those notes can be legato.

Witches and Wizards OR Tattoo (with quarter notes as the bass line) – as much as you can, have fun!

Shakira

Bloom – Keep your hand in C position (one finger per white key) and you will begin to build muscle memory. I wrote the finger numbers above some specific notes. Thumb is 1, pinky is 5.

C major scale RH. This uses a standard scale fingering that goes 123 12345. This means you’ll be tucking your thumb under your hand and putting it on F, and then immediately realigning your hand. Go slow and steady.

Noreet

C major scale RH – this uses the standard scale fingering of 12312345. Your thumb will tuck under and land on F, then you can use all your fingers to play up to C.

Classical Dance – this piece is in 3/4, like a waltz. Count 1-2-3. This piece combines smooth legato notes (curved line) and detached staccato notes (dots underneath), pay attention to which is which. You also noticed that their are different dynamics to play when it repeats! Nice eye!

First line of Young Hunter – New note alert! Treble A. This piece the RH plays A with finger 4, and LH thumb is on middle C. There are lots of details in this line. Where I drew these orange lines, you will break the sound (detach the notes from each other). The notes that are connected by curved lines should have no hole between them, imagine someone singing them both in one breath.

Practice tips: Playing through all of this would take between 5-10 minutes, which is a perfect daily practice goal! Warmup with your C scale 3 times with correct fingering, then play each line of Classical Dance 3 times, then play the Young Hunter line 3 times correctly and you’re done!