Ken For our warmup this week, let's review the C major scale, hands separately. In the RH, fingering is 1-2-3-1-2-3-4-5 on the way up, and it's reverse on the way down. For LH, fingering is 5-4-3-2-1-3-2-1 on the way up, and again reverse on the way down. A Minuet for Mr. Bach's Children - Pay extra attention to which notes [...]
Happy Valentine's Day! Emet For your warmup this week, please play D major triads. The difference between these and your previous D minor triads is that F is now sharp. All fingerings should stay the same; just slide your hand further into the keys so it’s easier for thumb and finger 5 to reach the sharp. Piano Man – Let’s play up until bar 17 [...]
Dvorah For our scavenger hunt this week let's look for the letters D (inbetween the two black keys in the group of 2) and E (to the right of the two black keys in the group of two). Balloons - Please still practice this song this week to solidify your knowledge of where letters C-D-E are on the piano. Make [...]
Hello! I'm really enjoying hearing everyone's progress. Ken As a warmup, let's continue playing all our triads (so 3 notes in skips played all together) from C major all the way up the white keys until we get to C major again. As you do this, listen to whether the triad is major, minor, or the new word we learned [...]
Great work this week everyone! Emet Please play F major triads as you warmup this week - we have moved on from the D minor ones. When we play triads we start in root position and go all the way up to the next root position (so not only playing to second inversion). Play these hands separately and try solid [...]
Thanks for another great round of lessons this week everyone! Dvorah This week there is a new note to do the scavenger hunt for! The letter D comes right after C and can be found in the middle of the group of 2 black keys. Old MacDonald Had a Song - This song uses LH on a group of 2 [...]
Thanks for a great round of lessons today everyone! Ken This week as a warmup, play all the triads on the white keys - start on C major and move up in steps. As a bonus, listen and try to figure out if the triads are major or minor. Dinosaur Stomp - The LH rests are very important to the [...]
Emet This week we switched our triads from D minor to F major. The fingering is still the same, with RH using finger 2 in first inversion, and LH using finger 2 in second inversion. Hound Dog - On the second page LH's bassline pattern now has staccatos, in contrast to the first page where you play everything legato. This [...]
Hi everyone, here is what we worked on this week and your assigned practicing: Dvorah We will keep the G position warm up one hand at a time, and even though I know it's tricky please try to connect between the fingers. If your fingers are bent this becomes easier. We moved on to I Hear the Echo in your [...]
Nice to see everyone again this week, I'm hearing lots of progress already! Ken We had spoken with your mom today about getting the next book in the Piano Adventures series - so the Lesson Book level 2A. For the warmup this week, play around with the B position 5-note scale (this one's tricky!) and see if you can play [...]