Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Oliver - Order the next book (level 1B) ASAP! - Halloween! & Horse Sense: staccato & legato playing Alyssa - Technique: try to use the correct fingerings please! no "mumbling" around the notes metronome at 92: D+, A+, Bb+, Eb+, g & c harmonic/melodic minor b harmonic/melodic - fix fingerings! c harmonic formula chromatic [...]
Osten - French Lullaby: practice slowly with metronome on "quarter note = 60" - Sonatina: same as last week, watch for wrong notes in the right hand Sadie - Pg.28 left hand exercise & pg 30 right hand exercise - When playing, stand on the finger tips and keep the wrist down, pretend that you're holding a bubble in [...]
Osten - French Lullaby: hands together - Sonatina: hands together for A section, hands separate for B section; legato playing in the L.H Sadie - "Marry had a Little Lamb" using the 3 black keys in both hands using fingers 2, 3, and 4 Maria - Jingle Bells: practice slowly, work more on the last 4 bars - [...]
Oliver - Bring Alfred's Basic Piano Library 1A for next lesson
Osten - French Lullaby: first 2 lines hands together, last line hands separate - Sonatina: first page hands together, second page hands separate Sadie - Get Alfred's Basic Piano Library lesson book: level 1A Maria - Jingle Bells: practice more on bar 5-8, and bar 13-16 Branagh - Techniques: D formula; all major & harmonic minor, and [...]
Oliver - Review lesson materials - Get Alfred's Basic Piano Library (level 1A) lesson book Alyssa - Techniques: practice everything with metronome and correct fingerings - List A: Rigadoon in A - let go of fingers at the end of slurs for phrasing; do not hold the last quarter notes in bar 9, 10, 15, and 16; watch for rests [...]
Osten - French song: hands together - Sonatina: hands separate (left hand legato) Maria - Jingle Bells: hands together Branagh - Techniques: all major scales, all harmonic minor scales, b melodic minor, D+ formula, chromatic, D+ triads solid & broken with correct fingers - Polonaise in G: practice with metronome (eighth note = 60-64) - Sonatina in A: [...]
Alyssa Exam preparation: - Review all techniques with correct fingerings, and start playing with metronome - List A: Rigadoon in A Minor - short slurs phrasing - List B: Sonatina in G OR Sonatina in F - choose one for the exam - List C: Reflections - review - Etudes: Masquerade AND The Somersault King - review Emet - The [...]
Tanishq Tanishq should practice his repertoires (March) at a slow tempo with metronome, hands separate and together.