Happy Easter everyone! Enjoy the weather and time with your family <3 Isabella *New* Octavius Octopus - this is a left hand only piece. Practice bouncing from C to C using your thumb and pinky. For the scale coming up, use a nice strong rounded finger 3 to play it. *New* First 4 bars of Copy Cat. This is a piece [...]
Enjoy the long weekend! Happy Easter <3 Liam *New* March of the Triplets - Triplets are when you make 3 notes fit into one beat equally. All 3 of the triplet notes should be exactly equal. Learn the LH part seperate first and be sure to play it lighter than the RH melody, or it will drown it out! (3 [...]
Happy April Fools! I had no pranks for you today, and neither did you all for me. I appreciate it haha! Isabella (pg 57) A Joke For You - new notes! Bass C and D. (pg 58) Football Game - both hands in C position for the first time! You now know bass C, D and E! Notice the direction [...]
Welcome to what is hopefully truly Spring! Enjoy the sunshine folks :) Liam *New* Royal Procession - Play the melody louder than the accompaniment. Think of what chord you are playing as you go, I've written most of them in. A nice round robust sound is ideal for these "royal" pieces so play deep into the keys. *New* Microjazz 1 - Work on however [...]
Welcome back !!! Thanks for your hard work over March break :) Sara When working on your technique this week (scales, triads etc.) focus on shaping them (start softly, crescendo to the top and then diminuendo on the way down). Record yourself for an objective view. Sunset at the Beach - Great rhythm fix. Get more explosive with your dynamics, tell [...]
Welcome back! Great to see you guys :) A reminder to online students to meet on FARPLAY, rather than Zoom moving forward. Contact Barnaby with any questions. Liam *New piece in Lesson book* Reveille. This piece uses the concept of triad inversions. C, G, A minor, and E are used in this piece. For the RH, pay attention to the articulation, [...]
Hope everyone's March break was awesome! Jadon Great sightreading today on The Swing. Please now read through the remaining phrases and practice it for next week. Focus on playing the RH louder than the LH. ***Download here*** Julian *New* The Queen's Royal Entrance. This piece uses D and C major triads. At the very end, an F major and E minor triad are also [...]
Happy March Break everyone! Enjoy it <3 Jadon The Swing - **DOWNLOAD BY CLICKING TITLE** This is your March Break reading practice. It's a beautiful piece, enjoy. Avatar - greattttt progress! Begin working on the beginning, in addition to the spot you're already tackling. The most important spots to practice are the beats before and after changing keys/positions. Work at a slow [...]
Enjoy your March break everyone! You work really hard and it shows <3 Liam *New* Minstrel Song. Be sure to play your Bbs when they occur. Again, balance to the RH melody. Dark Eyes. Work on playing the LH quieter, like a beautiful violin accompaniment to your RH melody. Try shaping "to" the dotted quarter note, as in make it the loudest, [...]
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 [...]