Happy March everyone! Liam Great work on Star Wars! Keep playing it for funsies, only if you wish. You've made a great effort the past 2 weeks with it :) This week you're working on On Top of Old Smokey in the Lesson book and Dark Eyes in the Performance book. For Smokey, keep using the little rainbow/half circle motion for the LH accompaniment pattern. [...]
Enjoy the snow everyone! And stay safe out there <3 I appreciate everyone's hard work. Jadon Lead sheets - Eerie Canal and Happy Birthday. Explore using the voicings of the chords where your LH moves as minimal as possible, while playing the melody with the RH. Experiment with different accompaniment rhythms, groups of notes. Avatar - Begin from where we circled. Work out how [...]
Happy snow day! Have fun and stay safe out there <3 Liam Star Wars - Awesome progress! Wow! Points to remember are: bring the accented notes out more, play the B section a bit more mellow and smoother to give contrast, keep working on the pedal, for the final LH repeated notes experiment with using multiple fingers to play them fast [...]
Happy long weekend everyone! Enjoy and thanks for your hard work <3 Isabella Yankee Doodle. Good reading today! Keep your eyes on the page and keep making those connections of how the notes look on the page to how they feel on the keyboard. Make sure the notes in the intro get the correct amount of beats (half notes, the [...]
Enjoy the long weekend everybody :) Liam Eb Major scale. Fingering: RH 312 3412 3. LH 321 4321 3 Star Wars. Be sure the LH is not so loud it drowns out the melody. Use the written RH fingering we worked on. Have fun with however much you have time to work on this week! Prelude in A minor. Awesome job [...]
Happy weekend everyone! Enjoy Valentine's Day this coming week :) I appreciate all your hard work. Jadon Saints, use any LH rhythms you want using the written chords while playing the RH melody. Avatar, love the blocked chord practice you’re doing! Also love the one beat over and over slowly tactic we used in class. Keep using these strategies throughout [...]
Hi everyone! Hope you have an amazing Valentine's Day next week! <3 Liam March. This piece includes a dotted quarter note. It is worth 1 and a half beats. Count 1 2, the play the next note on the "and of 2". The pop chords above and the Roman numerals I wrote below tell you when to change LH chords. [...]
Happy February everyone! Happy to see you all :) Stay warm out there. Isabella *New Piece* Allegro. This piece is almost entirely skips, except for the phrase endings. First 8 bars RH of Let It Go. Play with proper fingering, use your thumbs! This piece has F#s in its key signature (new concept), so whenever you see an F in the [...]
Hi everyone! Happy February :) Liam *New Piece* Major-Minor Bop. Ensure you play very staccato, but not with a tense arm. The RH will be finger staccato which feels like scratching a spot of the keys, or your fingers runnin gon a treadmill. The LH will be doing wrist staccato which involves strong finger joints, and a fluid wrist like when [...]
Hey everyone! So, so sorry to have missed you today. I have a gnarly stomach bug :( Happy practicing though, have a great week! I'm off to sleep more now. Isabella If you still have the folder I gave your for Christmas handy, try and learn Pop Goes the Weasel on your own! I believe you can do it :) Jadon [...]