Hi everyone! Stay safe in the slush tomorrow :) In person friends, I have a small piano gift for you next week for our final lesson of 2022! Fiona Flute of the Andes - We learnt about the perfect 4th interval in our last piece, and this song uses almost exclusively 4ths. This piece is also entirely Cs and Gs, [...]
Hi everyone! Thanks for your awesome practicing! <3 Keep it up :) Isabella You're working on D-E-F March and Mister Bluebird. These are both songs that just use your RH but...... could you play them with your LH? Yes! Give it a try and use proper hand position. Today we discovered that the QR codes on each page give you play [...]
Hello everyone! Your Christmas pieces are all sounding AWESOME! Proud of everyone <3 Fiona Jingle Bells. Sounding great! Make the "Jingle Bells" part more bouncy and light so it sounds like actual bells. Mixed Up Song. Good work reading this one. Be sure to keep your wrists in line with your forearms and don't let them sag down off the edge of [...]
Hi everyone! Happy December. I hope anyone who is opening an advent calendar is having fun; I sure am because I have a Nespresso one this year. <3 Thanks for everyone's effort practicing and keep it up! Isabella You’re working on My Invention. It uses all 3 Landmark Notes - bass F, middle C and treble G. Be sure to [...]
Happy 1st of December everyone! Hope everyone who participates in advent calendars had an exciting morning! I did, as I have a Nespresso one this year :) Fiona Your new piece is Mixed Up Rag and you're working on measures 1-8. This piece introduced the interval of a 4th. A 4th is where, including the first note, there are 4 note [...]
Hi everybody! Report cards went home today, or if you are a remote student yours was mailed earlier this week. Let us know if you have any questions:) Isabella I missed you today! Keep playing Driving in the G Clef, Best Friends, and your RH C Major one octave scale. Jadon You're working on O Holy Night from the beginning until [...]
Hello everyone! Any students I saw in person today, you have received your fall report cards. Online people (that are always online) you will receive your report card in the mail shortly - Julian I will give you yours next week when I see you. Let me know if you have any questions or comments :) Marco You’re focusing on [...]
Hello everyone! Winter is upon us :) stay safe and enjoy the snowy weather. Isabella You’re working on Driving in the G Clef. G clef is what people sometimes call the treble clef because it swirls around the G. This piece is all RH. You’re also working on Best Friends. This piece uses both hands. When two notes line up [...]
Hello everyone! Happy snow! Happy winter is here! Stay safe :) Fiona You're working on Kites in the Sky. This piece uses cascading C Major triads to sound really pretty. We move our LH up over our right to play the top notes so that everything can stay nice and legato and connected. Make it as beautiful as you can (since you [...]
Hello everyone! Thanks for your effort practicing this week :) Jadon You're working on the. first 16 bars of Amazing Grace. Play the RH louder than the LH, like your RH is the singer. For the Avengers theme, you can change the intro to have a more simplistic rhythm in the LH, simply changing the notes and holding them, as the RH plays the [...]