Glad to hear you all had safe and fun Halloween nights! Hakim My City and Largo - these pieces are your note reading practice for the week. Your RH thumb should be on middle C when playing these pieces, and your RH finger 5 (pinky) on G. Resist the urge to cross your index finger over your thumb! C Major Scale [...]
Hi everyone! Glad to hear you all had a safe and fun Halloween :) Grace Sonatine Bureaucratique - m17-18 use finger 2 on the B whole note and finger 1 on the D# whole note for legato. Same thing when it appears in the recapitulation. Do more hands separate practice. Liam Sonatina by Clementi - nice work! This week we will [...]
Hakim My Invention - this teaches our landmark notes = bass F, middle C and treble G. Use the corner of your thumb when playing. The thumb is like a really important beam holding up a deck (the rest of your hand) and it needs to be strong to keep your nice piano hand posture from collapsing. Maria Etude in [...]
Liam Formula Pattern in G Major Sonatina by Clementi - hands together practice for the week. Be very precise with what is legato and what is not. Look for sequences and for recognizable scales. Jadon Slam Dunk - really good reading! Keep increasing the tempo if you find consistent success hands together. Katarina Today we filled out your worksheet about [...]
What a great day seeing you lovely people! Have an awesome week :) Maria Etude in D minor - practice playing one measure at a faster steady tempo and landing on the next measures new position and stopping there (right on beat 1). The goal is to build fluency connecting the measures together. Once you can transition between two measures [...]
Hi everyone! Another awesome week thanks to you all <3 Grace Sonatine Bureaucratique 1st page - Hands separate be very picky with articulations. This is a parody of Clementi's Op36 no 1. Listen for the individual voices and ensure each phrase is fully fleshed out. A proper fingering plan is mandatory; mark in your chosen fingering on the iPad or [...]
Maria Home Run - opening line fix 1st and 3rd bar rhythm, the E with the accent should be the longest note creating a short-long-short rhythm. In lines 3 and 4, fix the syncopation. Your LH will always play on the strong beats (1 and 3), while your RH often plays on the "and of 2" so just before beat [...]
Hope everyone's Thanksgivings were amazing! Thanks for the hard work <3 Liam Fur Elise (Lesson) - Count carefully and keep your eyes on the page because you already know how to play pieces of this, we want to make sure we are as accurate to this arrangement and details on the page as we can. Rainbow Rock OR Tijuana Trolley (Performance) [...]
Happy October everyone! Hope you all have the best Thanksgiving weekends, regardless of what you get up to :) Grace Sonatina by Satie - when both voices go into one clef, use both hands. Usually, the down stems will be for the LH in this situation. The first page is a good goal for this week. Chopin Prelude and To a Wild [...]
Hello everyone! Nice to see you all on this Orange Shirt Day. Noreet Sailing in the Sun - measures 1-8. This piece uses the new skill you learnt = legato (smooth, connected) playing. Notice the rests on some beat 1s. Make sure when you're playing your smooth notes that you let go of them once another key has been played (just [...]