December 16 Lesson Notes

Note: No lessons for 2 weeks over winter break. Next lesson is on January 6.

Silent Night
– nice improvement on the Right Hand
– work on note confidence – try not to “fish” for notes (playing other notes before the correct ones)
– continue to add Left Hand
– for the extra ending, check your sheet

Hark the Herald Angels Sing
– nice work on trying the swing rhythm!
– remember the B-flat
– use your ear and find the rest of the notes, write them down on your sheet

Pick out by ear:
Angels We Have Heard on High
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (Phantom)

Try Music of the Night
https://musescore.com/stratfordmusic/music-of-the-night-easy-piano-tutorial
violin version
https://musescore.com/user/11556211/scores/3255316

Continue to practice:
Phantom of the Opera (same as last lesson)
– work on memory
– continue work on bar 12 and 13
– be sure of the notes in bar 6 (when you play D-G-D-E in your Right Hand)
– check Right Hand notes, try not to “fish” for notes
C+ Scale
a-blues scale
Triad
Heart and Soul
Note Naming – middle C to treble C
https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/note