December 17 Lesson Notes

Reminder: No lessons for 2 weeks over winter break. Next lesson is on January 7.

C-major Scale
– nice work!
– practice 2 octaves, Hands Separately
– fingering
> Right Hand – 1-2-3-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-1-2-3-4-5
> Left Hand – 5-4-3-2-1-3-2-1-4-3-2-1-3-2-1

The Rollercoaster
– watch out for the rhythm changing from half notes to quarter notes
– good work, done!

Puddles
– learn the notes in your Right Hand – check the fingering (see the numbers over top of the notes)
– check the Left Hand notes in the second line

Pizza Day!
– be careful with the rhythm, make sure quarter notes aren’t played as eighth notes
– done!

Review the letter names up to the treble C
Practice from page 22 – 27

Continue to practice:
Jingle Bells and Away in a Manger
Note Naming
> middle C to treble G
> bass F to middle C
> bass C to bass F
https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/note

Sight Reading
– work on exercise 5 – 9
https://www.paulcook.co/resources/Piano%20Sight%20Reading%20Exercises%20for%20Beginners.pdf