February 17 Lesson Notes

C+ Scale
– nice work!
– practice Hands Together for 2 octaves

a-blues scale
– continue to practice Hands Together for 1 octave
– use swing rhythm for 2 octaves Hands Separately

New Scale – c-minor
– it uses the same fingering as C-major
C-D-Eb-F-G-Ab-B-C

Triads
– practice slowly and try to play with a steady rhythm

Canon Exercise
C-G-A-E-F-C-F-G
– Right Hand plays Triads (C-E-G)
– Left Hand Plays single notes
– try using different rhythms and patterns (eg. playing your Right Hand broken instead of solid)

Phantom of the Opera
– practice slowly and try to keep the rhythm steady with no pauses
– check the notes in bar 7
– bar 12 – check Left Hand note “E”
– bar 14 – remember the rest
> Left Hand plays by itself on the first beat and the Right Hand plays on the second beat
– bar 17 – 18 – check how many “A’s” your Left Hand plays
– try adding some pedal to the ending

Take a look at Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
https://musescore.com/user/14711876/scores/5576998

Continue to work on:
(same as last lesson)

Ear Note Find Exercise
(4 octaves – Low C to High C)

Note Naming
https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/note
– work on Treble clef (Middle C to Treble C)

Happy Birthday
(8/12 completed – C,G,C#,Bb,F,A,B,F#)
– continue to use your ear to find the notes of Happy Birthday starting on each note
– be careful not to “fish” for notes after you figure out the melody

Music of the Night
https://musescore.com/stratfordmusic/music-of-the-night-easy-piano-tutorial
– continue to work on adding Left Hand
> start with “G”
> write down the notes that you would like to use