May 27 Lesson Notes

C-major scale
– try to keep your hands relaxed as you play
– play on the keys gently – imagine you are playing on cotton balls
– try to maintain a relaxed hand position as you play

C-major Triad
– Right Hand – use your second finger on the E-G-C inversion
– Left Hand – use your second finger on the G-C-E inversion
– practice playing back and forth between each inversion 5 times
– broken – practice slowly in order to play from one inversion to the next without pausing

Book
Let’s Cha-Cha-Cha!
 – try to play the whole song at the same speed
– fix the eighth note rhythm in bar 8 and 16
– count out loud

Practice:
Mirror Image – work on the dotted quarter, eighth note rhythm
Forget Me Not – watch ties and slurs
Rock it Out! – new keyboard hand position – G-position

Missing You chords
C – C-E-G
F – F-A-C
Am – A-C-E

Dm – D-F-A
G – G-B-D
Em – E-G-B
Bb – Bb-D-F