December 5 Lesson Notes

Eric

Practice tracking: 0

Silent Night
https://musescore.com/baconandeggs/scores/1078446
– practice Hands Separately until each hand is easy to play with a steady rhythm

Jingle Bells

12 Days of Christmas
https://musescore.com/user/6237686/scores/6183377
– remember to play the F-sharp
– work on playing with no pauses
– practice the second page

Etude in C major
– drill bar 6 and 7
> prepare your Left Hand on the lower notes in bar 7
– work on playing bars 9 – 16 with a steady rhythm
> drill bar 15
– practice slowly to focus on the rhythm

Ode to Joy (Duet)
https://musescore.com/user/4254271/scores/5083354
– work on learning the whole song

Songs to delay practice until after Christmas:
– Morning Greeting
– Spring
https://musescore.com/user/34602227/scores/6088735
– Chariots of Fire – work on playing faster

Continue to practice:
– Sight Reading
https://www.paulcook.co/resources/Grade%201%20Creeping%20Croc%20and%20I%20Like%20Bouncy%20Frogs.pdf
https://www.paulcook.co/resources/Four%20Grade%201%20Sight%20Reading%20Exercises%20%281%29.pdf
– C-major scale
– C-major triad
– C-pentatonic scale = C-D-E-G-A-C