December 7 Lesson Notes

Scales
– work on playing lightly and gently

Minuet
– iron out the pause between bar 12 and 13
> drill from bar 9 and stop on the first beat of bar 13
> drill bar 13 and 14
– bar 14 – use your Left Hand’s 5th finger on the “G”
– drill bar 15 and 16

Jingle Bells (other idioms)
– continue to work on the first line Hands Separately
> try Hands Together if you have confidence in playing Hands Separately with no pauses
– start practicing the second page

Work on note naming for the bass clef:
https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/note

Continue to practice:
– C7 chord (dominant 7th)
> C-E-G-Bb
– G#dim chord (diminished 7th)
> G#-B-D-F
– Triads
– 12 bar blues
– Gnossienne 3