February 15 Lesson Notes

Reminder: No lesson next week, February 22 for the school break. Next lesson on March 1

Better Place – sheet
– awesome work!
– bar 8 – add two more C’s in your Left Hand to make 4
– add bar 13 – 16
> remember the count 2-2-4 for the number of times your Right Hand plays after your Left Hand

A Thousand Years
– nice improvement!
– check the rhythm for bar 55-56
– bar 58 – watch that the Left Hand plays first before the Right Hand

C-major scale
– nice work on Hands Separately for 1 octave!
– practice Hands Separately for 2 octaves – check fingering for the second octave

Canon
– nice work!
– try different note combinations:
1-3-5
1-5-3
3-1-5
3-5-1
5-3-1
5-1-3

Continue to practice:
– Triads
– Hedwig’s Theme
– a-blues scale
– Beauty and the Beast
– Phantom of the Opera
– All I Ask of You