April 5 Lesson Notes

Reminder: No lesson next week, April 12 during the break. Next lesson on April 19. Happy Easter!

C-major scale
– try to play more relaxed and lighter
– check your hand form – keep your fingers curved
– practice 2 octaves Hands Separately – check your fingering for the second octave
– practice 1 octave Hands Together

C-major triad
– nice work!
– solid – try lifting up your hands in between each inversion
– broken – play lighter and check fingering

A Thousand Years
– check rhythm in bar 27  and 28 – count and make sure the notes are played on the correct beat
– also check rhythm in bar 79-80, 91-92

Better Place
– work on the chords
– it starts the same as Canon – C – G and Am7
C = CEG
G = GBD
F = FAC
Am = ACE
E = EG#B
Dm = DFA
Em = EGB

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