September 29 Lesson Notes

Sight Reading
– nice work!
– try to add louds and softs
– be careful for skips in your Left Hand
– after playing through once, continue to repeat the exercise until you can play through while using correct notes and without pausing
– work on page 2 (Exercises 6-9)

Party Cat
– nice work! – done
– make sure to check which notes the Left Hand plays

Aloft
– nice work! – done
– be careful with fingering numbers – guitar fingering versus piano fingering

Songs
– continue to work forwards
– try to memorize songs
– check your hand position
– add pedal to songs that would seem appropriate

C-major scale
– nice work!
– try to practice 2 octaves, Hands Separately
Right Hand fingering
1-2-3-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-1-2-3-4-5
Left Hand fingering
5-4-3-2-1-3-2-1-4-3-2-1-3-2-1
– try to play on your fingertips
– be careful – don’t drop your wrist as you play

C-major triads
Solid – try to to play in 2 beats
Beat 1 – set your fingers in place
Beat 2 – play

Chord progression exercise – Cmin – Ebmin
– awesome work!
– try using sustained chords and broken triads
– play around with Left Hand rhythms
– use your ear and try to find other chords that might sound nice together