November 9 Lesson Notes

Just As I Am
– awesome improvement!
– practice starting from the pickup into bar 9
– drill section – start from bar 13 and stop on the first beat of bar 14
> repeat and aim for 10 clean times
– try adding more pedal
– add the louds and softs

Minuet in F Major
– practice counting out loud – 1&2&3&
– try to detach the quarter, half and dotted half notes
– bar 1 – make sure to play the Left Hand quarter note on the 3rd beat
– bar 4 – make sure to play “F” in your Left Hand

Boogie Woogie Left Hand pattern
– play in eighth notes using a swing rhythm
1.  play C-G two times
2. move to play C-A two times
3. repeat from 1, over and over again
– variation
> C-G twice, C-A twice, C-Bb twice, C-A twice

Try the Jingle Bells sheet

Continue to practice:
Scales
a-blues scale
Triads
Sight Reading