December 12 Lesson Notes

Eric

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Scales
– nice work on C-major
– practice G-major – play with a steady rhythm
– practice a-minor – Harmonic form
> a-b-c-d-e-f-g#-a

Triads – C-major
– work on note accuracy when playing down solid

12 Days of Christmas
https://musescore.com/user/6237686/scores/6183377
– practice line by line
1. Right Hand by itself
2. Right Hand by itself while singing/reading the lyrics
3. Left Hand by itself
4. Left Hand by itself while singing/reading the lyrics
5. Hands Together
– bar 2 and 3 – watch out for the note skip in your Right Hand
– bar 2- use your 3rd finger in your Right Hand on the last “C” (on the word “a”)
– use your 3rd finger in your Right Hand on “two”
– drill bar 3 – aim for 5 clean run throughs each practice
> focus on “partridge in”
– drill bar 17 and 18

Continue to practice:
Silent Night
https://musescore.com/baconandeggs/scores/1078446
Jingle Bells
Etude in C major
Ode to Joy (Duet)
https://musescore.com/user/4254271/scores/5083354

– Sight Reading
https://www.paulcook.co/resources/Grade%201%20Creeping%20Croc%20and%20I%20Like%20Bouncy%20Frogs.pdf
https://www.paulcook.co/resources/Four%20Grade%201%20Sight%20Reading%20Exercises%20%281%29.pdf
– C-major scale
– C-major triad
– C-pentatonic scale = C-D-E-G-A-C

Songs to delay practice until after Christmas:
– Morning Greeting
– Spring
https://musescore.com/user/34602227/scores/6088735
– Chariots of Fire – work on playing faster