Lesson Notes

November 4, 2022

November 4 Lesson Notes

Reminder: No lesson next week for the holiday. Next lesson on November 18 Work on note naming https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/note – treble clef – from middle C to […]
November 3, 2022

November 3 Lesson Notes

Scales – C+,G+,a-,e- – nice work on C-major – practice G-major all staccato – correct fingering for a-minor – work on playing e-minor smoothly and evenly […]
November 3, 2022

November 3 Lesson Notes

Try out the different versions of Jingle Bells – Lead Sheet (only Right Hand is written) > watch out for note skips > sing one octave […]
October 29, 2022

October 27 Lesson Notes

Avengers – awesome work! – try to bring out the accents more – keep your arms/wrists relaxed to play the unaccented notes faster – start working […]
October 28, 2022

October 28 Lesson Notes

I’ll Build a Bridge – nice work! – done London Bridge – nice improvement! – done Practice Page 38 – nice work! – done New Position […]
October 27, 2022

October 27 Lesson Notes

The Two Parrots (CC pg13) – learn the notes and work on confidence – try to play with a steady rhythm – use correct fingering – […]
October 26, 2022

October 26 Lesson Notes

a-blues scale – awesome work! – also practice with a swing rhythm (long-short) – practice Hands Separately for 2 octaves > in general, try not to […]
October 26, 2022

October 26 Lesson Notes

You Say (4-page version) – awesome work!!! – remember to move your hands up in bar 5 – restore the intro to what you were playing […]
October 26, 2022

October 26 Lesson Notes

Scales – nice work! – work on Gb-major – add: Ab-major Ab-Bb-C-Db-Eb-F-G-Ab Eb-major Eb-F-G-Ab-Bb-C-D-Eb Bb-major Bb-C-D-Eb-F-G-A-Bb F-major F-G-A-Bb-C-D-E-F Minuet in G major – nice improvement on […]