November 4, 2021

🟢 - on the right track, great work!

🟡 - on the right track but it needs more work

🔴 - needs lots of attention and work

⚫️ - no assignment - don’t practice this item.

🟣 - We didn’t get to this item,

Go to your Newzik App and find:

  1. Lesson Focus for Toby:

    • How did you do with coming to the piano and being respectful?

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  2. The Happy Stream: Piano Adventures Performance Primer Level pg. 25

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    1. NOTES: 2 to 4 measures at a time. Repeat as many times as possible!

      1. Say “down a skip, up a step, down a step” etc.

      2. Say the names of the notes OUT LOUD once every day.

      3. Play and say the names of the notes out loud. SLOW SLOW SLOW SLOW SLOW!

  3. Flash Cards

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    • See your new flash cards. They are all a step down or a step up from your landmark C cards.

    • Practice saying and playing the cards out loud.

  4. Air Wrist Master

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    • We need three lessons in-a-row with good “air wrists.” Then you will become an Air Wrist Master!

    • We need three green dots.

  5. THEORY PREP LEVEL

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    • PREPARE 00_02 “TREBLE STAFF” Pages 16 - 17, in your NEWZIK App!

    • WAIT to do page 18 with Dustin because we need to learn this in a special way.

  6. “SIGHTREADING 00 26-37”

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    • Prepare “Day 2 The Dance Band”

  7. REPERTOIRE REVIEW PIECES: Review once a week with your music.

    1. 🟢Dancing with Frankenstein in Piano Adventures Performance Book Primer Level pg 22

  8. ⚫️Ear Training

    • Play two notes and identify them. Then play one of the two and identify it.

  9. ⚫️Cookie Game.

    • Practice looking at the notes moving UP, DOWN OR REPEATING!

  10. ⚫️Beat Boss

    • Turn on the metronome

    • Practice playing quarter, half and and whole notes with the metronome.

  11. ⚫️Major Minor Mr. Monster. (And Beat boss)

    • Warm up practice