November 18, 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. Are You Sleeping? Piano Adventures Performance Book, p. 26

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    1. LEARN, TWO MEASURES AT A TIME:

      1. NOTES FIRST: say the names of the notes out loud first with your hands in your lap. Practice matching the notes with your flash cards. Careful to notice if the notes go UP or DOWN by STEP or SKIP.

      2. Now PLAY AND SAY with the correct finger numbers: 3 TIMES CORRECTLY

      3. Now do Expression and Position!

      4. Finally, RHYTHM. Play with a steady beat.

  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

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

  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