June 19, 2025 (Lesson 9 of 10)

Lesson Assignments

❤️ = Priority!

💜 = We didn’t get to it at the last lesson.

💛 = On the right track but needs more focus.

💚 = On the right track - good work!

🖤 = Don’t practice this - on hold.

Lesson Assignments

Lesson Progress:

Please have Aria read the blog out loud before each assignment. So, before she practices Celebrate Piano, please read the entire assignment out loud, and every day. I’d like her to start developing accountability for the assignments in the blog.

  1. June 19, 2025: 💚

  2. June 21, 2025:

April 27, 2025: Final Recital

❤️❤️PRACTICE JOURNAL

  1. Please record your practice in your practice journal at least five times per week

  2. Record the practice item and time spent

1💚Celebrate Piano: Lesson & Musicianship 1A

  1. 🎥Prepare pages 30 and 31. See the practice video as well.

2💚Sleigh Bells by Christine Donkin (Prep A)

  1. 🎥Follow the new practice video with four steps (5 times per week).

3💚Reading Exercises for Solfege:

  1. No. 2 on page 10 (“No.” = Number)

    1. Turn on metronome to 60.

    2. Count four beats, then SAY only (don’t play) each letter name out loud.

    3. Look at the music and keep a steady beat with the metronome.

    4. Play and say the notes (no metronome - don’t worry about a steady beat) once a day after you do the above items.

  2. No. 3 on page 10

    1. No metronome at first. Practice saying the letter names.

    2. Remember that the landmark in the bass clef is line four which is F below middle C.

    3. As you get better, add the metronome until you get to m.m. 60 per note!

    4. Play and say the notes (no metronome - don’t worry about a steady beat) once a day after you do the above items.

4💚Basic Rhythmic Training

  1. No. 3 on page 7

    1. Turn on the metronome to 72.

    2. Count four beats before you begin .

    3. Clap the beat (with the metronome), and “ta'“ the rhythm.

    4. If you make a mistake, keep going in order to stick with the metronome.

    5. Notice where the mistake was and fix it in your mind first, before you try again,

    6. Three chances to pass off at the lesson with a steady beat.

🖤Celebrate Theory: Prep

  1. Pick up with Dustin after we get started with Solfege.

  2. We left off around treble and bass clefs.

🖤Solos 1

  1. Please watch the vide

🖤Flash Cards

  1. We will play the step up/down and skip up/down game next week.