2026-2027 Events
October 17-18, 2026 — Group Classes
December 5-6, 2026 — Group Classes
January 24, 2027 — Performance Class & Guest Artist Workshop
February 27-28, 2027 — Group Classes
April 10-11, 2027 — Group Classes
May 22, 2027 — Student Final Recital
How to Practice
Use the Practice Tools panel below. It writes down your practice for you — you don't need to post it in the comments.
Press Start here. It picks up where you stopped last time.
Read the assignment, press Start, practice.
Tap what kind of practice it was — learning, spotting, memorizing, polishing, run-through or review — then press Done.
Press Next practice item and go again.
30 minutes a day. Start at the top of this list and work down. If you stop partway, start there the next day.
Capped items count down and chime. Keep going if it's going well.
Got something to say about an assignment? Paste the line it gives you into the comments and add your note.
Also in the panel: a metronome, a spotting counter, and recording.
Log only what you actually did, on the day you did it. Five minutes is a real entry. Logging starts October 1.
🟩 keep going · 🟨 extra attention · 🟪 we'll start it next time · ⬛️ don't practice yet
[PRACTICE TOOLS]
Theory
1. ⬛️ Theory Unit 7: Triads
Don't practice this yet.
Musicianship
2. 🟩 Sight Reading (Newzik)
Pages 2, 3 and 4. Do one page in one practice session until finished.
Study first: notes, fingering, position, expression, rhythm. Then play.
No mistakes before you move on. Then check it off.
3. 🟩 Busy Bee Toccata — Celebrate Piano! L&M, Unit 4, page 45
Say the note names out loud. Right hand finger 2, left hand fingers 2 and 3.
Forte. Play the slurs legato — smooth and connected.
🎥 Video — Make it sound like this. https://youtu.be/e2OeTIhRrLU
4. 🟪 Flash Card Video — Treble Clef
5 to 10 minutes. Say the note and play it.
Don't go to the next drill until you get every card right before the video shows you.
🎥 Flash Card Video — Treble Clef https://youtu.be/ClxsPTfBH5A
Video sections:
DRILL 1: Landmarks — be fluent before you move on.
DRILL 2: Landmarks with neighboring notes — do the second round, without hints, several times until it's fluent.
DRILL 3: Notes further away from the landmarks.
DRILL 4: All mixed.
DRILL 5: All mixed, faster.
DRILL 6: All mixed, even faster.
5. 🟪 Flash Card Video — Bass Clef
Same. 5 to 10 minutes.
🎥 Flash Card Video — Bass Clef https://youtu.be/TCL1EjHcLQQ
Video sections:
DRILL 1: Landmarks — be fluent before you move on.
DRILL 2: Landmarks with neighboring notes — do the second round, without hints, several times until it's fluent.
DRILL 3: Notes further away from the landmarks.
DRILL 4: All mixed.
DRILL 5: All mixed, faster.
DRILL 6: All mixed, even faster.
6. 🟪 Flash Card Video — Treble & Bass
Only after the first two are easy.
🎥 Flash Card Video — Treble & Bass Clefs https://youtu.be/bPHgfe9bZ6Q
Video sections:
DRILL 1: Landmarks — be fluent before you move on.
DRILL 2: Landmarks with neighboring notes — do the second round, without hints, several times until it's fluent.
DRILL 3: Notes further away from the landmarks.
DRILL 4: All mixed.
DRILL 5: All mixed, faster.
DRILL 6: All mixed, even faster.
7. ⬛️ RCM Online Ear Training
Don't practice this yet.
8. ⬛️ Rhythm: Basic Rhythmic Training (Newzik)
Don't practice this yet.
Repertoire
9. 🟩 New Shoes by Linda Niamath (L. B)
Watch the study video with your dad, Kavi. Bring me your questions.
🎥 New Shoes — study video https://www.videoask.com/faepo9j8m
Remember: key of F major, so every B is flat.
10. 🟪 Alphabet Soup — Celebrate Piano! Solos 1, page 9
We'll start this next lesson.
Goals This Year
Finish your piece before you get off the bench or look at the audience.
Loud and soft — make a difference.
Speak loudly. Hold still while you speak. Eyes on one or two spots.
Review List
Preparatory A
💚 The Haunted Mouse (List A)
💚 The Juggler (Nancy and Randall Faber) (List A)