September 21, 2026 (20 min · in-person)

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 Guide below. It logs your practice for you — no comments needed.

  1. Press Start from # whatever number it shows. It picks up where you stopped last time.

  2. Press Start, read the assignment, practice.

  3. Tap the kind of practice, then press Done.

  4. Press Next practice item and go again.

Capped items count down and chime. Keep going if it's going well.

Some assignments finish. Those carry a Done for the Week button. Press it when the job is done and the assignment comes off your list. Technique and repertoire don't have one; those are every day.

Need the metronome, a recorder or the NFPER colors? They are in Practice Tools, right under the practice types. Tap one and it opens inside your assignment. Tap Close to put it away.

Got something to say about an assignment? Paste the line it gives you into the comments and add your note.

Log only what you actually did, on the day you did it. Five minutes is a real entry.

Log every practice session from today. The competition starts October 1 — practicing and logging now is how we get the kinks out.

🟩 on track · 🟨 needs extra attention · 🟪 didn't get to it at the lesson · 🟥 priority · ⬛️ on hold, don't practice this one · 🟧 mine, not yours

[PRACTICE TOOLS]

Reading

1. 🟩 Bee and the Note Family

THIS WEEK: Find every Doggy D and play it one time. There are seven.

Do this every day.

  • Read the story. Start at Once upon a time. Stop at keys in the shade.

  • Find the doghouse. It is two black keys.

  • Doggy D sits in the middle of the doghouse.

  • Find every Doggy D and play it one time. There are seven.

🎥 How to find Doggy D https://youtube.com/shorts/1cZCGroRtk8

Musicianship

2. 🟩 Musical Alphabet, Forward and Backward

THIS WEEK: Play every white key going up and say the letter out loud.

Do this every day.

  • Start on the lowest white key. That one is A.

  • Play one key at a time, all the way up.

  • Say the letter out loud each time.

  • The musical alphabet is A B C D E F G. After G it starts over at A.

Remember

Your white binder goes back in the piano bench every time.