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. Printing, theory units, sight-reading pages and Four Star sets 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.

If an assignment asks for a metronome or a recording, that tool is sitting right there inside the assignment. The others are in Practice Tools at the top.

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. Logging starts October 1.

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

[PRACTICE TOOLS]

Reading

1. 🟩 Bee and the Note Family

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

💬 Log it: Bee and the Note Family — type of practice — minutes.

Musicianship

2. 🟩 Musical Alphabet, Forward and Backward

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.

💬 Log it: Musical Alphabet — type of practice — minutes.

Remember

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