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.
Press Start from # whatever number it shows. It picks up where you stopped last time.
Press Start, read the assignment, practice.
Tap the kind of practice, then press Done.
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, and 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]
Repertoire
1. 🟩 Lunar Eclipse (Nancy Faber and Randall Faber)
THIS WEEK: Learn it well enough to play it for me next lesson.
⏱ Max 10 minutes per practice session.
Watch the video first.
Once a day, ten minutes.
Piano Repertoire, Level 1, page 21.
This is the only thing on your list this week. Give it the ten minutes.
🎥 Lunar Eclipse https://youtube.com/shorts/kFUT9rOTZvk
The Ten Minute Cap
We picked this together. Try it for a week and tell me next lesson whether the cap helps or gets in the way.
If you like it, we keep going this way. If not, we try it the other way.
Where It's All Heading
Free write → pull out the words that matter → free write on each of those → build the chorus → find the hook → write the verses → then write the music.
Six free writes are done: Ice Cream, Flint Park, Backyard, Friends, School, Church. Step 3 is finished.
Next is the chorus, and we build that together next lesson. I have your pages.
Nothing to write this week. That is why the list is short.
2. 🟧 Plan next week's songwriting assignment from Oliver's photographed pages
THIS WEEK: I read the six free writes and build the chorus starters for next lesson.
Nothing for you to do on this one.
This Fall
Six or seven pieces like this one. Quick learns, about a week each.
Keep Your Papers
Blue papers go in your music binder. Back in the binder every time.