October 2, 2026 (45 min · in-person)

October 3, 2026 Dustin Gledhill

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 logs your practice for you, no comments needed.

Press Start here. It picks up where you stopped last time.
Read the assignment, press Start, practice.
When you are finished, press Done.
Press Next practice item and go again.

Try for five days a week. Fifteen minutes is plenty.

Log only what you really did, on the day you did it.

Log every practice session from today. Official tracking starts Monday, October 19, the Monday after our first group class. 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]

Piano Rules

Don't speak when someone else is speaking. That means me too.
Don't play the keyboard when someone is speaking. That means me too.

Start Here

1. 🟩 Practice setup

THIS WEEK: Look at the photo and set your practice up the same way.

Practice type: Learning.

[INSERT PRACTICE SETUP PHOTO IMAGE]

This is the photo I took on your iPad at the lesson.
Press Done for the Week once you have looked at it.

Theory

2. 🟨 Celebrate Theory, Preparatory Level, Unit 1 (RCM), page 9

THIS WEEK: Be able to teach me about the staff with no hints.

Practice type: Learning.

Five lines and four spaces, counted from the bottom.
Notes go up and down, on lines and in spaces.
Yellow means you are doing fine and this just needs a little extra work.
Every day until you can say it without looking.

3. 🟩 Spooky Lane, page 5

THIS WEEK: Complete page 5.

Practice type: Learning.

Play every C, starting at the top and going down.
Color in a pumpkin each time you finish one.
Press Done for the Week when page 5 is done.

4. 🟩 Spooky Lane, page 6

THIS WEEK: Complete page 6.

Practice type: Learning.

Count the bat caves and the three-tower castles.
Color in a pumpkin each time you finish one.
Press Done for the Week when page 6 is done.

5. 🟩 Spooky Lane, page 7

THIS WEEK: Complete page 7.

Practice type: Learning.

Find a bat cave on your piano and play Candy C, Dangle D and Eek E.
You said you would draw them under their keys later. Do that here.
Color in a pumpkin each time you finish one.
Press Done for the Week when page 7 is done.

Musicianship

6. 🟩 Basic Rhythmic Training (Starer), No. 5, memorize

THIS WEEK: Memorize No. 5 on page 9. Follow the video for how.

Practice type: Memorizing.

Watch the overview first, then the one about memorizing each brick.
Zoom in on a small piece. Clap and ta it with the book, then close the book and do it from memory.
Then pick another small piece and do the same.
Once both pieces are comfortable, put them together. That is brick building, and we will use it on your pieces too.
Clap on the final bar line as well.
This may take the whole week. Every day.

🎥 Brick memorization, overview https://youtu.be/KRyj97ADLSQ

🎥 Brick memorization, memorizing each brick https://youtu.be/Zp9MP81FpjY

7. 🟩 Notespeller, Book 1, page 3

THIS WEEK: Complete page 3.

Practice type: Learning.

You can do this one on your own.
Press Done for the Week when page 3 is done.

8. 🟩 Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (McDonough), read to page 31

THIS WEEK: Read up to page 31.

Practice type: Learning.

Take turns reading it out loud.
Press Done for the Week when you reach page 31.

Repertoire

9. 🟩 Piano Lessons, Book 1, page 6, finger numbers

THIS WEEK: Finish page 6.

High, middle and low two-sets of black keys, with round fingers.
Press Done for the Week when page 6 is done.

10. 🟨 Piano Lessons, Book 1, pages 8-9, student part

THIS WEEK: Watch the whole video, then learn the notes well enough to play it with me.

Piano seat belt first, and scoot back on the bench.
Up-stem notes are the right hand. Down-stem notes are the left hand.
We start with the left hand and we end on the left hand.
Know which group of black keys each part belongs to.
We need this really well, because next time I play the other part while you play this one.

🎥 Pages 8-9, student part https://youtu.be/YTX2YLW6Cno

11. 🟨 Piano Lessons, Book 1, pages 8-9, teacher part

THIS WEEK: Play along with the video, three times each practice session.

Learn it first with the student video, then play with this one.

🎥 Pages 8-9, teacher part https://youtu.be/7yH5BND-zdw

Next Time

12. 🟧 Your Halloween packet about the staff

I'm bringing it.

13. 🟧 Your Halloween packet about steps and skips

I'm bringing it.

September 25, 2026 (45 min · in-person)

September 25, 2026 Dustin Gledhill

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 logs your practice for you — no comments needed.

Press Start here. It picks up where you stopped last time.
Read the assignment, press Start, practice.
Tap the kind of practice, then press Done.
Press Next practice item and go again.

Try for five days a week. Fifteen minutes is plenty.

Log only what you really did, on the day you did it.

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]

Piano Rules

Don't speak when someone else is speaking. That means me too.
Don't play the keyboard when someone is speaking. That means me too.

Theory

1. 🟩 Celebrate Theory, Preparatory Level, Unit 1 (RCM), pages 4-11

THIS WEEK: Read the instructions and do pages 4 through 11.

⏱ Max 5 minutes per practice session.

Press Done for the Week when pages 4 to 11 are finished.

Musicianship

2. 🟩 Basic Rhythmic Training (Starer), No. 5

THIS WEEK: Pass off No. 5. Three correct in a row, or five correct in total.

NFPER focus: rhythm.

Set the beat to m.m. 72 and press play.
Go to NFPER Method and press Rhythm.
Clap four beats with the beat first. Then start.
Don't stop for a mistake. Go all the way to the end.
Three correct in a row, or five correct in total, and you are done for the day.
Same spot wrong three times? Zoom in on just that spot, fix it, then zoom back out.

3. 🟩 Basic Rhythmic Training (Starer), No. 6

THIS WEEK: Pass off No. 6. Three correct in a row, or five correct in total.

NFPER focus: rhythm.

Set the beat to m.m. 72 and press play.
Go to NFPER Method and press Rhythm.
Clap four beats with the beat first. Then start.
Don't stop for a mistake. Go all the way to the end.
Three correct in a row, or five correct in total, and you are done for the day.
Same spot wrong three times? Zoom in on just that spot, fix it, then zoom back out.

4. 🟩 Basic Rhythmic Training (Starer), No. 7

THIS WEEK: Pass off No. 7. Three correct in a row, or five correct in total.

NFPER focus: rhythm.

Set the beat to m.m. 72 and press play.
Go to NFPER Method and press Rhythm.
Clap four beats with the beat first. Then start.
Don't stop for a mistake. Go all the way to the end.
Three correct in a row, or five correct in total, and you are done for the day.
Same spot wrong three times? Zoom in on just that spot, fix it, then zoom back out.

5. 🟩 Notespeller, Book 1, page 2

THIS WEEK: Read the instructions and finish page 2.

Write RH inside the right-hand gloves and LH inside the left-hand gloves.
Write the finger number on the clothespin above each finger. The thumb is 1.
Press Done for the Week when page 2 is done.

6. 🟪 Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (McDonough)

THIS WEEK: Keep reading from where you stopped.

Take turns reading it out loud.
Keep it in your binder.

Repertoire

7. 🟩 Piano Lessons, Book 1, page 4, Feel the Beat

THIS WEEK: Clap the beat with the video, once each practice session.

Read the instructions with your practice partner.
Three speeds: slow, medium, fast. Follow the video.

🎥 Feel the Beat, page 4 https://youtu.be/TY86qhJXd94

8. 🟩 Piano Lessons, Book 1, page 5

THIS WEEK: Watch the video and sing the melody, verse 1 and verse 2.

Get to know the melody and sing along with the video.
You can just play it instead if you would rather.

🎥 Page 5, sing with the melody https://youtu.be/_WWBbXI3p8I

9. 🟩 Piano Lessons, Book 1, page 6, finger numbers

THIS WEEK: Complete page 6.

Press Done for the Week when page 6 is done.

10. 🟩 Piano Lessons, Book 1, pages 8-9, student part

THIS WEEK: Learn the notes of Climbing Up and Climbing Down with the video.

Up-stem notes are the right hand. Down-stem notes are the left hand.
Right, left, right, left. Keep the wrist moving.
Climb up to the next set of black keys, then climb back down.

🎥 Pages 8-9, student part https://youtu.be/YTX2YLW6Cno

11. 🟩 Piano Lessons, Book 1, pages 8-9, teacher part

THIS WEEK: Play along with the video, three times each practice session.

Learn it first with the student video, then play with this one.

🎥 Pages 8-9, teacher part https://youtu.be/7yH5BND-zdw

September 18, 2026 (30 min · in-person)

September 19, 2026 Dustin Gledhill

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 logs your practice for you — no comments needed.

Press Start here. It picks up where you stopped last time.
Read the assignment, press Start, practice.
Tap the kind of practice, then press Done.
Press Next practice item and go again.

Try for five days a week. Fifteen minutes is plenty.

Log only what you really did, on the day you did it. 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]

Piano Rules

Don't speak when someone else is speaking. That means me too.
Don't play the keyboard when someone is speaking. That means me too.

Technique

1. 🟩 One Note Bubble

THIS WEEK: One note at a time. Right hand, then left hand.

You named this one. At the piano, one note at a time.

Sit up straight. Straight back.
Elbows a little in front of your tummy. Move the bench if they are too far or too close.
Make a bubble with your hand, like there is a bird underneath and you don't want it to fly away.
Wrist and elbow relaxed.

Right hand, then left hand.

🎥 One Note Bubble https://youtube.com/shorts/PKMOFohQxxs

Musicianship

2. 🟩 Basic Rhythmic Training (Starer)

THIS WEEK: Get through page 6.

The red book. Not at the piano.

Review pages 4 and 5.
Get through page 6.
Bonus: page 7, numbers 1, 2 and 3.

Tap and say it. Later we will clap and say it at the same time.

Alaya keeps this book in her folder. Share it.

3. 🟩 Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (McDonough)

THIS WEEK: Read pages 1 to 3.

Take turns reading it out loud.

Keep it in your binder.

Next Time

We start reading the keyboard — the black keys in groups of three and two.

4. 🟧 Your books

THIS WEEK: I am bringing your books.

Nothing for you to do on this one.