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
Welcome, Aynara!
This is your lesson page. Everything you practise is here. A grown-up can read it with you.
How to Practice
Use the Practice Tools panel below. It writes down your practice for you.
Press Start here.
Read the assignment. Press Start. Practise.
Tap what kind of practice it was. Press Done.
Press Next practice item.
15 to 20 minutes a day is plenty. Five days a week or more. A little every day beats a lot on one day.
The panel does the writing down. Use the comment box only to ask me something.
Logging starts October 1.
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[PRACTICE TOOLS]
Our Two Piano Rules
You made these up yourselves at the lesson.
Don't talk when someone else is talking. That means me too.
Don't play the keyboard when someone is talking. That means me too.
Technique
1. 🟩 One Note Bubble
You named this one.
Straight back.
Elbows just in front of your tummy. Too close or too far? Move the bench — one side at a time.
Piano seatbelt. Sit in the middle of the piano.
Pick up the bubble. Hold your hand like there's a bubble in it, or a baby bird. Keep it safe. Don't pop it.
Fingers round, like you're about to scratch something. Not with your nails.
Wrist low first. Then forward.
Play any black key in front of you. 10 times with your right hand. 10 times with your left hand. Use finger 2. Then try finger 3.
Keep your other fingers floppy and relaxed.
The biggest mistake is starting with your wrist up. Then it has nowhere to go. Start low.
🎥 Video of this one is coming — I recorded it at your lesson.
💬 Log it: One Note Bubble — type of practice — minutes.
Musicianship
2. 🟩 Basic Rhythmic Training — the Red Book
Review pages 4 and 5.
Get to page 6. At least page 6.
Bonus if you have time: page 7, numbers 1, 2 and 3.
The little notes with stems going down are the beat. Clap those. Steady, like a metronome.
The bigger notes with stems going up are the rhythm. Say "ta" for those.
One of you claps the beat, the other one "ta"s the rhythm. Take turns. A grown-up can clap with you.
The goal, later on: clap and "ta" at the same time, by yourself. Not yet.
You don't need the piano for this one.
🎥 Video coming for this one too.
💬 Log it: Basic Rhythmic Training — type of practice — minutes.
3. 🟩 The note story, and the finding game
Read the story in your folder — the one about the note family and little doggy D in his dog house.
Read it sitting at the piano. It makes more sense there.
Then play the game: find all the notes you read about on the keyboard.
Read it with a grown-up, or with each other.
💬 Log it: Note story — type of practice — minutes.
Reading
4. 🟩 Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Pages 1, 2 and 3. Just the first little chapter.
Read it together and take turns. Read out loud.
Keep the book in your binder.
Mozart wrote operas for singers, music for orchestras, and a great deal for the piano.
💬 Log it: Mozart book — type of practice — minutes.
What We Did at This Lesson
Looked inside the piano at the thousands of moving parts, and what the pedals do.
Listened with our eyes closed and worked out what changed.
Clapped rhythms back to each other. Your rhythm is a real strength. Hold on to that.
Learned to sit at the piano and play one note properly.
Made up our two piano rules.
What's Next
The black keys — the sets of three and the sets of two.
Your first assignment played from the page, if this week's practice goes well.
We'll start using the colours on your assignments.
Christmas pieces are coming. Halloween too, if you really focus.
One More Thing
Piano gets learned slowly and every day, not quickly and all at once. If you play slowly, follow what I show you, and practise most days, you will be able to play the big pieces one day. That is a promise.
If you forget how something goes, watch the video. If you're still stuck, type a question in the comments and I'll answer it.