September 25, 2026 (45 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 Tools panel below. It logs your practice for you — no comments needed.

  1. Press Start here. It picks up where you stopped last time.

  2. Read the assignment, press Start, practice.

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

  4. 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