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.