Always have your iPad ready to go when I come for your lesson 😎
Lesson Blog:
your assignment guide.
Newzik:
where assignments are found, indicated in your lesson blog.
Complete your assignments in the following order:
THEORY: Prep Level
Spooky Notes: Say and Play in random order Alien Notes (same thing)
Unit 5: (up to page 44) Be prepared to teach me about anything in the unit! Finish some of the assignments that are blank.
(hold on Unit 6 until Solfege complete)
💜Continue to practice the letter names and solfège syllables:
Choose 4 different starting points.
You can pause shortly between each one.
Practice bowing before and after
Smile, make eye contact with the audience (3 seconds)
Bow from the hip. 3 seconds.
Back up for 3 seconds. SMILE
“MUSICIANSHIP: Sight-Reading 00” in Newzik
Do Middle C March Day 2 and 3
Black Key Staccato Wrists “forward-poke”
Onc hand at a time, practice playing the 2 sets of black keys with fingers 2 and 3
Pick up the bubble from the bench
Make sure your fingers are round / curved
Drop your round hand onto the keys with a level wrist as if you’re going to poke the keys.
As soon as you poke the keys, pop your wrists up and bounce off the keys as if they were too hot to touch!
Do the same thing above but with the 3 sets, fingers 2, 3 and 4.
Now try it hands together!
Bunny Hops
Practice RH and LH back and forth. Focus on wrist popping instead of fingers.
Use the videos to finish learning part 2
Once a week, review the following piece:
The Spooky Song