June 7, 2025 (Lesson 3)

Practice Priority:

1 ❤️= need lots of work, or, you didn’t practice this.

2 💛= on the right track, but this needs more work.

3 💜= we didn’t get to this. Please practice as usual.

4 💚= on the right track! Good work. Practice as usual.

5 🖤= don’t practice this. We’ll get to it when Dustin says.

Bubble Hand: 1

Gone from 12-15, leave 25th.

💚Piano Adventures, Sightreading Book

  1. Prepare pages 6-11 in the following way:

    1. First, clap the beat (always, even if there are half notes) and “ta” the rhythm.

    2. Second, count four steady beats out loud then play the notes with the correct fingering to a steady beat.

    3. NO FASTER THAN METRONOME 80 PER QUARTER NOTE.

    4. Keep the bubble.

💛Alphabet - Forward and Backward by Skips

  1. Set metronome to m.m. 100-144 and practice saying the letter names forward and backward by skips (or 3rds) beginning on any note.

💚Theory

  1. Study about the grand staff on pages 32 and 33

  2. Prepare pages 34-37. Please read the instructions carefully because it can be tricky at times.

  3. Prepare pages 38-41. Please be able to answer any questions about the material.

June 6, 2025 (Lesson 2)

Bubble Hand: 1

Gone from 12-15, leave 25th.

💚🎥Follow the video for your black-key assignment. (this should take you at least 10 minutes.

💜Alphabet - Forward and Backward in Steps and Skips

  1. Set metronome to m.m. 100-144 and practice saying the letter names forward and backward.

💛Theory

  1. The Treble Clef is also known as the G Clef because it unlocks the name of line two on the treble staff.

  2. Finish no. 1 on page 20

  3. Finish no. 1 on page 21

  4. Complete page 23. Memorize the symbols on page 23.

  5. Finish no. 1 on page 26

  6. Finish no. 3 on page 27

  7. Finish no. 1 on pages 28 and 29

  8. Memorize the symbols on page 31 and finish the questions below.

  9. Prepare pages 9-31.

  10. Do as much as you can. Don’t worry if you can’t get it all done.

June 3, 2025 (Lesson 1)

Gone from 12-15, leave 25th.

Note Speed with Metronome

  1. We started at m.m. (metronome marking) 80 and identified the names of the notes on the keyboard every two ticks.

  2. Then we increased to 92, 100, 108.

  3. When you make a mistake, let it go and keep going to the next note.

Two Set Black Keys: Right and Left Hand Position / Bubble Rising Wrists

  1. Watch your practice video and do this 5 times each day in each hand.

  2. Make sure, before you pick up the bubble, to have a straight back.

Frog Jumps - Two Black Keys

  1. First step: pick up the bubble

  2. THen “DROP” with a low wrist into one note, and then POP up with a raised wrist.

  3. Finger should be like “an animal with relaxed legs”

Alphabet - Forward and Backward in Steps and Skips

  1. Set metronome to m.m. 100-144 and practice saying the letter names forward and backward.

Theory

  1. Prepare pages 9-31.

  2. Do as much as you can. Don’t worry if you can’t get it all done.