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.