Today in MusIQ Club!

Beginner Level 1B

Today Rebecca and Colby did lesson 20 with Mar, where they learned more about “grown-up notes” with Miss Mendelssohn. Grown-up notes have stems on them and are either line notes or space notes. For now, the RH notes will have up stems and the LH notes will have down stems. Mar also taught you how to record your own songs and send them to the library, we you can go to play them back and listen to them later!

This Week @ Home

• Continue Love Somebody at home this week, so you can learn to play for your parents for Valentine’s Day!
• Here is worksheet to review what you have learned about Miss Mendelssohn!
• Have some fun at your piano making up your own music!
• If you have CMJ at home, you can review lesson 20 with Miss Melody and then head to Games room.

Level 2 and 3 – Katelin and Twesh

Katelin is sounding very good. Let It Be is coming along nicely, and this week she is goig to really focus on holding the held notes for their full value, and playing the eighth notes a bit faster. This may involve counting out loud while you play! We started a new piece called Her We Go In  a Row. Short but tricky, as it is all hands together. The coordination of this can be tricky but Katelin is picking it up very well. We reviewed whole tones, half tones (also called semitones) and sharps, and the G Major scale: G A B C D E F# G. Keep playing your note naming game on your computer, but no worksheet this week. Work on Let It Be, the finger exercise I showed you, and the G Major scale, adn Here We Go In a Row.

Twesh had a good lesson, too. The  Blue Danube is sounding much better, he is going to focus on the last few measures this week to tidy those up. This Old Man is coming along, too, today we got him preparing his left hand so that the song could keep moving forward, not stalling every time the triad changed. This week he’s going to try it in G Major. This week we went over primary triads (the I, IV and V triads which are the most important out of all the triads up the scale degrees). There is a worksheet for minor scales which I introduced today. Also finish the melody for what will be, I’m sure, a fantastic composition using the notes of the C Pentatonic scale. We’ll write a left hand accompaniment for it next week. Enjoy the long week-end!