Today in MusIQ Club!

Sorry to be so late with the blogs this week, I’m thinking you are probably all as busy as I am so haven’t needed an extra notice about piano practicing, but I don’t want you to have an extra excuse!

We worked on Twinkle and Row, Row, Row your Boat in class, and we reviewed rhythms and rhythmic values of whole, half, quarter and eighth notes, and you also went through the exercises and lessons in Theory Thinker on the values of the rests and their symbols.

This week please:

1.  Review the symbols for the different rests.  Here is an activity sheet for whole, half and quarter rests which can help you with this, and here is one for eighth notes and rests.

2.  Spend some time playing the note placement games which you can find in the lower left corner on the Theory Thinker page.  If you click on the one for single staff, you can also select only spaces, or only lines, bass clef only or g clef only etc.  Start simple, (g clef, spaces only for example, there will be only 4 different options for notes: F, A, C or E) and once you get so you recognize and know where those notes are you can change or increase the options.  You can print out and use this sheet as a reference for the landmark notes if you wish.

3.  Keep practicing Row, Row, Row your Boat and Twinkle.  If you are confident with the notes, please try them with a metronome (not too fast, slow and steady wins the race!)  and then see if you can play them from memory.

4.  If you are feeling ambitious, you may print out and practice Pop Goes the Weasel (or find it in Piano Player).

See you next Monday

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