Good work today everybody! Sorry to have missed a few of you today. Most of you will be finishing your level next week – congratulations. I’m sorry that I will not be around for that. Today was my last class with you, but I am sure you will enjoy next week and the next session [...]
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Good work today. I will certainly miss our lessons together, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy next term with your new teacher. (Registration is ongoing and you will receive an email with all the specifics.)
Level 1 (now level 2) – you were very calm, cool and collected through your assessment and did very well. Thanks for [...]
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Great work today on your last class of this session. You have all done very well and I will miss you all. I’m sure you will enjoy next term with your new teacher. Registration for next term is ongoing and you will all receive an email with specifics.
Level 1: The ladies completed lessons 22 and [...]
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Good work today everybody! It has been a pleasure teaching you (few classes as we have had together). This was the last class of this session and my last class with you. I am sure you will enjoy next term with your new teacher. (You have each received an email with details regarding re-registration for [...]
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It was nice to see you all back after the break. Great work today everybody.
Level 1A: You did a double lesson today with Mr. Bach. In lesson 9, you worked on notes getting higher and higher and lower and lower and then reinforced what you learned with a game of cliffhanger – great listening! Remember [...]
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Another good class! I’m glad you didn’t forget anything over the break.
We did some 4 note playbacks today to give you an extra challenge and you did a great job with them. Keep listening for whether the notes are getting higher or lower and if they are stepping or skipping down. Your scales are sounding [...]
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It was good to see everyone again after the break. Great work today.
Level 1B: You met a new teacher today in lesson 21 – Mr. Hector Villa Lobos. Do you remember where he came from? He was very proud of his country and he helped many people in his country learn more about their folk [...]
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It was good to see you all again after the break. Great work today. We did a lot of review as well as learning all about intervals, adding a new piece and practicing some of your other repertoire.
Good work playing interval “go fish”. Remember that intervals that are played at the same time (with the [...]
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Well we avoided a snow day and made it to MusIQ Club today – it was good to see you all again. We started out playing musical alphabet hot potato – great job singing the musical alphabet backwards to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. I think you’ll have a hard time forgetting the [...]
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It was very nice to see everyone again today. We missed you Petra – hope to see you next week. We had a guest in class today who was a great help – thank you Clare! Wonderful work everybody! You worked extremely hard today and got a lot accomplished.
Eric and Michael – you completed lesson [...]
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Another wonderful class everybody! You all worked so hard. We had Adele visit the class today and she was a great help – thank you!
Level 1A:
We started out the day by recognizing notes getting higher and higher and lower and lower on the flute. You also recognized that even though notes are getting lower and [...]
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Great work again today! We had plenty of fun too. We had another MusIQ Club teacher visiting today, so we were able to do a few more things together. Thank you for your help!
Your rhythm is getting steadier every week. On Top of Old Smokey and Pop Goes the Weasel are starting to really flow [...]
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Another great class everybody. We had a visitor in class today – another MusIQ Club teacher - and I would certainly like to thank her for all her help.
Level 1 worked on more grown up notes and learned how to recognize some other notes from your musical alphabet on the keyboard (some of you caught [...]
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We had a few technical difficulties during class today and a lot of excitement over March break soon coming, so we didn’t cover quite as much material as usual, but we still did some important review on note reading and spent a little more time than usual on your repertoire.
We reviewed the landmark notes on [...]
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Everybody made it through their lessons, practice and games today and most of you did a little improvising as well. Now we won’t meet again for two weeks, so try to practice at home – some improvising, some counting, working all your fingers, and of course listening to music. I am also attaching links to [...]
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What a great class today. You all worked so hard and I didn’t have to ask you to settle down once! You did extremely well at working through difficult parts of the lesson and worked on your practicing skills of repetition, counting, clapping the rhythm and paying close attention to the fingering to help you [...]
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Thank you all for your help setting up and putting things away today. We had a bit of a change of location for this week only. The lower tables and chairs allowed you to practice your good piano posture – sitting up straight at the edge of your seat, knees under the edge of the [...]
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What a full class we had today – lots of new theory and pieces. Good work!
Level 1:
You started with a review of Row Your Boat and Pop Goes the Weasel. You are reading the music very well. Keep paying attention to the rhythm (especially the rests) and don’t speed! We did some playbacks – great [...]
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Another very good, focussed class everyone! Thank you for your patience, as I resolved our little technical difficulty at the beginning of class.
Level 1B completed a very important lesson (#19) – your introduction to ‘grown up notes’ with Miss Mendelssohn and what a great job you did reading this new type of notation! Remember that [...]
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Wow, we are increasing our repertoire very quickly. Good work on getting through another new song today. Keep practicing the other songs that we have learned, so that we can play them together next week.
We reviewed 3/4 and 4/4 time signature and you each took a turn drumming out a few bars. Remember to accent [...]
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