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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Excellent work today everybody! It still took us a little too long to settle down at the beginning of class, but once we did, you did some great work and all made it through your lessons, practice, games and improvisation. It was nice to listen to some of your compositions. I missed the absentees – [...]
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My goodness, it has been a long time since I’ve seen you and now we have to wait another week. I hope you all kept warm and safe on your “ice” day today. I am writing a quick blog to give you the links to some worksheets to complete at home and bring to class [...]
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It was so nice to see you all again after all those snow days. I’m glad you remembered everything you had learned. Good work today everybody! Level 1A did a review lesson (#5) with Mr. Beethoven and then went on to lesson 6, where you met a new teacher, Mr. Bach. Do you remember where [...]
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Another very productive class. Great work on the C position playbacks – you are really listening well. Your C major scale was also excellent – nice legato – and good playing in unison! Level 2 – you also did a good job of the C pentatonic scale and we figured it out descending too. We [...]
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Great work today everybody! You were extremely focussed on your lessons and many of you completed double lessons today. I saw some beautiful technique around the room – great ‘ant tunnels’ and all your fingers hard at work. When a tune isn’t working out and you know you are playing the correct finger, be sure [...]
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I hope everybody that wasn’t feeling too well today is feeling better soon, so that your fingers can get back into action and practicing the piano. Hopefully I’ll have my voice back by next week too, so that you can hear me a bit better. Level 1A completed lesson 8 with Mr. Bach on double [...]
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We had a bit of a slow start today, but got quite a lot accomplished nonetheless. Great game of Grand Staff Face-off! You’re starting to recognize your grand staff notes more quickly. Remember to use your landmark notes to think your way to neighbouring notes. You learned about 3/4 time signature. Remember – the top [...]
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Another very productive class. You are working very hard and I could hear that you practiced over the week. Level 1 – thank you for sharing all that information about Wagner – he was quite a composer. Your note reading is coming along well and your landmark notes are helping you to read more quickly. [...]
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You worked very hard today, many of you completing a double lesson. Keep it up – you are all doing a wonderful job! Level 1B worked on more musical steps (lesson 15) with Mr. Joplin and then met a new teacher – Miss Mendelssohn – to play some stepping songs in lesson 16. Remember that [...]
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Good work again today everybody. I hope those that were at home sick get better soon – we missed you. Thank you for bringing your composer facts to class to share with the others today. You did some true playbacks in C position today – great job! Keep listening very carefully – this is not [...]
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What a change from last week! Thank you all for working so hard and trying your best to stay calm and focused on our lessons. You all got a lot done and I am very proud of your work! We talked about some composers and some instruments over lunch. Do you remember how many children [...]
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It is always a pleasure to teach this class. You worked very hard again today. Do you remember what Piano and Forte mean and what language these words are from? You are doing well with your ear training with the 3 note playbacks. We worked together on the C major scale. Level 1 – this [...]
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