Russ’s Piano Lessons

May 1, 2025

Technique/Scales

  • 3-5 minutes: G or C Major scale, two octaves
  • 3-5 minutes: Drill finding chords in root position. Focus on dominant 7ths, minor 7ths, major 7ths, etc. choose a root from random and then build the 7th chord from there (don’t worry about voicing these, the idea is just to build them quickly)

Repertoire

Morning Prayer

  • practice for 10 minutes each day, focusing on these different sections:
  1. m. 22-24
  2. m. 20-21
  3. m. 18-19
  4. m. 16-17 (you can add beat 3 of m. 15 since there’s a tie over the barline)
  5. m. 14-15
  6. m. 12-13
  7. m. 10-11
  8. m. 7-9
  9. m. 5-6
  10. m. 3-4
  11. m. 1-2

Bewitched

  • practice 10 minutes, doing 2 measures at a time reading from lead sheet. Figure out what voicing you’d like to do for those 2 measures and then drill that until easy