May 22, 2024 – reminder: no lessons next week. I’ll be in touch the first week of June to set up summer schedule

Rhythm

5-part rhythm:

  • Do 5-Part Lap Map, making up your own rhythms
  • Then do 5-Part rhythm with your lap map
  1. Reaction: something new takes you by surprise. Cure: Eagle vision
  2. Anticipation: this can be daydreaming, or getting worried about a difficult part coming up. Cure: Eagle vision, get back into feeling your tapping, hearing your singing/whispering
  3. Looking Back: You look back to a mistake you just made and start talking to yourself about it. Cure: Tell the “bad coach” to stop, and keep moving forward

Technique

Do Technique secret 1 and 2 p. 2

Learn Smooth Take-Off p. 6-7

  • count out loud
  • do wrist-float off

Theory

Do p. 2-5

Lessons

Do p. 4-7

Learn Sailing in the Sun and Ferris Wheel p. 11-13

  • count out loud
  • add dynamics

Performance

Showboat p. 2

  • Keep practicing with counting out loud
  • remember the patterns

Learn Spanish Guitar p. 3

  • count out loud
  • add dynamics

Sacred Music Competition

Firefly

  • Remember dynamics

Indian Portrait

  • have foot on the pedal from the beginning, and pedal for the middle part in m. 9 and 11
  • remember the dynamics, and getting softer and slowing down at the end
  • don’t play too fast
  • hold hands down as long as you keep your foot on the pedal at the end, then lift both hands and foot together