Sept 17, 2024 – Hale

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

Learn Pop Pop and Floating Balloon p. 12-13

• Write in counting
• count out loud
• Play each song for 5 minutes. Play difficult measures extra, add dynamics and staccato and pedal where written

Do p. 10-12 (we will do p. 13 together)

Young Hunter p. 16-17

• work on all of the dynamics
• careful you have all 4 staccato notes in m. 1 and m. 9

Learn Skipping in Space p. 18

• count out loud
• Notice these are all skips
• you won’t have to work on this more than a few minutes each day

Learn Half-Time Show, Lonely Pine, and Li’l Liza Jane p. 19-21

• spend 5 minutes per song
• focus on difficult areas instead of playing start to finish every time. Play those measures extra, and pay attention to details like staccato, legato, dynamics, and pedal
• write in counting
• count out loud

Learn Spanish Guitar p. 3

• count out loud
• play this for 5 minutes each day, focusing on difficult measures
• add dynamics

Learn Pop Goes the Weasel p. 6-7

• write in counting
• count out loud
• remember the 2nd page is a repeat of the first page, there’s only one note difference