Sept 24, 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

Pop Pop and Floating Balloon p. 12-13

• Use a timer and spend 5 minutes per piece
• write down a list for each piece, and cross of the items as you can do them. You can keep the same list all week:

1. Learn notes and rests with counting out loud
2. Add staccato and legato
3. Add dynamics (and pedal if needed)

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

Learn Skipping, Half-Time Show, Lonely Pine, and Li’l Liza Jane p. 18-21

• spend 5 minutes per song – use a timer
• 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
• 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