Sept 3, 2024

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

Wild Colt p. 10-11

  • Keep practicing with count out loud
  • make BOTH staccatos short, not just the first one in each pair
  • add dynamics

Theory

Nothing this week

Lessons

Ferris Wheel p. 14

  • play m. 9-12 3 times in a row without a mistake. If you make a mistake, you have to start counting over from 1
  • then play the whole thing again

Haunted Mouse p. 15

  • keep practicing
  • look for patterns before you play to make sure you know what to play
  • go right to difficult measures and work on those with repetition

Learn Classic Dance and Young Hunter p. 16-17

  • write in counting if not already done
  • count out loud
  • add dynamics and staccatos

Performance

Learn Spanish Guitar p. 3

  • count out loud

Jack and the Beanstalk p. 4-5

  • Practice m. 25-27 and 28-30 extra until easy, then go back to the beginning and play the whole thing
  • Remember when you have two staccato notes (like m. 25) both notes are staccato, not just the first one
  • add dynamics