Hello! Class was really great yesterday! I was having a conversation with one of you over text yesterday and I mentioned how I am feeling really impressed by this batch of 2nd years. They are grasping onto the new concepts we are learning with enthusiasm and an awesome level of understanding. Thanks for playing with them at home and I get to see you next week in class! 

In class we worked on playing the red chord some more this week! The kids are doing great with putting their RH in C Position ("thumb on middle C and a finger for each key") and got some good practice playing the red chord. Now they get to play a song with just the red chord....our friend "Old Paint"! 

White Keys

This week we reviewed anchor notes C & F in class with the 2nd verse of Kit Kat Keyboard. Play a quick game of “Show Me a _______”( LOW F, HIGH C or a MIDDLE C). This will help cement these white anchor notes as well as review keyboard geography! 

Red Chord

Do you want to build a snowman? This year, a red chord will always be stacked up nice and neat like a snowman with two stacks of 3rds. Enjoy drawing rounded snowmen for the theory this week! 

Old Paint

Now that we know how to read and play a red chord we get to play our favorite Old Paint! When you sing together exaggerate that down beat: good BYE, old PAINT, I'm LEAV-in Chey-ENNE. Mix it up singing in a cowboy voice, an opera voice, in a video for grandma! SING ALONG as your child accompanies you both feeling the steady beat and hearing beautiful harmonies all at once!  

Our first puppet show this year has been renamed “Spring Bees” for the sake of Let's Play Music's story line. However, its real name is “Spring” and is from a set of four violin concertos called, The Four Seasons composed by Antonio Vivaldi. What is your child’s favorite character? Can they hear the loud (forte) and soft (piano) within the themes? Which themes are major and which ones are minor? 

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Thank you!