We had a great class this week - - - We practiced floating our RH bubble hands into C Position a lot today! 🎶"Thumb on Middle C and a finger for each key!"🎵 This concept is still very new and quite tricky. What I saw today was great! It will take weeks of practice before it feels natural.

With our hand in C Position they were introduced to playing intervals. And we ALSO practiced playing the red chord. They now get to play "Old Paint" in their big green books at home this week!

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 is called "Spring Bees". The musical accompaniment is called "Spring," a movement from 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!