Class was great today! Thanks for helping your kids practice at home. Spending time on the piano at home during the week can really make a difference. Your kids have EXPERIENCED so much music theory and skills since Red Balloons and now we are LABELING a lot! Your kids are doing great, playing hard, and working hard. Check out the Play at Home videos if you need any demonstrations of what they get to play at home this week.

Lesson #6 and #11 will not be held as a normal class! It is instead a scheduled 20-minute private lesson with me where we start to create/write their composition. Please sign up for a composition private lesson if you haven't already. CLICK HERE for the links to the two sign-ups.

Registration is happening for in-studio and 1st year waitlist families this Saturday at 7am. Because your 3rd year student will graduate in May, you do not need to register for anything. (If you are interested in Bridge, this is NOT happening on Saturday. I will be getting back to those that filled out the Bridge form in the next couple weeks.) However, if you have a student in another year of Let's Play Music, please remember that the registration link will be sent THIS Saturday at 7am. If you have a child that you want to sign up for the 1st year of Let's Play Music, please let me know soon if you haven't already so that I will know to send you that registration link on Saturday.

John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith

This fun song from your childhood will get us learning a new style of bass root accompanying. Once we understand this we can improvise on a two handed marching style. It also is another opportunity to feel a half cadence. This song is also another opportunity to feel a half cadence (ends on a yellow chord instead of red).

I Can Build a Triad

Like the song says, "Pick any note to be the root... then add a third, and add a fifth!" Now that we are learning chord structure, our skipping snakes will help us to chant and spell each of our triads. Like any language, you speak (sing) it first, and then you can learn to write it. Want to practice making your own Skipping Snakes at home? Click here to print out and have fun with your own alphabet magnets at home!

There are lots of different variations on our 'John Jacob' song. I remembered singing it as 'Schmidt' instead of 'Smith' as a kid, and instead of 'look there he goes again' we would just sing 'la la la la la la la.' It can be lots of fun to take a familiar tune and improvise in fun and crazy ways. Which way does your family like best? The Rock'n'Roll, the Sesame Street, or the Sing a Ma Jig version??

I value open and honest communication so please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, concerns, or comments.

Thank you!