Bridge Lesson #2: Your kids are doing great. We're having fun in class and they're working hard. I'm pushing them to stretch their thinking and they're doing it!
ASSIGNMENT SHEET 2
Magic Key Technique Book: Again, this portion should go pretty quickly. Play through them and move on.
*Secret Circle Finger Exercise: Good work on this! Make sure that those knuckles stay strong.
*C Major Scale: If they can't do it as fast as the recording, spend a few days playing it slowly but correctly hands together. Then try it with the recording again.
*C Major Triads: I have mixed feelings about this exercise. I do see why it is important, but it's also kind of cumbersome. Work through it this week by following the patterns in the box on page 7 with the recorded track.
*C Major Chord Progression: We didn't get to this in class. Don't worry about it this week.
Student Songbook
*Primary Chords Song with V7 pg 18: We added a 7 to the V chord! We talked through the meaning of the V and the 7, and how to play it. I told them they could play the three-note V7 chord as written, or the four-note V7 chord that we did in class.
*Chords in Pieces with V7 pg 21: Careful fingering!
*Don't Put Your Trash pg 34: We didn't get to this in class, but keep working down the levels.
*Primary Chord Dance pg 26: The right hand plays the same chord notes as the left hand in each measure. Just watch the rhythms! This is a fun one. The left hand plays beat one, and the right plays the rest of the beats. Playing this one hands together is almost easier than hands separately because they take turns!
Student Workbook: Do the Theory activities first. The Rhythm & Reading and the Music History are secondary in importance.
*Rhythm & Reading 2: We did not get to this in class. Write in counts on a few of them. There are a lot, so no worries about doing them all.
*Theory 2: They should be able to do these no problem.
*Music History and Composer's Corner 2: We did not get to these in class. My plan was to review the eras of music history that we talked about last week. They can look at page 6 to be able to fill in page 12. Page 13 is a video of a medieval instrument. It is interesting, but not required.
Flashcards
*Do any note naming activity. As always, you can write in times if that works for your student. If timing adds anxiety without helping them learn, then skip it.
**I will give stickers to each section of the book they do, and just skip over what they don't do with no guilt or concern.
