Announcements
- Practice Card is due on Tuesday, September 8th
- Students are expected to practice on only for 15 minutes at a time this weekend.
- Private Lessons are strongly encouraged. Sign-up now before all of the available time are filled
- Ask your student to demonstrate their correct posture, hand position and valve/slide series.
What We Did This Week
In your child’s practice time, they should only be doing these things during their 15 minute practice sessions. Please encourage them to remain patient as we are learning all of these basic items. They are so filled with excitement and energy that they want to get right to playing songs (I don’t blame them). But first things first.
- Music Theory lessons 1-5
- Correct breathing (before they play and while playing a steady note)
- Holding out a steady target tone
- We are learning our note names and recognizing symbols
- Valve and Slide series
- Practice your note names on musicracer.com
Next Week
- Music Theory lessons 6-9
- First notes
- Daily Drills will begin (warm-up exercises)
- First melody (on Friday)