Suggestions specific to this lesson:
Welcome everyone back from summer and be excited for the 2nd Year: Keyboard Time!
Outline the practice process for this year:
Here at the beginning, practice only needs to take as little as Outline the practice process for this year:We
can play a red chord now! Your little piano player should have a red dot on his right hand on the THUMB (finger #1), MIDDLE FINGER (finger #3), and PINKY
(finger #5). These are the finger numbers that are used to play the RED chord. Put the RED stickers on your piano at home and match the dots on their
fingers with the stickers. They’ll be ready to play Old Paint next week! (See image below for where to place stickers! They should be in your child's
bag.)
Celebrate Connection
Here are some ideas to bring playfulness to practice time!
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Sing Old Paint with a Western accent
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Kit Kat Keyboard: with the stopwatch on Mom or Dad's phone, time yourself (and Mom or Dad) to see how fast you can play all the C's! Now all the
F's!
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Primary Chords: When you play the red chord this week, sing, "Red" each time your play it. Now try
singing red in a different language: French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, German...ng Old Paint with a western accent.
Kit Kat Keyboard: With the stopwatch on Mom or Dad's phone, time yourself (and Mom or Dad) to see how fast
you can play ALL the C's! Now all the F's!
Primary Chords: When you play the red chord this week, sing, "Red" each time your play it. Now try singing
red in a different language: French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, German...
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