Orange Roots Lesson 6
Private lessons went FANTASTIC!!! Your kiddos made a ton of progress on their compositions and I’m working hard to type them up now. Check your email in the next few days to get a nice copy of their first draft you can practice together at home.
Wow! What a fun lesson #6. I was blown away with your children’s compositions this week! Everyone came to their private lesson with an idea of what they wanted to do. Some even had it notated on their staff pages for me. (Thank you moms!) It was fun dreaming up ideas of what was to come next. Every student felt successful and happy with what they had accomplished.
Please have your child play their piece for you (when you get it in your email) and prepare to be amazed. Our compositions are not finished yet so encourage your child to keep working. Now that we have something on paper, encourage your student to continue practicing their composition and complete whatever notes from me that you see. (i.e. finish filling in the chords or finish notating a melody line etc.) Many of the children have finished their “A section” and now need to focus on writing a contrasting “B section”. We will have another private lesson on Lesson 11. Let me know if your child needs a little extra help between now and then. Persuade them to start working on the next part of their song. Continue to add to your compositions. You’re on a roll, so don’t stop now!
On From the New World, don’t forget about the ‘blue chord position’ and special ‘bass C’ position that the LH will need to move to on pg. 15 of Part III. Here is a quick video to help with that.
Watch this video of a young prodigy composer who pulls four musical notes out of hat, improvising and composing a piano sonata in under a minute.
For my convenience, I have preloaded content for the whole semester. I will update each future post with specific time-sensitive info before I send the link each week. If you choose to read ahead you might see details that don’t apply to your child’s class. For this reason I do not recommend reading ahead. Thank you!