Purple Magic Lesson 1

Welcome everyone back from summer – are you excited for our 3rd and final year!?!
Your kiddo should be on their piano for a few minutes each day to complete the workbook assignment on Lesson One. Bust out your old Alphabet Pieces game to review those white keys!

Listen to the first 13 songs on the app as often as possible. Those lyrics are critical!

Feel like your child could use some extra help on Scale Out and In? Here’s a video link that will help!

Treble, Bass, Line and Space
Time to learn all the note names on the staff! This song also teaches countermelody ( a secondary melody played against a primary melody) and helps your student sing in 4 part harmony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-melody

Bounce and Roll
Complete musicianship is more than knowing WHICH notes to play. We are now ready to add another dimension of HOW to play the notes. This song allows us to ‘physically’ know and understand the articulations of staccato and legato. Articulation refers to the musical performance technique that affects the transition or continuity on a single note, or between multiple notes or sounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articulation_(music)

As you start out this year, check out this practice tip from our Let’s Play Music Blog. Here’s a little ‘practice humor’ for you.

https://makingmusicianslpm.blogspot.com/2014/01/longtermvison.html

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!