Music Riddle for My Students (November 2014)

Earn 25 bonus points by being the first to text or email me the correct answer!

Unscramble and give definition for:

ATOSCTC =  Staccato (detached note)

Monika is the winner!

*Thanks to Caleb for finding the error (missing an "A") 

Important Information for my students:

Starting the week of Nov. 11th...students earn bonus points for recording their practice on the weekly assignment sheet.  Simply write down the amount of time you practice each day and get one of your parents to sign at the bottom of the assignment to verify your practice time for the week. ( You must have at least five recorded days of practice to qualify for bonus points.)

Be Inspired By a Small Hand Pianist!

Pianist with Small Hands: Inspiring Article & Video!

Even though I’m not a small handed pianist…I sometimes experience the feeling of having small hands due to challenging passages in music.  While in high school I would always roll a 10th in the left hand.  However…after playing a 10th with a gentle “rolled” movement over time….I found that I had stretched my left hand span and soon began playing solid 10ths!

While researching pianists with small hands, I came across the following inspiring article and video!

Who Am I?

What classical composer smuggled a small keyboard up to the attic and secretly practiced piano during the night after everyone had gone to bed?  George Handel

First person to text or email me wins 25 bonus points!

Daniel is the winner!

New Riddle for My Summer Piano Students!

  

Who Am I?

I look like an eye but cannot see
And when a pianist looks at me
They play and pause on just that key.
 Who am I?  Fermata

The first one to text or email me is the winner!  You'll receive 25 bonus points at your next lesson.

Winner:  Hannah Myers

Music Riddle!

You'll find me in written music...Although foreign to the key...I slip right in and take my place. Whom am I?

Correct answer: accidental 

Congratulations Hannah Myers!

Spring Recital in the Works! Part Two

We are busy preparing for our annual spring recital.  Here is part two of our upcoming selections!

Music Riddle

Unscramble the letters below to spell musical terms:

TELOGA

ATMFREA

The first one to call me or email the correct answers...wins 25 bonus points!

Hannah Myers is the winner!

Great Piano Links!

Just happened across these two neat sites today and wanted to share them with my piano students.

http://www.pianomuseum.org/

http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/furnishings/piano.htm

Final Music Trivia Question for February 2014

Solve this musical  math problem:

Half rest + Whole rest + dotted half note - half note =

Congratulations!  Monika is the winner :)

Music Trivia Question

 

To: My Students

Be the first to email me the answer to the following music trivia question and receive 25 bonus points!

 "The space between barlines= ______________"

The winner is: Daniel Richardson who was very quick to respond! 

Let Me Introduce You...

Here is a video of my new student, Emma Schmidt, playing her first piano duet.
She has taken piano for almost a month and doing very well!