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Rose Silver
Past Notes
January 5th, 2021
Rose didn't want lessons today.
December 29th, 2020
We cancelled lessons today.
December 22nd, 2020
Rose forgot today.
December 8th, 2020
Rose learned Silent Night, will the melody in the right hand. She didn't go over the arpeggios in the lesson, but we spoke about it, so that's something to try when she's confident with the chords.
December 1st, 2020
We had less time today but we added a new Christmas song, by "Wham!" - Last Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUH8Xfz-jg&ab_channel=WhamVEVO
November 24th, 2020
Rose went over Falling Slowly with me a few times - she's almost got it perfect. By next week we should be good to go to the next song!
November 17th, 2020
Today we worked on adding the left hand, and quarter notes in the right hand. This includes a little extra left hand note on the "and of 4"
November 10th, 2020
Rose finished up Hallelujah, and then we added a new song, Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard.
November 3rd, 2020
Rose played through Hallelujah today, first solid chords, and then one section by section to nail down the arpeggios.
October 27th, 2020
We did the arpeggios with the left and right hand today, working through the first half of the verse together, once section at a time.
June 24th, 2019
June 17th, 2019
June 10th, 2019
June 3rd, 2019
May 27th, 2019
May 13th, 2019
May 6th, 2019
April 29th, 2019
April 22nd, 2019
April 15th, 2019
April 8th, 2019
April 1st, 2019
March 25th, 2019
March 18th, 2019
March 11th, 2019
March 4th, 2019
February 25th, 2019
February 11th, 2019
February 4th, 2019
January 28th, 2019
January 21st, 2019
January 14th, 2019
January 7th, 2019
December 31st, 2018
December 17th, 2018
December 10th, 2018
We started a new song, by White Stripes, called Seven Nation Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qy8H6-5WY&ab_channel=CrappyAssDrummer
December 3rd, 2018
November 26th, 2018
November 19th, 2018
We continued with the next lesson, doing some basic fills - single beats on 3 and 4, and flams on 3 and 4, followed by a crash.
We also added the ride on eighths, copying the hi-hat.
We talked about the extra kick beat, which she had turned around the other way in her practicing, so we did both ways, and I asked her to practice both.
November 12th, 2018
Today we tried some basic drum lessons with Rose, and she really latched onto it.
We did basic 4/4 quarter note and eighth note grooves, with the kick on the & of 2 as well.
November 5th, 2018
October 29th, 2018
October 22nd, 2018
Rose was sick this day.
October 15th, 2018
We went over Let It Go, from last week (which I didn't record) and then added Passenger, "Let Her Go"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBumgq5yVrA
October 1st, 2018
Here's last week's song, which I forgot to record
Sam Smith, Stay With Me
https://youtu.be/pB-5XG-DbAA?t=29
September 24th, 2018
We went over the Lauren Daigle song a couple of times, then added a new song, "Hello" by Adele.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A
The pattern on this is a little more complicated, but it's still fairly easy.
September 17th, 2018
We worked on using legato playing between notes, so that there isn't a break between them. This involves using more fingers, on both hands.
We talked about octaves and fifths, and finding the new "1" from the octave.
We played through the song from both places (higher and lower octave)
September 10th, 2018
We went through the bass by numbers theory, and I showed her how to play the scale 1 through 6 on any string.
We did it with a basic beat: boom, rest, ba boom, rest
We then played through the Lauren Daigle song, You Say, with that bass line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqM23Ms_lqM
June 26th, 2017
June 19th, 2017
June 12th, 2017
June 5th, 2017
May 29th, 2017
May 15th, 2017
May 8th, 2017
May 1st, 2017
April 24th, 2017
April 10th, 2017
April 3rd, 2017
March 27th, 2017
Rose played through the Beethoven song for me and we really focused on the last phrase, which she was (and still is) having a hard time remembering. The whole song needs to be smoothed out some.
Then we added a new song from church called Rising Sun. I showed her how to play the four chords in it: E, C#m, A, and B.
March 20th, 2017
March 13th, 2017
March 6th, 2017
Today Rose decided to give another go at the piano. We reviewed the note names as animals, and she identified them all over the piano.
Then we wrote a little song:
e d c / e d c / g f e / g f e / g f e d c
She did it with both hands, playing C, A, F, and C with the left hand.
February 27th, 2017
February 13th, 2017
Rose didn't come today.
February 6th, 2017
January 30th, 2017
January 23rd, 2017
January 16th, 2017
We continued working on the four chords from Lose Control
January 9th, 2017
Rose started a new song on the Ukulele, called Lose Control:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8eLBLyVLgU
January 2nd, 2017
December 19th, 2016
We reviewed Silent Night, and then learned Jingle Bells, and added the chord G7
December 12th, 2016
December 5th, 2016
Rose and I worked on All Is Well, for the Christmas Pageant
November 28th, 2016
Rose and I went over the chords she's been learning, and then wrote out Down by the Bay and Silent Night as her songs to work on this week.
November 21st, 2016
November 14th, 2016
November 7th, 2016
Rose and I did some uke strumming, and learned E minor - also learned the c scale starting on the third string.
October 24th, 2016
October 17th, 2016
October 3rd, 2016
September 26th, 2016
September 19th, 2016
September 12th, 2016
June 27th, 2016
June 20th, 2016
June 13th, 2016
June 6th, 2016
May 30th, 2016
May 16th, 2016
We went over Lost Boy by Ruth B on the piano; I wrote out pictures of the chords for her so she could remember when she's practicing.
May 9th, 2016
Kids took a break today.
May 2nd, 2016
We did Lost Boy again, and looked briefly at playing the piano. For some reason she's balking at playing the piano now. Not sure what's going on.
She said she'd try next week.
April 25th, 2016
April 18th, 2016
April 11th, 2016
April 4th, 2016
Rose worked on Lost Boy by Ruth B.
March 21st, 2016
March 14th, 2016
March 7th, 2016
We went over the Sound of Music, but she changed her mind on it. We then tried Hello by Adele, but she didn't feel comfortable with that, and was getting emotional.
So, I told her to pick a song for next time and we ended early.
February 29th, 2016
February 22nd, 2016
February 8th, 2016
February 1st, 2016
Rose is working on "The Sound of Music"
January 25th, 2016
January 18th, 2016
January 11th, 2016
January 4th, 2016
December 28th, 2015
December 21st, 2015
December 14th, 2015
I was on the phone in lesson time.
December 7th, 2015
Rose and I did vocal warm ups, and a bit of Jingle Bells (I wasn't much in the mood today).
November 30th, 2015
Rose took the week off
November 23rd, 2015
November 16th, 2015
Rose wanted to work on Ugly Heart some more, and to record it. We found a few Karoke versions, none of which are very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwyBDUuyurs
November 9th, 2015
November 2nd, 2015
October 26th, 2015
October 19th, 2015
Rose and I practiced her solo again from the Christmas Show Camel Lot
October 12th, 2015
October 5th, 2015
September 28th, 2015
Rose warmed up her voice for the first 10 or 15 minutes, and then we worked on the solo for Camel Lot. She tends to yell a bit, though she can have a really pure sound too. We worked on things like posture, not lifting her chin on higher notes, keeping her throat open.
September 21st, 2015
Rose and I worked on one of her solos for the Camel Lot musical.
September 14th, 2015
June 22nd, 2015
June 15th, 2015
June 8th, 2015
not in the mood tonight.
June 1st, 2015
Rose forgot tonight, and I didn't care. :)
May 25th, 2015
Rose wanted to change songs to the same one Grace is doing, "Hanging Tree"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxRQNO8vg2Y
May 11th, 2015
May 4th, 2015
Rose and I added Ugly Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxRQNO8vg2Y
here's Karaoke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5AIo2bDCOw
April 27th, 2015
Rose and I recorded the song Opportunity from Annie. We ran out of time.
April 20th, 2015
April 13th, 2015
We found a karaoke she should practice along with.
We'll try recording it next week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJMovqXhTF8
March 30th, 2015
March 23rd, 2015
March 16th, 2015
I was too sick today.
March 9th, 2015
Rose and I re-recorded the vocals from Blank Space, and then started work on Annie's Opportunity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cviqWZAWEc
March 2nd, 2015
February 23rd, 2015
Rose and I recorded Blank Space, using a Karaoke track -- she was having trouble with a stuffed nose.
February 9th, 2015
I had trouble with my server yesterday, so couldn't make notes.
Rose took Seth's spot. We did some warm ups, and then went over the Taylor Swift song she's learning, "Blank Space"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ORhEE9VVg
February 2nd, 2015
January 26th, 2015
January 19th, 2015
January 12th, 2015
Rosie and I recorded the bell sounds to her song, which is now complete.
We need to come up with another thing to work on now.
January 5th, 2015
Rosie and I reviewed the recording "The Moon Sees Me", and then tried to learn the bell part to record. We recorded a couple of takes, but not finished.
December 29th, 2014
December 22nd, 2014
December 15th, 2014
In Rose's lesson we recorded her singing the Moon Sees Me song she learned in school.
We also spent some time learning the glockenspiel part for the intro, instrumental, and ending.
We'll try recording those parts next week.
December 8th, 2014
She felt frustrated with Rudoplh the Red Nosed Reindeer, so we added "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and we went over that a few times.
She's coming along pretty well... she is hard on herself when she doesn't get something.
December 1st, 2014
November 24th, 2014
Rosie has forgotten some of the note names, so we reviewed that together. I may have been a tad hard on her, which I feel bad about, but she's got pretty broad shoulders.
We added the next part of the song Rudolph (I wrote out the notes for all the parts in her book).
We covered the correct fingering, but it was a bit frustrating for her.
November 17th, 2014
We started by doing a boom chuck chuck on the left hand of Down by the Bay.
Then we learned the melody of the first part of Rudolph the Reindeer. We went over the chords too, but she was getting a bit overwhelmed, so we'll try that next week.
November 10th, 2014
Rose added the left hand to Down by the Bay, which we added last week.
November 3rd, 2014
October 27th, 2014
October 20th, 2014
October 13th, 2014
No lessons this week (Thanksgiving).
October 6th, 2014
Rose and I did a review of Mary Had a Little Lamb, and she's not quite to the point where Grace is yet, so I asked her to work on it some more this week. We also added Baa Baa Black Sheep.
September 29th, 2014
Rose and I reviewed Mary Had a Little Lamb, and added arpeggios on the left hand-- she's still playing them as solid chords, but can try to add the arpeggios as she gets better.
I didn't explain to her that they were called Arpeggios.
September 22nd, 2014
Today we reviewed London Bridge, and then added Mary Had a Little Lamb.
We used both hands for Mary, C and G chords in the left.
September 15th, 2014
Grace and Rose basically got the same lesson today-- we learned the names of the keys, using the animal system, and I did some quizzing to help them get used to it. Gracey picked it up a bit faster.
We then learned the song London Bridge, using note names, Grace learning the left hand where Rose wasn't quite ready for that.
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