Group & Solo Piano Lessons taught by Sheri Bauer-Mayorga East Chatham, NY sheri@greenbowermusic.com |
Green Bower Music Studio |
Lessons are centered around ear training, theory (music reading, sight reading, sight singing, dictation, harmony, compositional forms and styles), and development of keyboard skills. The program provides a great foundation for concentrated instrumental studies, songwriting, composition, and improvisation.
the staff and keyboard: "a-b-c-d-e-f-g") along with solfege (also called "moveable do":"do-re-mi-fa-sol- la-ti-do"). Students will learn scales with both letter and solfege names. This is a great foundation for learning how to play melodies by ear, notate music, transpose, and improvise. Will students be asked to sing at lessons? Yes! I'll ask students to sing beginning songs with solfege, sight sing melodies, AND play them on the piano. Students won't be asked to sing in performance mode, and singing softly, or like "Kermit The Frog", is fine! The goal is to engage the voice and allow it to directly and consciously connect us with the music. The voice ( both the "inner" and "outer" voice) is the most direct route to creating bonds with the music in us and around us. It provides the opportunity for musical understanding at the deepest level, so we'll definitely make use of it! Practice At Home Students will have weekly homework assignments to review. Assignments will usually include a new piece, a review piece, some solfege work, and some written work. The piano method books I use come with a practice CD. The CD includes a performance of a piece to be learned and/or the accompaniment for the student to play along with. Students will be asked listen and play along with the CDs during the week. I use practice CDs myself. Jazz instrumentalists and singers have known the benefits of this kind of practicing for many years... all the way back to the days of vinyl records! See this link to an incredible catalogue of jazz recordings to improvise with: Jamey Aebersold Jazz Books |
