Thursday, March 20, 2025 | Yellow Arrows Lessons

Lesson #11

Here is a really great technique idea you can try at home! It's a video made by a Let's Play Music teacher in Ogden. Please watch it and try it with your child, especially if they are having trouble keeping their "bubble hand" shape! This will help keep fingers from "flying away". Give it a try!

Registration for next year is open for current students and we are at the final stages! You have until April 30th to register and enroll your student for 3rd year. If you register by March 29th, you won't have to pay the $20 registration fee! I realize some of you are waiting on other details before finalizing your class time. Just be sure you watch the deadline so you don't get a late registration processing fee.

Celebrate Connection

A few ideas to make practice time more playful!

• Tap the rhythm of your RH while tapping the rhythm of your LH on the keyboard cover (Or just tap one hand if the song is hands alone).
• Pick a measure to play, then close your book and try it from memory.
• Face Time (or call) a family member and play for them.

Scale In and Out
This technique is teaching contrary motion where the same finger numbers are played together moving in opposite directions. RH pinky (5) begins on Treble C and LH pinky (5) begins on Bass C. Play and sing IN the major scale with fingers 5 4 3 2 1 POP 3 2 1. Both thumbs will land on Middle C. Then play back OUT using fingers 1 2 3 POP 1 2 3 4 5.   

Oh, When the Saints
March 2, 3, 4! We can march with our feet AND our fingers. A marching chord is a type of stylized chord that will make this song sound much more like a march. To play a marching chord, play the bottom note of the chord alone and the top two notes (interval) together and the fingers are MARCHING! Feel free to march around the house as your child plays marching chords with this energetic song!      

Tinga Layo
To practice Tinga Layo, play the block chord as written with the calypso rhythm. An example of how to play this rhythm is at the bottom of the page in the songbook. Follow the chords and CHANT in rhythm Shoo-oot the Bug Bug or Ting-a Lay-O while playing!

C Major Scale In and Out

With Spring in the air, your blooming musician can hop on this life-size keyboard practicing the music alphabet in the sunshine!

Here is a link to all the skills videos as well as the link to be able to purchase a class video to make up for a missed class. (tap or scan)

Have a musical day!
-Ms. Bethany :)