I'm back!! Did you miss me? I missed you! We haven't been slacking in the music department, though - WonderGirl regaled the grandparents with her piano skills, and I had 7 shows - yes, seven!! with my bands over two weekends!
It was fantastic and I am super warmed up right now :)But now we're back and trying to get into the swing of practicing again. It's not easy after a vacation - especially when it's summer! There are so many more interesting things to be doing! I stumbled on this post by a fabulous blogger, Music for Tots that gave me some hope. Her plan for summer practicing is to give her students easy folk tunes to learn to keep up their note and sight reading, and to learn lots and lots of them. It keeps them active and having fun!
a few weeks ago to give the summer some excitement. We've been having fun with Rock Around the Clock and other tunes that are enticing enough that WonderGirl has motivation to learn them without too much pushing from me. I'm taking Music for Tots advice and going back and getting more easy music for WonderGirl to play around with! She also posts some great free sheet music to snag online!!
Oh, and the Faber Chordtime books are no slouch either. I'm a poor pianist at best, but I was able to play some really well-written and great sounding tunes this past Christmas with the
ChordTime Piano Christmas (Faber Piano Adventures)
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Tis the season to have fun with practicing! PS - Are you on Pinterest?? Holy cannoli, what an awesome site!! I'm here, follow me so I can follow you!
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