Last Day?

1. Stick to practice plan. Help the others stay on track as well. Remember to set goals and regularly check your progress towards achieving them.
2. Practice pages 110-115.
3. Progress through the book or work on songs only when you're ready. Be honest with yourself.
4. Make sure to stay relaxed. Remember to make things musical.
5. Don't be afraid to start When September Ends if you feel up to it.
6. Form: Keep your wrists low. Thumb joints. Round fingers. Play with grippy fingerprint (not the tip not the flat). Don't get too deep into black keys. Keep wrists back far enough from keyboard. Sit up, adjust bench to support good posture. Power from the wrists. Fingers-push thumb-twist Pinky-both. 
7. Practice habits to remember: Set a timer. Use a metronome. Practice in chunks! The build up from chunks. Practice chunks using the Rule of Five. Go slow, then work up to speed. Count to the metronome.
8. Progress through the book or work on songs only when you're ready. Be honest with yourself.
9. Have fun and do your best! I'm proud of how far we've come!

Moving forward

1. Pages 110-113.
2. Sing the melodies as you play and practice.
3. Don't avoid the singing, face the demon!

Practicing in CHUNKS

1. Practice in chunks!
2. Remember dynamics.
3. Pages 109.
4. Drag if lazy.
5. Leave practice notes/comments.

Bigger and Better

1. Pick a Green Day song to transcribe for piano.
2. Sing all melodies of parts and songs you practice. Focus on piano first, then singing.
3. Singing, Sing loud, Jaw fully open, round mouth shapes, short consonants, long vowels, breathe.
4. Pay attention to songs you like on Spotify.
5. Pages 109-113.

Chasing the Blues Away

1. Count for all the days.
2. Correct errors in chunks before graduating to all the song.
3. Relax for all the days!!

1. Pages 108-111.
2. Count while practicing and using the metronome.
3. Practice in chunks. Build up to the whole song.
4. One song at a time.
5. Help your sisters, keep an eye out.

Got Those Blues Vol. III

1. Be methodical. Go through all the right steps while you practice.
2. Once you have the song down, be swaggy, play with feeling, stay loose, sway with the beat.
3. Watch your timing.
4. Watch your dynamics!

Got Those Blues

1. Keep wrists low!
2. Stay loose, start to play with more feeling, more musical.
3. Work on staying on time better.
4. Work on making dynamics more crisp and accentuated.