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Deborah's Piano Lessons
Private Piano Instruction with Deborah Savage
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It's a great time to set some musical goals for the new year! What do you want to accomplish?
🍎 🎹 HAPPY SEPTEMBER! 🎹 🍎
Hannah
September 16, 2026
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Mar 12
✏️ 🍎 Happy September! ✏️ 🍎
This is a good month to learn the works of a new composer or elements of a different style!
Welcome back to lessons! Let's get started! Please consult your student calendar or portal for your weekday schedule!
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🎵 Miss Deborah's Lesson Practice Notes For You For This Week 🎵
Last Lesson Points!
4
20
Total Points/Goal Points
Congratulations!
You reached your Piano Points Goal!
Remember the THUMB is FINGER NUMBER 1. The POINTER FINGERS ARE FINGER NUMBER 2.
We need to use BUNNY BOUNCES for all our notes with STRONG FINGERS! NO KICKY FINGERS :-)!
Today we learned about the TIME SIGNATURES and HOW TO COUNT 4/4 TIME so that there are 4 COUNTS IN EVERY MEASURE!
We are practicing pressing all the way down to the bottom of the keys whether we are playing loud (f) or soft (p). Remember that the 2nd fingers are the POINTER fingers on both hands.
When we come to a half note we say the finger number then we say HOLD after it so that it gets the full 2 counts.
We are working on our nice hand shape and not sitting too close to the piano. We need room for our arms to be relaxed. We also worked on our "bunny bounces" for repeated notes in our songs and learned the DYNAMICS for our DYNAMIC DEN game.
We learned p = piano (soft) , f=forte (loud)
pp=pianissimo (very soft), fortissimo (very loud)
mp=mezzo piano (medium soft), mf=mezzo forte (medicum loud)
