IT'S EASY TO GET STARTED! IN STUDIO & ONLINE PIANO INSTRUCTION FROM THE CURIOUS PIANIST!
Welcoming kids and adults of all ages for in studio, online, and hybrid piano lessons in the San Francisco Bay Area serving the local communities and school districts of Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Cupertino, Westmont, Campbell, West San Jose, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Cambrian Park, Santa Clara, Mountain View and for remote and online students everywhere! Traditional private instruction will be tailored to your student using with modern techniques and methods! For online or hybrid students, an immersive multi-camera approach provides engaging and fun remote lessons! Homeschoolers welcome!
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Deborah's Piano Lessons
Private Piano Instruction with Deborah Savage
TAKE LESSONS IN PERSON, ONLINE, OR A COMBINATION OF BOTH! FOR THOSE WHO PREFER, LEARN VIRTUALLY FROM THE COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE OF YOUR OWN HOME
For non-local students in the domestic US or beyond, remote instruction is also available to accommodate your time zone!
The roses are blooming! Learn the old tune "Country Gardens" or a modern song with a flower name in the title!
🌷 🎹 HAPPY MAY! 🎹 🌷
Logan
Thursday, May 14, 2026
🎈 🎹 RECITAL PIECE: Premier Boogie - 1) Remember to enter the bench and open and set the music down before you sit down! 2) DYNAMICS 3) get pedal ready at the beginning 4) 4 measure introduction, we changed the last measure to a shake on COUNT 3
Alfred (Premier) Lesson Book - Level 2B
LESSON: see the recital notes
*TECHNIQUE: p. 12 A Quiet Lagoon - learn hands separate careful note reading.
THEORY: -
Wunderkeys The Adventures of Fearless Fortissimo
Hollow Night: Grim Troupe - We separated hands in the TREBLE - Close attention to fingering, READ THE NOTES and the fingers
*p. 22 Strike Back
Rhythm Menagerie - see your printout - A NEW UNIT WITH EIGHTH NOTES 🎵 - only Lines 3 & 4
Musicianship
**SHARP TUNE: F# C# G# D# A# E# B# RULE: 1/2 step up from the LAST SHARP NAMES THE KEY - CAREFUL WITH THE 4th FINGE
Scales: D Major 1 octave hands separate AND hands together, 2# , Fingering: Like C, D Major, minor, diminished, and augmented chords, arpeggios
🎹 🌺 Studio Closures:
Monday, May 25th (MEMORIAL DAY)
Sunday May 31st (RECITAL)