Well, the good thing is that I am slowly progressing through the book. I am now able to see a song and play it within a 15 minute period, not perfectly of course but that's just fine with me. I am having a little trouble with left hand and the C and G7 chords but that will all shake out with practice!

So I have slowly been progressing over the past few weeks. I went home last weekend and dug out my old keyboard so I brought it to school with me. That means that I can practice whenever I get a free moment or two which will work out much better for me. The music reading is going along, I still find base clef rather difficult to do but that will come along in time. I started working on C and G7 so we'll see where that takes me next week!

~Caitlin

Well, I am starting to play with both hands but I am getting frustrated easily becuase I don't know how to read music. So, I am going into piano note boot camp and will be practicing reading music every day at least for 5 minutes. I feel that if I can read music easily then my playing will improve much quicker becuase my hands are moving fine and can do the pieces in the book but not as fast as I would like since I cannot quickly tell a g from an f, etc. So, hopefully this will make me progress much quicker! See you next thursday!

So I practiced for almost an hour and a half last thursday. I am trying to fix my schedule so that I can practice more than just once a week because I'd really like to be able to start playing actual songs with two hands by the end of the semester. I did start to learn harmonic and melodic intervals. I really think that if I can easily read music I will progress much faster so that is what I have been practicing for the most part. I am going to try and make a goal for the week to practice at least 2 1/2 maybe 3 hours this week!

P.S. Francine, do you want to meet Thursday at 6:30pm so we can make up for the group time next week? That is if you are feeling better. I hope the food poisoning wasn't too bad!

Happy Playing!