It’s time to put the YELLOW STICKERS on for the LEFT HAND! In class we practiced playing the chords with each hand, and really looked at the fingering. As your child plays at home, please watch to be sure that the proper fingers are used. Good habits developed now will stick forever! Remember to look in the back of the student manual at the reference section - pg 41 - if you're not sure yourself, about the correct chord fingering.
Finger numbers can sometimes be confusing…since the left hand is backwards from the right. Take a few minutes whenever you need to sing “Where is 3? Where is 2?” to help your child remember how the fingers of the left hand are numbered. Thumbs are 1, pinkies are 5.
We started playing our Indian song this week with our left hand (bass clef). They used fingers one and 5 and played Low C and G, as a 5th interval. They played these notes as slugs, and it sounds like the slow drum part of the song. See the highlighted notes on pg 12 of their books, and make sure they sing along while they practice!
We started playing the full C major scale with the left hand. This is tricky because after 5 notes, your child runs out of fingers! While still holding the thumb (1) down on G, he must reach the long 3 finger over to the next note, A. We call this “popping the bubble” since it definitely doesn’t look like a bubble hand! Once the 3 is on A, he fixes his hand into a new bubble, and continues to play the B with 2 and the C with 1.
If my description sounds confusing to you, you’ll get to see it live next week, since NEXT WEEK IS PARENT WEEK. See you then!
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