Summer Practice Suggestions
- Play a scale high on your instrument and then low
- Play a scale correctly with your eyes closed
- Learn a new song
- Practice your instrument in your pajamas
- Play a song for a friend
- Play all the scales you know
- Memorize a song from your book.
- Do the next page in your theory book
- Go to a live concert
- Play 3 songs as quietly as you can
- Complete a composer study (see back of HSM Binder)
- Practice for 20 minutes in one day (It doesn’t have to be all at once)
- Play a song on a different piano or instrument
- Learn a new scale or arpeggio
- Perform your favorite song for your family
- Play a song for someone who doesn’t live at your house.
- Do 2 pages of Theory
- Play a music game
- Teach a friend or family member how to play something on your instrument.
- Call a family member (aunt, uncle, grandma, cousin etc.) and play a song for them.
- Listen to a piece of music on your computer (with your parents permission) by each of the following composers: Franz Liszt, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Frederic Chopin. Which was your favorite?
- Pick out a new piece and learn it by yourself.
- Memorize a piece you learned during the year.
- Polish up 5 old pieces and be ready to play them at the first lesson back.
- Compose a new piece and write it down or memorize it so you can play it at our next lesson.
- Record a video of a favorite piece and send it to your teacher or post it online and tag @hulinsistersmusic
- Sight-read through a whole book at an easier level.
- Attend a live music concert and write a paragraph about your experience and the instruments you heard.
- Put on a concert for family and/or friends, playing repertoire you learned this year. Be sure to play at least 5 pieces and make a program for your performance with a bio about yourself in it. (This can of course be combined with siblings who also play!)