2015 Calendars are Up and located in the Google Calendar on the right hand side!

Blue Bugs Spring 2015

DATE            Monday class 4pm	LESSON #
January 5	$ Lesson 1
January 12	Lesson 2
January 19	Lesson 3
January 26	Lesson 4
February 2	$ Lesson 5
February 9	Lesson 6
February 16	Lesson 7
February 23	Lesson 8
March 2	$ Lesson 9
March 9th-21st     Spring Break (2 weeks)	No Class
March 23	Lesson 10
March 30	Lesson 11
April 6	Lesson 12
April 13	$ Lesson 13
April 20	Lesson 14
April 27	Lesson 15
May 2nd         (Performance)	Time: 10:00am
Recital Location: LDS Javelina Building                            2300 W Javelina Ave Mesa AZ 85202 Reminders: Parents attend & tuition is due on lessons: 1, 5, 9 & 13 Parents attend on all odd-numbered lessons Tuition for 1st year is $ 45.00  Classes are 45 minutes long. Checks payable to: Brooke Sutherland

Yellow Arrows Spring 2015

DATE         Wednesday Classes	LESSON #
January 7	Lesson 1
January 14	Lesson 2
January 21	Lesson 3
January 28	Lesson 4
February 4	Lesson 5
February 11	Lesson 6
February 18	Lesson 7
February 25	Lesson 8
March 4	Lesson 9
March 11       Spring Break	No Class
March 18       Spring Break	No Class
March 25	Lesson 10
April 1	Lesson 11
April 8	Lesson 12
April 15	Lesson 13
April 22	Lesson 14
April 29	Lesson 15
May 2 (performance)	10:00am
Recital Location: LDS Javelina Building                             2300 W Javelina Ave Mesa AZ 85202 Reminders: Parents attend 1, 5, 9, 13 & 15 Tuition is due on lessons: 1, 5, 9 & 13 Tuition for 2nd year is $200.00 or (4 monthly payments of $50.00) Make checks payable to: Brooke Sutherland 2nd Year Classes are 50 minutes long.

Classes Start in 2 weeks!

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Red Balloons
Fall Calendar 2014

DATE	LESSON #
August 18	Lesson  1 $
August 25       *Monday 9/1 Labor Day NO CLASS	Lesson 2
September 8	Lesson 3
September 15	Lesson 4
September 22	Lesson  5 $
September 29   *No Class 10/6 October break	Lesson 6
October 13	Lesson 7
October 20	Lesson 8
October 27	Lesson  9 $
November 3	Lesson 10
November 10	Lesson 11
November  17	Lesson 12
November  24     (Happy Thanksgiving week!)	No Class
December  1	Lesson  13 $
December  8	Lesson 14
December  15	Lesson 15
January 5	Blue Bugs- lesson 1
Classes will resume January 5 – Blue Bugs Reminders: First year class times: Mondays @ 4:00pm Parents attend & tuition is due on lessons: 1, 5, 9 & 13 Parents attend on all odd-numbered lessons Tuition for 1st year is $ 45.00 Make checks payable to: Brooke Sutherland                                                 1st Year Classes are 45 minutes long

Purchasing a keyboard for your 2nd Year of Let's Play Music

If you have not yet purchased your keyboards for home practice, look here for detailed information or see the tips below.

The minimum requirements for your Let's Play Music experience are:

• The piano or keyboard must have full-sized keys.  Your child will build muscle-memory reaching the exact distance between 2, 3, 4 or more keys - those distances are exact.
• The piano or keyboard must have at least 5 octaves (61 keys).  Your child will have enough range to play everything in the LPM curriculum.

Electric keyboards are used by most teachers in class.  If you choose to purchase one for home, they can be found at yard sales, on Craigslist, at black Friday sales, and at many stores.

• Since keyboards don't need tuning, you probably won't run into a "bad" used one, but it is a good idea to download a free pitch pipe for your smartphone and check that the keyboard is tuned.
• The 'master tune frequency' should be at 440 Hz. On some keyboards this can be changed and make your keyboard seem out of tune.  Some keyboards also have transpose functions or pitch bender wheels or joysticks- if these get damaged, your keyboard will be out of tune.
• Although rare, a faulty cable could change the power delivered (and resulting sound) resulting in an out-of-tune keyboard.
• In our classes we rarely use the myriad of fun programmable functions, except in 3rd year when playing ensemble pieces like "Song of Joy".  So choose a keyboard that makes you happy.

The amazing Power of Harmony in music!

We teach "harmony" and pitch matching on a weekly basis in our Let's Play Music curriculem and this video shows one of it's many uses in our world today. Enjoy, you will be toe tapping and singing right along with Billy Joel and Jimmy Fallon .

Billy Joel and Jimmy Fallon "Harmony" to "In the Jungle"

Let's Play Music Registration for new 1st Year Red Balloon Students

Hello future Let's Play Music students,
Pre-Registration has begun! The link below will allow you to see class times and provide Registration information to me and Enrollment for new students will open April 2, 2014.

2014-15 Registration Form

If you would like to watch a video clip of my current classes, you may view that here.
Can't wait to sing and learn with you.

Blue Bugs Spring 2014 Calander

Blue Bugs

Spring Class Calendar-2014

January 8                                                 Lesson 1 -$$

January 15                                                Lesson 2

January 22                                               Lesson 3 

January 29                                                Lesson 4

February 5                                              Lesson 5 -$$

February 12                                              Lesson 6

February 19                                             Lesson 7

February 26                                              Lesson 8

March 5                                                     Lesson 9 -$$

March 12                                                   Lesson 10

March 19   Happy Spring Break              NO CLASS

March 26                                                  Lesson 11

April 2                                                       Lesson 12

April 9                                                        Lesson 13 -$$

April 16                                                     Lesson 14

April 23                                                     Lesson 15

April 26 (rehearsal my home)                Time: 4:00pm

April 30     Performance 6:30pm for all classes

Dobson Branch Library (Saguaro Room)

2425 S Dobson Rd Mesa, AZ 85202

Classes will resume August 2014 – Green Turtles!

Reminders:

Parents attend on all odd-numbered lessons (in bold)

$$-Tuition is due on lessons 1, 5, 9, & 13 and is $45

Make checks payable to (Brooke Sutherland)

Classes are 45 min. long

Please call or e-mail if you have any questions that aren’t on this sheet!   (Brooke Sutherland 480-343-4943  alaskanbrookie@live.com )