1.  Finger Exercises: Continue practicing octaves.  The more you
     
2.  Chord Composition: Rock'n Blues:  A fun way to practice octaves!
     There are several important parts to this lesson:
     1.  A song to practice playing octaves, using the correct fingers.
     2.  The beginning of playing 7 chords
     3.  Learning and practicing rhythms:
1.  Octaves:  The octaves that are white notes will be played with the 
1 & 4 fingers.  The octaves with a black note are played with 1 & 5 fingers.
 
2.  7 chords:  Learn this song by its chords and inversions not by just
     reading the notes.  The best way to learn this song, is to memorize the chord progressions.  Example F7 chord for 4 measures, B Flat 7 chord for 2 measures etc.  Learning songs by the chord progressions and their inversions, you are able to learn much faster.  Instead of reading single notes and putting them together, you can group notes in chords and learn quicker and easier.  The same idea will be used in classical musical, analyze the scale and chord progressions and then memorize the composition.  I memorize these progressions in my mind before I ever actually play the piano.  As you will learn later, when analyzing chords in classical musical, you will understand the form the composer wanted to portray and be able to interpret the music.  
    This week practice only the right hand which starts on page 43.

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"Rock'n Blues"


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