Anthony Stelmach

Great work, as always.

Please practice your C and B flat scales, Lesson 4 #7, and the sixteenth note introduction.

We will be starting a new sixteenth note worksheet this week. Please download from below and print for this week.

It is also available here:

Sixteenth Note Tunes Clarinet by Astelmach

See you Wednesday.

Great work, as always.

Please practice your C and B flat scales, Lesson 11 #6A, and the sixteenth note introduction.

We will be starting a new sixteenth note worksheet this week. Please download from below and print for this week.

It is also available here:

Sixteenth Note Tunes Clarinet by Astelmach

See you Wednesday.

Good work, as always.

We should be practicing our buzzing every time we practice. Also, work on all of Lesson 3.

We are going to try the first warmup in the back of the lesson book. Feel free to print out page 26 for the next lesson.

See you Wednesday.

Great lesson, as usual.

Please practice your warmup scale, Lesson 3 #3, and the sixteenth note exercise.

We will start a new exercise this week called sixteenth note tunes. Please print out the appropriate file from below. Here is a play-along version:

Sixteenth Note Tunes by Astelmach

See you Tuesday.

Great job, as usual.

Use this to help you warmup:

Clarinet Trumpet- 5 note warm up by Astelmach

Please practice Jingle Bells (Lesson 5 #7) and Lesson 6 #5 & 7

We will start working on Walking Dino next lesson. Please print out the PDF below. Feel free to check it out here:

Walking Dino Clarinet by Astelmach

See you Tuesday.

Great work, as always.

Practice the D scale here:

Violin- D scale by Astelmach

Practice Seesaw here (we’ve now worked on measures 1-16 at 50% speed):

Seesaw by Astelmach?share=copy_link

See you Tuesday.

Great work, as always.

Keep practicing the F and C chords.

Use the following play-along exercises:

C Chord

C chord practice by Astelmach?share=copy_link

F Chord

Uke- F chord by Astelmach?share=copy_link

Changing between F and C chords

Ukulele- F Chord to C chord by Astelmach?share=copy_link

We also performed Row Row Row Your Boat with the…Read more

Great work, as always.

We should be warming up each practice session with our D scale, #32 in the book.

Please practice #33 and #34 in the book without the bow and with the bow.

Here are a couple of playalong exercises for these:

Song for Susan:

Song for Christine by Astelmach

Natalie’s Nose:

Natalie’s Nose by Astelmach

If they are too…Read more

Great work as always.

1 – It is a good idea to warmup each practice session with the rhythm tree we’ve been using. It is here for you. Remember that you can change the speed if you’d like (in the middle of the top with the %):

Drum Rhythms by Astelmach

2 – Practice those rudiments. We’ve worked on the 5 stroke roll, 9 stroke roll, flam, flam ta…Read more

Well done this week.

1 – It is good to start each practice session with the quarter notes and eighth notes in the playalong exercise below. Play only the first line. Don’t worry about the rest as we have not learned those rhythms yet.

Drum Rhythms by Astelmach

2 – Practice Lesson 6 #7-8 & Lesson 7 #1.

Check this out for Lesson 6:
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Well done this week.

Please use your warmup scale each time you practice.

We did some work learning sixteenth notes. Here are the playalong exercises.
Flute:

Sixteenth Notes Flute by Astelmach?share=copy_link

Clarinet:

Sixteenth Notes Clarinet by Astelmach?share=copy_link

Saxophone:

Sixteenth Notes Saxophone by Astelmach?share=copy_link

If…Read more

Well done this week.

Please use this playalong exercise in your warmup for each practice session:

Clarinet Trumpet- 5 note warm up by Astelmach

We’ve also been working on Lesson 6 #3-5. Check out the following page for some additional help and practice with Lesson 6…Read more

Well done this week.

Practice #70-73 in our Essential Elements book. We’ve also been working on Seesaw. Please practice the first 8 measures. If you’d like to try more of the song, go for it.

Here is the playalong exercise (I think we were at 50% speed):

Seesaw by Astelmach?share=copy_link

The PDF for Seesaw is available in Thoughts from Nov 3…Read more

Good job this week. Keep it up.

Good work learning the new versions of the C chord (third finger in third box of the blue string) and the F chord (first finger in first box on yellow and second finger in second box on green).

Use this to practice the C chord (third finger in third box of the blue string):

C chord practice by Astelmach?share=copy…Read more

Great work.

Continue working in Essential Elements. We have now made it to #32, which is a scale. Practice without the bow and with the bow.

Keep up the great work.

See you next Tuesday.

Good work yesterday.

1 – It is good to start each practice session with the quarter notes and eighth notes in the playalong exercise below. Play only the first line. Don’t worry about the rest as we have not learned those rhythms yet.

Drum Rhythms by Astelmach

2 – Practice our Thanksgiving song in Lesson 5 and the first half of Lesson 6.

Here…Read more

Good work yesterday.

1 – It is good to start each practice session with the quarter notes and eighth notes in the playalong exercise below. Do not go into the notes with the 3s near them (triplets).

Drum Rhythms by Astelmach

2 – Practice our Thanksgiving song in Lesson 5 and the first half of Lesson 6.

Here is some information on Lesson…Read more

Good work as always.

1 – It is a good idea to warmup each practice session with the rhythm tree we’ve been using. It is here for you. Remember that you can change the speed if you’d like (in the middle of the top with the %).

Drum Rhythms by Astelmach

2 – Practice those rudiments, such as the 5 stroke roll, 9 stroke roll, flam, and flam tap. We…Read more

Great work yesterday.

Due to Veteran’s Day, there will be no lesson on Wednesday, November 11th. Please thank all veterans in your family.

It is a good idea to start each practice session with our C scale. You can play along with this exercise:

Trumpet – C scale by Astelmach

We have also been practicing Cantina Band. Remember that you can…Read more

Great work yesterday.

Due to Veteran’s Day, there will be no lesson on Wednesday, November 11th. Please thank all veterans in your family.

It is a good idea to start each practice session with our C scale. You can play along with this exercise:

Trumpet – C scale by Astelmach

We have also been practicing Cantina Band. Remember that you can…Read more