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Shoo-Fly Rhythm

I came up with a new thing to help with the different but similar rhythms in Shoo-Fly (Level 5): Banana (G-B-G) & grape grape grape grape (G- Bbx4) Apple (B-G) Banana (G-B-G) Students often get confused with the similar little phrases… banana and apple helped…

Blues Scale Fingering

Is there anywhere in the program that explains how to count and play triplets? (of quarter, eighth or 16th notes)? When doing the blues improv in some keys, like Eb, the blues scale notes don’t seem to fit with I, IV, V. In other keys…

Teaching dotted note rhythms

I am working with another class on Reading Rhythm. We’re at dotted notes and up to now, I have not mentioned anything about counting “1 & 2 &” etc. For a dotted quarter note, do you guide them to feel “left, right, left…” for the…