Wilson Music Studio

Thursday, January 19, 2023 by Alaina Wilson | Amazing Race Tasks

Welcome to week 14 of the Wilson Music Studio Amazing Race!

This week will be another Learning Task. You can download and print your form here. This task will only require the first page. Save the second page for next week!

You will be learning about Emahoy Tsegui-Maryam Guebrou. You can find a biography here. I think you'll find a lot of interesting things about this composer!

(Beginning students - parents can modify the form to only include name, date and place of birth, 1 important piece and something interesting.)

Good luck, and may the winds be in your favor.

Thursday, January 12, 2023 by Alaina Wilson | Amazing Race Tasks

This week's task is a PRACTICE task. I call this "penny practice." 

To do penny practice, you need five pennies (or five other small objects like markers or Lego blocks). You choose one small section of the music where you’re having trouble: one or two measures is plenty! (Maybe there’s a tricky fingering or bowing pattern, or a rhythm that isn’t quite solid yet.) Put all five pennies on the left side of your music stand. Every time you play the tricky measure correctly, you get to move a penny to the right side of the music stand. Every time you make a mistake, ALL of the pennies go back to the starting point. 

If you do penny practice three days in a row, over the same tricky passage, you’ll find that the tricky measure isn’t nearly as difficult any more!

To complete this task, simply send me an email that says "done" when your student has completed penny practice 3 days in a row. I will ask them to show me the section they practiced.

Good luck and may the winds be in your favor!

Thursday, January 5, 2023 by Alaina Wilson | Amazing Race Tasks

Our twelfth task is a listening task. On the back side of the job application for Manuel de Falla is a listening log. You can go to 

this site to listen to a piece written by de Falla. Fill out the listening log and return it next week. May the winds be in your favor.