Summer Practice Suggestions

  • Play a scale high on your instrument and then low

  • Play a scale correctly with your eyes closed

  • Learn a new song

  • Practice your instrument in your pajamas

  • Play a song for a friend

  • Play all the scales you know

  • Memorize a song from your book.

  • Do the next page in your theory book

  • Go to a live concert

  • Play 3 songs as quietly as you can

  • Complete a composer study (see back of your music Binder)

  • Practice for 20 minutes in one day (It doesn’t have to be all at once)

  • Play a song on a different piano or instrument

  • Learn a new scale or arpeggio

  • Perform your favorite song for your family

  • Play a song for someone who doesn’t live at your house.

  • Do 2 pages of Theory

  • Teach a friend or family member how to play something on your instrument.

  • Call a family member (aunt, uncle, grandma, cousin etc.) and play a song for them.

  • Listen to a piece of music on your computer (with your parents permission) by each of the following composers: Franz Liszt, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Frederic Chopin. Which was your favorite?

  • Play a music game

  • Pick out a new piece and learn it by yourself.

  • Memorize a piece you learned during the year.

  • Polish up 5 old pieces and be ready to play them at the first lesson back.

  • Compose a new piece and write it down or memorize it so you can play it at our next lesson.

  • Record a video of a favorite piece and send it to your teacher

  • Sight-read through a whole book at an easier level.

  • Attend a live music concert and write a paragraph about your experience and the instruments you heard.

  • Put on a concert for family and/or friends, playing repertoire you learned this year. Be sure to play at least 5 pieces and make a program for your performance with a bio about yourself in it. (This can of course be combined with siblings who also play!)