Mills Brothers

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Here's an update from my .txt document that I keep during the boys' lessons. You'll find a date and time stamp along with any scores. As you can see, we are into week 10 of the plan. Now that school has started, it is a bit easier to get at least one lesson done each week. The most recent results for Noah, who turned 9 in August are here. I'll copy and paste Lucas's next.

7:47 PM 9/16/2013 - Week 10
Three Sisters - taught, but couldn't find video... not sure what to do
French song - p1 - 46/48, time of 2!!! (video)
JIngle Bells - p1 - 72/77, time of 14 (video)

4:47 PM 9/3/2013 - Week 9
Chromatic scales with right and left hand needed review. OK so far.
French song - p1 - 46/48, time of 10... 46/48, time of 9
Jingle Bells - p1 - 64/77, time of 28, p1 - 65/77, time of 29, p1 - 71/77, time of 15! p3- 68/77, time of 25.... p5 - 62/77, time of 31

8:04 PM 8/28/2013 - Week 8
Note Alphabet School - 5 minutes - 217
Chromatic - lh - slowly first is best - can go quickly up and down!
French song - rh - perfect on 3rd try... lh - 20/20, time of 3... p1 - 48/48, time of 8...p6 - 40/48, time of 29... p3, 48/48, time of 7...p5 - 42/48, time of 11...
Jingle Bells - rh - 40/45, time of 11...lh - 28/32, time 10...65/77, time of 31

7:32 PM 8/19/2013
Noah can play the Hanon #1 with both hands both up and down an octave!
Note Alphabet School - 5 minutes - 228+10 = 238
Very first chromatic with right hand two octaves in 50 seconds!
French song - p1 - 43/48, time of 10... p3 - 42/48, time 21... some confusion with three notes versus four notes in a measure - taught quarter and half notes... p1 - 47/48, time of 15 when focues and slow.
Jingle Bells - rh - 40/45 time of 15.. lh - 28/32, time of 13... lh - 29/32, time of 9!

7:56 PM 8/1/2013
Note Alphabet School - 5 minutes - 221+30 = 251
Hanon #1 - both hands at the same time - even better than before going up confidently, going down OK...
Hot Cross Buns - p1 - 35/37, time of 5, p1 - 36/37, time of 4...
French song - rh - 27/28, time of 7...28/28, time of 6... lh - 20/20, time of 4... p1 - 47/48, time of 13... p1 - trying to go too fast - 40/48, time of 16... p1- 44/48, time of 15...

8:01 PM 7/30/2013
Note Alphabet School - 5 minutes - 149 + 12 = 161
Hanon #1 - both hands imrpoving well! nice andloud and slow but accurate!
Hot Cross Buns is awesome! He has it memorized and can play pretty well with a beat!
French song - rh - 23/28, time of 11... rh - 23/28,, imemeof 7...rh 26/28, time of 10... l 19/20, timimeof3~... lh - 20/20, time of 3. p - 46/48, time of 23.. p - 44/48, time of 15!

7:59 PM 7/25/2013
Note Alphabet school - 5 minutes - 163+24= 187
Guess Key School - 5 minutes - 116+5= 121
Hot Cross Buns - p5 - 35/37, time of 7... p6 - 29/37, time of 57... p6 - 37/37, time of 20
French song - rh - 23/28, time of 15... rh -23/28, time of 13... lh- 18/20, time of 2... lh - 17/20, time of 3... p - 43/48, time of 24... p - 46/48, time fo 19

8:12 PM 7/16/2013
Note Alpabet Game - 5 minutes - 115+6=121
Guess Key School - 5 minutes - 116+3= 119
Hot Cross Buns - rh - 14/15, time of 5 - going too fast, rh - 15/15 time of 2!...lh - 19/22, time of 10... lh- 21/22 time of 2... p - 32/37 time of 12... p - 33/37 time of 7... p - 35/37 time of 6 - best ever

8:07 PM 7/10/2013

Note Alphabet game - 5 minutes exactly - 161+18= 179
Guess Key School - 5 minutes exacly - 118+16=134
Hot Cross Buns - p (both hands) - 35/37, time of 18... 35/37, time of 8!

8:58 PM 7/2/2013

Note Alphabet game - 5 minute(about) - 120 and 3:12 time...
Guess Key School, five minutes exactly! 113 + 0 = 113, time of 1:10
Hot Cross Buns: rh - 25/26, time of 4... rh 24/26, time of 8 (fingernails going onto other keys)... lf - 16/16 time of 3... 14/16, time of 2... p1 - 37/42, time of 33... p1 - 40/42, time of 11!!!

8:23 PM 6/26/2013

Guess Key school, 5 minutes - 81+1 = 82, 1:25
hOT cROSS bUNS, LH - 16/16, TIME OF 2!... 16/16, TIME OF 1!
rh - 24/26, time of 5... 25/26, time of 7...26/26, time of 7

Here's Lucas's log. He is 7 years old.

7:18 PM 9/15/2013 Week 9 (again to finish!)
Chromatic rh and lh, up and down... faster!
French song - p1 47/48, time of 14... p3 - 43/48, time of 17... p5 - 45/48, time of 12!!!
Jingle bells - rh1 - 40/45, time of 18... lh1 - 32/32, time of 7... p1 - 66/77, time of 41... p1 - 67/77, time of 42...p1 - 73/77, time of 25

7:29 PM 9/5/2013 Week 9
Chromatic rh top to middle, lh, middle to bottom, then reverse... slow and steady!
French song - p1 - 38/48, time of 28... p1 - 44/48, time of 14 (better after going slower for accuracy)...


7:59 PM 8/29/2013
Chronmatic - rh - good, lh -can go up and down on first try!
Note Alphabet school - 5 minutes - 279 + 45 = 324!!!
French Song - rh - 26/28, time of 10... lh - 20/20, time of 3... p - 43/48, time of 20, p2 - 41/48, time of 27, p3 - 42/48, time of 22, p5 - 44/48, time of 21, p6 - 41/48, time of 39
Jingle Bells - rh - 42/45, time of 16... lh - 30/32 time of 11... p1 - 72/77, time of 32!

8:03 PM 8/20/2013
chromatic rh - 50 seconds two octaves
Note Alphabet school - 5 minutes - 275+39 = 314!!!
French song - rh- 24/28, time of 11... lh - 20/20, time of 4... p1 - 43/48, time of 21... p3 - 40/48, time of 17... p5 - 40/48, time of 27
Jingle bells - rh - 34/45, time of 26... rh - 43/45, time of 19... lh - 28/32, time of 14... lh - 31/32, time of 10!

8:32 PM 7/31/2013
Note Alphabet School - 5 minutes - 275+24=299 points!
Hanon #1 - struggles with both hands going down, but stayed determined.
Hot Cross Buns - p1 - 34/37, time of 21... p1 - 37/37, time of 9!!!
French song - r1 - 27/28, time of 15 - good singing!, r1 - 26/28, time of 11. l1- 20/20, time of 2!!!... p1 - 43/48, time of 25...45/48, time of 14

7:55 PM 7/29/2013
Note Alphabet school - 5 minutes - 263+15 = 278!
Hanon #1 - right hand nearly perfect! (up and down). left hand - a little slower and lighter, but good concentrations. Both hands at same time - very tough, can do it very slowly with much concentration!
Hot Cross Buns - practice right and left hands until perfect, p1 - 35/37, time of 15. 34/37, time of 21.. p5 - 36/37, time of 17... p6 - 35/37, time of 29
French song - r1 - 26/28, time of 16, 26/28, time of 14... l1 - 20/20, time of 3 - only anticiaptes too quickly, sounds good to me, though!

7:53 PM 7/18/2013
Note Alphabet school - 5 minutes - 275 points!
Hot Cross Buns - p - 36/37, time of 28... 34/37, time of 24... 37/37, time 23... p6 - 37/37 time of 33
French Song - rh - 23/28, time of 27... lh - 19/20, time of 6!... rh - 25/28, time of 18... lh - 20/20, time of 5!!!

8:10 PM 7/14/2013
Note alphabet school - 5 minutes... 231+27 = 258 points!
Guess Key school - 5 minutes... 113+5= 118 points
Hot Cross Buns... rh - 15/15, time of 5... lh -22/22, time of 21... lh - 20/22, time of 14... p - 35/37, time of 29... p - 32/37, time of 37... p - 34/37, time of 27

8:10 PM 7/3/2013
Note alphabet school - 5 minutes... 140+20=160 - very good first time!!!
Guess Key School - 80+12 = 92
Hot coss Buns - rh - 24/26, time of 7.... rh (w/ singing!) - 26/26 with time of 3... lh - 16/16 with time of 4... lh - 16/16 time of 3... p1 - 36/42, time of 32! ... 39/43, time unknown (made up scores but recorded on video)

8:06 PM 7/1/2013

guess key school - 56 minutes (more accuarate) 129+16=145
hot cross buns - rh 25 of 26, time 11... rh 26/26, time 12... lh - 16/16, time of 2.... lh - 16/16 time of 3
was able to do the five fingers exercise nice and slowly with both hands! I thought he'd be a stronger singer, but his voice was very quiet.

8:23 PM 6/25/2013
Guess Key School - 5 minutes - 130+17= 147!

I'm going to try to upload three videos I took of Noah tonight. Here's the link:

Looks like that worked. Here's another.