KEY OF THE WEEK
Beginning students are ideal candidates for introducing KOTW to. If you can establish early on the regular requirement to learn something new every week this will stand the students in good stead for the rest of their instrumental development.
Setting a new tasks each week will also instill good habits of regular practice early on in their playing careers. Read More . . .
Just because we don't currently have your specific instrument or clef should not stop you using KOTW. The exercises on this site are only a guide and suggestions as to the type of exercises you might use. You are encouraged to transpose these exercises for your instrument (can you do that at sight?) and also to make up new exercises which are more suited to your own particular needs.
We are continually adding new exercises to the KOTW section, so whilst we may not have your instrument and clef at the moment we may well do in the near future. Read More . . .
The short answer is any way you like! The key (no pun intended) point and reason behind KOTW is that you should be trying to play a different key each and every week. In this way you will become adept at all the keys and prevent any one key becoming weaker than the others.
That said we do appreciate that lesson time is valuable and would not expect that a significant amount of time will be used up by KOTW. Typically including KOTW in your lessons should take no more than a couple of minutes. Read More . . .
The ability to play in all keys, both major and minor, is one of the most important things we have to learn as musicians. Often the first time we even think about some keys (the ones with lots of flat or sharps!) is when we have to play them for exams.
Key of the week is a way to get to know all the keys by using them regularly. Each week you can choose a new key to learn. The exercises are very short, so more advanced students may also want to learn them from memory. If you are using KOTW as part of regular lessons you should find that it can be completed within a few seconds of the start of your lesson. Read More . . .
