How fortunate to have a day off school. Try to add an extra 20 minutes to your practice time every day. Here are some ideas:
- if you are learning a new scale, try to improvise in that key for three minutes
- play a duet or accompany a sibling or friend who sings or plays another instrument - ensemble playing is a great way to develop sight reading and a good sense of rhythm
- photocopy a piece you think you know, cut the copy up into bar-sized chunks, and jumble them up; see if you can play any bar, any time, without too much trouble
- see if you can arrange the jumbled bars into the right order again without playing them - if so, you can clearly hear the piece well in your head, congratulations!
- think of a song you know by ear and try to pick out the tune at the keyboard. Don't forget to give your left hand a part to play too if you can!
Don't forget to tell your teacher at your next lesson about what you have created in these or other ways
