2017-2018 Lesson 12: Luke Jow

Please remember to do Blue Note

Notes & Makeups

Reading

  1. Blue Note - 10 Correct in Under:

    1. Treble Clef: Level 4: LETTERS: beat your personal best time of 43 seconds (20 is goal!)
    2. Treble Clef: Level 4: SOLFEGE: beat your personal best time of 34 seconds (20 is goal)
    3. Bass Clef: Level 3: LETTER: (20 is goal) 
    4. Bass Clef: Level 3: SOLFEGE: (20 is goal)

Repertoire

  1. Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2 by Burgmuller

    1. All 16th note figures: "drop - pop" technique
      1. Step 1: drop into the first note with the weight of your arm
      2. Sept 2: pop up from the last note of the figure with fingers like willow tree

  2. *Musette by Felix le Couppey

    1. mm 9 and 10: fix the fingering and note (la)
    2. Be able to play the RH alone through the entire piece at one tempo with correct fingering and notes  

  3. Chopin Prelude

    1. Two textures: 

      1. kitty sound

      2. clean pedal with melody 

2017-2018 Lesson 11: Luke Jow

Please remember to do Blue Note

Notes & Makeups

Reading

  1. Blue Note - 10 Correct in Under:

    1. Treble Clef: Level 4: LETTERS: beat your personal best time of 43 seconds (20 is goal!)
    2. Treble Clef: Level 4: SOLFEGE: beat your personal best time of 34 seconds (20 is goal)
    3. Bass Clef: Level 3: LETTER: (20 is goal) 
    4. Bass Clef: Level 3: SOLFEGE: (20 is goal)

Repertoire

  1. Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2 by Burgmuller

    1. LH learn measures 1-10
    2. RH measures 11-18
    3. LH 19-End 

  2. Musette by Felix le Couppey

    1. mm 9 and 10: fix the fingering and note (la)
    2. Be able to play the RH alone through the entire piece at one tempo with correct fingering and notes  

  3. Chopin Prelude

    1. Fix the red pedaling and other markings.

    2. Deli cat! 

2017-2018 Lesson 10: Luke Jow

Please remember to do Blue Note

Notes & Makeups

  1. Performance Class: Novem er 19th, DiMenna Center
  2. Do makeup in October / November for October 6th missed by Dustin

Reading

  1. *Blue Note - 10 Correct in Under:

    1. Treble Clef: Level 3: LETTER NAMES: beat your personal best time of 17 seconds (16 is goal!)
    2. Treble Clef: Level 4: SOLFEGE: beat your personal best time of 25 seconds (16 is goal)
    3. Bass Clef: Level 2: LETTER NAMS: beat your personal best time of 18 seconds (16 is goal) 
    4. Bass Clef: Level 2: SOLFEGE: beat your personal best time of 20 seconds (16 is goal)

Repertoire

  1. Musette by Felix le Couppey

    1. Hands alone with correct rhythm and notes
    2. Use your music - do not rely on your ear! 

  2. Chopin Prelude

    1. ***m. 4 - Correct pedaling.

    2. mm. 9-12 Hands Together with correct pedaling

    3. mm. 12- end of page, LH fix all your fingering and notes. 

2017-2018 Lesson 9: Luke Jow

Notes & Makeups

  1. Performance Class: Novem er 19th, DiMenna Center
  2. Do makeup in October / November for October 6th missed by Dustin

Reading

  1. Blue Note - 10 Correct in Under:

    1. Treble Clef: Level 3: LETTER NAMES: beat your personal best time of 17 seconds (16 is goal!)
    2. Treble Clef: Level 4: SOLFEGE: beat your personal best time of 25 seconds (16 is goal)
    3. Bass Clef: Level 2: LETTER NAMS: beat your personal best time of 18 seconds (16 is goal) 
    4. Bass Clef: Level 2: SOLFEGE: beat your personal best time of 20 seconds (16 is goal)

Repertoire

  1. Musette by Felix le Couppey

    1. Dustin will send. 

  2. Chopin Prelude

    1. **m. 4 - Fingering: 3-5 times in-a-row correctly.

    2. **m. 4 - Pedal: 3-5 times in-a-row correctly.

    3. **m. 4 - Fingering and Pedal Together: 3-5 times in-a-row correctly.

    4. mm. 11-12 - Same assignment at no. 5 below

    5. mm. 9-10 - LH alone with correct fingering and notes. With and without your music. 3-5 times in-a-row correctly.  

    6. mm. 13-14 - LH alone with correct fingering and notes.   3-5 times in-a-row correctly. 

    7. m.m. 15-16 - same as no. 6 above.

    8. m.m. 17-18 - same as no. 6 above.

    9. m. 9 - learn hands together. 3-5 times in-a-row correctly.

2017-2018 Lesson 8: Luke Jow

Notes & Makeups

  1. Performance Class: Novem er 19th, DiMenna Center
  2. Do makeup in October / November for October 6th missed by Dustin

Reading

  1. Blue Note - 10 Correct in Under:

    1. Treble Clef: Level 3: LETTER NAMES: beat your personal best time of 17 seconds (16 is goal!)
    2. Treble Clef: Level 4: SOLFEGE: beat your personal best time of 25 seconds (16 is goal)
    3. Bass Clef: Level 2: LETTER NAMS: beat your personal best time of 18 seconds (16 is goal) 
    4. Bass Clef: Level 2: SOLFEGE: beat your personal best time of 20 seconds (16 is goal)

Repertoire

  1. Musette by Felix le Couppey

    1. Dustin will send. 

  2. Chopin Prelude

    1. m. 4 - pass next week with correct pedal (changing too early), RH fingering in the 4th beat. 

    2. mm. 1-8 - clear pedal changes. 

    3. mm. 9-12 - LH alone with correct fingering and notes at ONE TEMPO. 

    4. mm. 13-19 - LH alone with correct fingering and notes   

2017-2018 Lesson 7: Luke Jow

Notes & Makeups

  1. Performance Class: Novem er 19th, DiMenna Center
  2. Do makeup in October / November for October 6th missed by Dustin

Reading

  1. Blue Note

    1. Treble Clef: Level 3: LETTER NAMES: beat your personal bets time of 23 seconds. 
    2. Treble Clef: Level 3: SOLFEGE: beat your personal best time of 27 seconds. 
    3. Bass Clef: Level 2: LETTER NEAMS: beat your personal best time of 24 seconds. 
    4. Bass Clef: Level 2: SOLFEGE: beat your personal best time of 26 seconds. 

Repertoire

  1. Chopin Prelude

    1. Follow the red pen 10/4 instructions in your practice chart.  

2017-2018 Lesson 5: Luke Jow

Notes & Makeups

  1. Do makeup in October / November for October 6th missed by Dustin

Repertoire

  1. Chopin Prelude

    1. RH: mm. 1-19: position is the goal: "claw wrists" posture. Remember to look down at your hand a make sure you're keeping good form. Also, DON'T SLIDE.

    2. RH: mm. 15 & 17: play back to back so you can fix the rhythm.

    3. RH: mm. 1-19: notes: play through and if you make a mistake, go back at least one measure and fix it three times in-a-row

    4. LH: m. 3: three times in-a-row correctly: fingering, rhythm, notes.

    5. LH: m. 4 (same as item 4 above)

    6. HT: mm. 1-2 

2017-2018 Lesson 4: Luke Jow

Notes & Makeups

  1. Do makeup in October / November for October 6th missed by Dustin

Repertoire

  1. Chopin Prelude

    1. LH Relearn notes and fingering in m. 4. Do this measure with and without your music 

    2. LH mm. 1-8 be able to play all notes in LH fluently and slowly with and without your music - with the correct fingering.

    3. RH mm. 1-8 - same assignment as no. 2 above.

    4. RH mm. 9-16 fix your rhythm - practice counting out loud or ta and conduct if you need to. Be able to play this with no stops and correct rhythm and fingering. 

    5. LH mm. 9-13 learn the LH alone with the given fingering. 

2017-2018 Lesson 3: Luke Jow

Do a makeup in November for missing Saturday October 7th. 

VIDEO ASSIGNMENT: Watch the following videos and comment on them in the same manner as your last video assignment. 

1. On the first day of practice, just listen through all the videos. 

2. On the second and third days, choose a small section and compare the performances as you did with your assignment last week. 

1. Two measures at a time (or one!) LH & RH together as we did at the lesson. Mm. 1-8, melody and bass together (no chords). 

2. mm. 1-8 - LH learn all notes. Use the new practice video as a guide to check our work, NOT to learn the notes.   

3. Learn mm. 8-15 - learn the RH with correct fingering and notes. 

2017-2018 Lesson 2: Luke Jow

The following assignment should take you four to six days to complete: 20-40 minutes for each day.

1. Copy the first two phrases of your Chopin onto your staff paper. Make sure to copy EVERYTHING YOU SEE. All notes, articulations, dynamics, fingerings, etc... Be very neat and take your time with this. I'd like you to feel proud of the way it looks when you're finished. How close to the original score can you make it look?  

2. Listen to the first two phrases only of both the Ashkenazy and Horrowitz recordings, found in your last lesson blog. Do the following: 

  • Find two specific differences in each performance. 

  • Write them down and be very specific. "The dynamics were different" doesn't count. Think about how we listened to the first half of the first measure at your lesson - Remember that Ashkenazy took time on the first bass note in the LH, whereas, Horrowitz keeps strict tempo.

3. Watch your practice video above and follow the instructions!

 

2017-2018 Lesson 1: Luke Jow

The following assignment should take you two to three days to complete: 20-40 minutes for each day.

  1. Find the PDF I emailed you of the Chopin Prelude Op. 28 No 15 in D-flat Major. Print it out and have it with you while you follow the instructions below.

  2. Listen to all three videos below as you follow along with the score. Using paper or a computer, write down what you like and don't like. Notice if the performers follow the instructions in the score. Notice tempo changes and differences in dynamics, accents, melodies and anything else that may stick out to you. Be able to show me written or typed notes.

  3. Using blank staff paper, copy every visible detail of the score (EXCEPT THE PEDAL MARKINGS) for the first eight measures of the Prelude.

Next week: what is a Prelude? Finding patterns in this piece. A quick look at the form / structure. Learning the first phrase!