May 20, 2023

Level 1: Score of 84

Level 2:

Practice Journal

Keep track of every item and every minute that you practice for each day. Write them down with the current date and tally the minutes you practice at the end of the day.

💜Hanon No. 4 (start with this assignment every day)

1. FOCUS:

2. For CLOSE LOUD (m.m. 69 per note), your fingers must be curved or it doesn’t help as much as it could!

3. LEGATO: m.m. 100 two notes per tic. Your goal here it to play with a smooth, bump-free hand position.

   1. Hanon No. 2 (m.m. 60 per 8th note)

💚Royal Conservatory of Music Syllabus in Newzik: Level 2

1. See Newzik for you assignment.

2. Smooth, legato sound. No accent with the beat.

Celebrate Theory, Level 3

1. NO ASSIGNMENT YET

💚Sight Reading

1. Level 2A in Newzik: Do 2 per day.

   1. Focus on RHYTHM BEING STEADY BY FOCUSING IN YOUR HEAD BEFORE YOU BEGIN.

💜Basic Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer Nos. 89 and 90

1. Prepare the above.

💜Online Ear Training and Rhythm, Level 2 Ear Training

1. https://moodle.rcmusic.com/lms/my/ Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

2. Be sure to practice the RHYTHM and sight-reading

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      1. info@gledhillartscollective.com

      2. dust2789

🖤Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

💚Etude in D Minor op. 82 No. 65 by Cornelius Gurlitt (L. 2, Etude)

1. Your pedal catches the last notes of the previous measure when you change it. Careful not to have blurry pedaling and do the “rit“ at the end.

💚Etude in F Major, Op. 190, NMo. 27 by Köhler (L. 2, Etude)

1. Pedal - try to catch the bass in the pedal.

💚Impertinence, HWV 494 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

1. Speech (you don’t need to memorize word for word).

   1. The first piece on the program was originally composed for the harpsichord. A big difference between the piano and harpsichord is that the strings on a harpsichord are plucked and the piano’s strings are struck with a felt-tipped hammer. The harpsichord can’t create dynamics like the piano can, so my teacher and I created our own dynamics according to the character of the piece.

2. Not too fast. make sure your tempo is SOLID

💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

1. Great.

💚Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (L. 2, C)

1. Make sure to feel the rests between your notes and end the piece with a bit more “grace.”

1. 💚Impertinence by Handel (L. 2, A)

2. 💚Periwinkle Twinkle by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. 2, B)

3. A Starry Night by Italo Taranta (b. 1928) (L. 1, B)

4. Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. 1, Etude)

5. Mist by Clifford Poole (1916-2003) (L. 1, B)

6. Aria in F Major, BWV Anh. 131 by Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) (L. 1, A)

7. Swirling Leaves by Gordon A. McKinnon (b. 1952) (L. 1, C)

8. Waltz Op. 39 No. 13 by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) (L. 1, B)

9. 🟢Andante in G Minor by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) (L. 1, A)

10. 🟢Minuet in F Major K. 2 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)(L. 1, A)

11. 🟢German Dance in D Major Hob. IX:22, No. 2 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (L. 1, A)

12. 🟢Drifting Clouds by William Gillock (L. 1, Etude)

13. 🟢Calico Cat