November 8, 2023

Level 1: Score of 84

Level 2: Score of 96

Level 3:

Practice Journal

Write down in the comment section below every item you practice and for how long.

💚Czerny Op. 299 No. 1 in C Major

1. Speed-building: gradually speed-build using a metronome. No more than 4 speeds at a time.

2. Use “accent practice” as needed: Accent every four 16th notes. Rotate them.

3. Review the rest of the piece with a very slow pace.

💚Czerny Op. 299 No. 2 in C Major

1. Prepare measures 1-2, hands together.

2. High Loud: 1. Straight-up, 2, down-curved, 3. Relaxed. (no more than 3 min every day)

   1. Remember the first step needs to be clearer in terms of movement.

3. Review the rest slowly.

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

1. 🖤Rhythms:

   1. 🖤Long, Long, Short, Short

   2. 🖤Long, Short, Short, Long

   3. 💚Short, Short, Long, Long

   4. 💚Short, Long, Long, Short

2. 🖤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 3

1. Make sure your upper body is relaxed. Shoulder down and chest upright.

2. Play much slower on the broken chords.

3. Be very careful that your wrist is not too high and make your fingers round.

4. Let go of notes after you play them.

5. Play further into the black.

🖤Celebrate Theory, Level 3

1. NO ASSIGNMENT YET

💚Bartok Microkosmos:

1. Left off on no. 46 - continue on!

💚Basic Rhythmic Training by Robert Starer No. 95 (slower)

1. Prepare nos. 96 and 97

💜Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

1. Prepare Set 1

💚Sonatina in C Major op. 36 no. 1 by Clementi (L. 3, B)

1. Fix all pen and focus on expression

🖤Beethoven Sonatina

💚Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 (L. 3, B)

1. Fix all pen.

2. Focus on expression

1. 💚Musette in D Major BWV Anh. 126, attr. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (L. 3, A)

   1. Please focus on dynamics when you review.

2. Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (L. 3, A)

3. 💚Minuet in G Minor, BWV Anh. 115 by Christian Petzold (1677-1733) (L. 3, A)

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

5. 💚Impertinence, HWV 494 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) (L. 2, A)

6. 💚I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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