November 21, 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:

   1. Mm. 1-8 in two-measure chunks.

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

2. Review mm. 9 to the end with a very slow pace.

💚Czerny Op. 299 No. 2 in C Major

1. Measures 1-4

   1. get rid of any pauses

   2. Speed-build

   3. Do technical work as needed

2. 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. Focus on tidy attacks.

2. See the green highlights.

3. Why do we play with fingers 2, 3, and 4 (sometimes) in the black key area?

   1. ANSWER: to facilitate the playing of your thumb and fifth fingers on the black keys, without compromising your wrist position (no twisting).

💚Celebrate Theory, Level 3

1. Complete Unit 1

2. Complete Unit 2 as a bonus.

💚Bartok Microkosmos:

1. Left off on no. 51

2. DO NOT play fast

3. Remember the #1 goal of this exercise is to learn to move forward from any mistakes and keep a steady pulse.

4. Play SLOWLY

5. Look ahead

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

1. Prepare nos. 99 and 100

💚Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

1. Prepare Set 2

New piece: List C or Etudes

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

1. Continue to focus on expression

2. Do technical work in the RH to get rid of any uneven playing.

3. Use wrist more in your broken octave measure 20-21

🖤Beethoven Sonatina

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

1. Fix all green pen

2. Keep RH fingers rounded please.

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)