Practice Guide
❤️= Priority above all else (repeated issues or reglect).
💛= Priority after red (on the right track but needs more work).
💜= Item we did not do at the last lesson. Lesson priority before green.
💚= on the right track! Practice these items as usual but prioritize other colors first.
🖤= don’t practice this item (on hold).
Lesson Assignments
#1❤️Gavotte by Handel (20-30 min)
Learn ONE to TWO measures at a time, SLOWLY, hands alone, then together.
With, without, with, without, with music.
#2💚”LET’S GO BACK”
Look at your music in Newzik
Where there are question marks “?????” Come up with at least 5 different phrases for lyrics for our chorus.
Write them in the music.
#2💚Note Reading Game on www.musictheory.net (MAX 4 MIN)
Goal for next week: at least 15 correct in 1 minute.
Set parameters to
Clefs: grand staff
Range: low C to high C
Accidentals: on
Challenge Mode: 1 minute
#3💚Sightreading_2A (MAX 5-8)
Go to Newzik and access the “Sightreading” PDF.
Do one per day and then move on.
Main reason for this assignment is to practice the technique you learned on the black keys
#4💜Johnny Bill by Oliver Manice
Try to play the melody of the chorus on the piano for your next lesson.
#5🖤THEORY Level 1
Finish reviewing unit 2 with Dustin at the lesson
Review List!
Once a week, review the following piece with your music.
💚What’s That Noise? By Martha Mier (b. 1936)
💚Barefoot on the Beach by Anne Crosby Gaudet (b. 1968)