December 17 & 22, 2024

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)

  1. Learn ONE to TWO measures at a time, SLOWLY, hands alone, then together.

    1. With, without, with, without, with music.

#2💚”LET’S GO BACK”

  1. Look at your music in Newzik

  2. Where there are question marks “?????” Come up with at least 5 different phrases for lyrics for our chorus.

  3. Write them in the music.

#2💚Note Reading Game on www.musictheory.net (MAX 4 MIN)

  1. Goal for next week: at least 15 correct in 1 minute.

  2. Set parameters to

    1. Clefs: grand staff

    2. Range: low C to high C

    3. Accidentals: on

    4. Challenge Mode: 1 minute

#3💚Sightreading_2A (MAX 5-8)

  1. Go to Newzik and access the “Sightreading” PDF.

  2. Do one per day and then move on.

  3. Main reason for this assignment is to practice the technique you learned on the black keys

#4💜Johnny Bill by Oliver Manice

  1. Try to play the melody of the chorus on the piano for your next lesson.

#5🖤THEORY Level 1

  1. Finish reviewing unit 2 with Dustin at the lesson

Review List!

Once a week, review the following piece with your music.

  1. 💚What’s That Noise? By Martha Mier (b. 1936)

  2. 💚Barefoot on the Beach by Anne Crosby Gaudet (b. 1968)