January 9, 2025 (60 min virtual)

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 (15-20 min)

  1. Please see the 6 steps in your “layers” and complete them each day until your next lesson.

  2. Review the material that you’ve already learned. Hands alone and hands together just once per day.

#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.

#3💚Sightreading_2A (MAX 5-8)

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

  2. Complete at least page 4

  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)