June 5, 2025 (no-show)

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

💚Haydn German Dance in D Major

  1. Three things to do for next lesson:

    1. NO FASTER THAN M.M. 80 PER QUARTER NOTE

    2. GOOD DYNAMICS: Make the “mp” much softer. I’d like to hear a huge contrast between the louds and softs of the piece. Make it sound more like “p”

    3. DETACH LEFT HAND NOTES that are NOT in under slurs.

💛Four Star

  1. Finish Review Set 1 and Prepare Review Set 2

    1. Follow the practice video in Newzik. Do one “day” per practice session

💚Technique

  1. Study and memorize the information (pattern of the major and minor scales) on page 2 of the PDF

  2. Practice C Major and A Minor, hands alone on page 5 of the PDF.

💚Angelfish by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 1, List B)

  1. Review. Don’t spend much time on this.

❤️The Snake by Renée Christopher (L. 1, List C)

  1. Keep a good sitting position.

  2. Learn hands alone to the end of the piece. The goal is to play slowly and with bubble - wrist above keys.

  3. Learn hands togehter!

  4. Right Hand: be careful of the fingering change between measure 10 and 11

  5. Left Hand: double check fingering and notes between measures 7 and 8.

💚Gavotte by Handel

  1. Review once a week. But don’t spend much time on this.

  2. Practice starting from three random measures once a week.

💜The Piano Man

🖤”LET’S GO BACK”

  1. See the new PDF in Newzik called “Let’s Go Back V1”

  2. Practice what’s written and propose any changes to the melody or lyrics.

  3. Start thinking about a melody and lyrics for the verses

🖤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)