October 4, 2021

🟢 - On the right track, great work!

🟡 - On the right track but it needs detailed attention.

🔴 - This was not prepared or it needs a lot of attention and focus this week.

⚫️ - No assignment this week. Do not practice this item.

🔵 - We didn’t get to this item but we may look at it next week.

Lesson Assignments

TECHNIQUE

  1. 🟢🟡HANON NO. 10

    1. C Major - m.m 72 per half note

      1. 🟢🟡Accent every 2nd note of 4 the pattern by throwing your wrists in the direction of the note.

      2. 🟡🔴This needs to be passed off with TIDY ATTACKS.

THEORY: Level 2

  1. 🟡🟡 Finish the last two pages of Unit 3

    1. Page 30, redraw the beats so they show exactly where the beats START.

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. ⚫️Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests: Level 2 Set 10 (on hold)

    1. Do 1 set a day.

      1. Anusha - Don’t go faster than m.m. 60 per quarter note.

      2. Squeaky - Take more time before you start.

    2. DON’T TOUCH THE KEYS BEFORE YOU BEGIN

    3. YOU MUST TAKE AT LEAST 30 SECONDS TO PREPARE FOR THIS IN YOUR MIND.

READING

  1. 🔵🟢Piano Adventures: Sightreading, Level 2B

    1. Move on from page 14. You’re doing well here!

    2. 🟢Please prepare silently in your mind for at LEAST 30 seconds before you begin any sightreading exercise.

REPERTOIRE

  1. 🟢Allegretto in C Major by Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748-1798) (L. 2, A)

    1. This is your new piece. But don’t worry about starting to learn it yet.

    2. Do the “till” exercise in the video below.

    3. There is a video of the full performance as well.

  2. 🟢🟡Funny Puppy by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 3, C)

    1. Pass next week with tidy attacks.

    2. Think about adding a group of eight 8th notes at a time with a goal of 100% tidy attacks.

  3. 🟢🔵Burgmuller, The Limpid Stream, Op. 100 No. 7 (non-RCM)

    1. 🦶Pedal🦶

      1. Catch the first note of the RH triplet in the pedal. Foot needs to go down faster.

    2. 🎤Section B Melody🎤

      1. We need to shape this. You start out loudly and stay loud. There’s no shape.

  4. 🟡🔵Clementi, Op. 36 No. 1, Movement 3 (L. 3, A)

    1. 👻Ghost Counter Game👻

      1. 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻

    2. 🎾 Tidy Attacks! 🎾

      1. 🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾🎾

    3. 🎶 Dynamics 🎶(/14)

      1. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

  5. Cornelius Gurlitt 1820-1901) Etude in D Minor, Op. 82 No. 65 (L. 2, Etude)

    1. Review

  6. Colored Windows by Edna Mae Burnam (L. 2, Etude)

    1. Review

  7. Feelin’ Good by Christopher Norton (L. 2, Etude)

    1. Review

  8. Etude in C Major Op 36 No. 22 by Alexander Gedike (L. 2, Etude)

    1. Review

  9. Burgmuller, Innocence. Op. 100 No. 5

    1. Review

  10. Ann Crosby-Gaudet, Periwinkle Twinkle (L. 2 B)

    1. Review

  11. German Dance in D Major Hob. IX:22, No. 2, Franz Joseph Haydn (L. 1, B)

    1. Review

  12. Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. 1, Etude)(recital)

    1. Review

  13. Etude in C Major by Félix Le Couppey (L. 1, Etude)

    1. Review

  14. Angelfish (L. 1B)

    1. Review

REPERTOIRE REVIEW LIST:

Review all pieces at least once a week with your music at a medium tempo

  1. Bartok, For Children, No. 1, Allegro

  2. Bartok, For Children, No. 3 Andante

  3. Burgmüller Op. 100 No. 2, L’Arabesque

  4. Leopold Mozart, Minuet in F Major

  5. A Song op. 36 No. 3 by Alexander Gedike (Prep B)

  6. Calico Cat