🟢 - 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.
PLEASE START YOUR PRACTICE WITH THE RED 🔴 ITEMS FIRST, THEN PURPLE🟣, THEN YELLOW 🟡, FOLLOWED BY GREEN 🟢
Lesson Assignments
Play through the whole program as if you were at the recital.
(3)Minuetto Op. 37 Lesson 2 by James Hook
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Under “HOOK JAMES MINUETTO” in Newzik:
measures 13-End
RH 3 times correctly at m.m. 60
LH 3 times correctly at m.m. 60
HT 3 times correctly at m.m. 60
Practice starting from the following measures by looking at your music first, then putting it away:
Use your musical jar!
Practice playing through from beginning to end, three times each practice session with:
m.m. 66
m.m. 72
m.m. 80
(1)Freddie the Frog
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Use m.m. 96 per quarter note to play through with your music. Then turn off the metronome and play through without your music.
Use your glass jar with the measure numbers to start anywhere in the piece.
(2)Let’s Waltz
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Practice starting from any measure of the piece. “Musical Jars”
Every practice session, choose three different cards and practice starting from the measure on the card.
REMEMBER TO READ THE NOTES IN THE MUSIC IN ORDER TO START ON THAT NUMBER.
This week’s focus is RHYTHM - FIND A STEADY BEAT IN YOUR HEAD BEFORE YOU BEGIN.
SIGHTREADING 62-92 DEF
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Do pages 1-7 of the PDF
SET A METRONOME TO 60 PER QUARTER NOTE
STUDY THE TIME SIGNATURE
DO THE RHYTHM IN YOUR HEAD
THEN STUDY THE NOTE NAMES IN YOUR HEAD AND THE DIRECTION OF THE NOTES
THEN PLAY WITH A STEADY SLOW BEAT.
KEEP YOUR WRISTS UP
DOUBLE CHECK THAT YOU’RE GIVING EACH HALF NOTE TWO BEATS! 🥸
Theory in Newzik
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GO TO YOUR PDF “THEORY 00 04 The Grand Staff”
Prepare pages 1-3