December 15, 2025

Performance Roulette

  1. Wait for details from Dustin

Lesson Point System: Starting in January

  1. One point for each video submission.

  2. For example 4 practice videos with three required submissions per week = 12 video submission

  3. Grade = number of video submissions before the next lesson.

Album for the Young, Op. 39, No. 1. Morning Prayer Pytor Tchaikovsky

  1. Send me a video of the entire piece by Friday

ASSIGNMENTS ON HOLD

TECHNIQUE Level 3 - see page 7

  1. Minimum 5 practice days a week.

  2. We spent 10 min on two scales.

    1. Do these hands alone first.

      1. Notes & Fingering 3 times in-a-row correctly, forgetting about keeping a steady beat. Don’t go on to the next note until you KNOW that it’s going to be correct.

      2. Then do the same thing hands together.

      3. Only then should you move on to playing these with a steady beat.


Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5, no. 1. II. Romanze (L. 3, B)

  1. Notes

    1. Measures 34 to the end, hands alone then together, very slowly, with music, every day. Three times.

    2. Please double check the notes in red and blue

  2. Fingering

  3. Position

  4. Expression

  5. Rhythm

    1. Play with the metronome and the music, no faster than m.m. 60


Musette in D Major BWV Anh. 125 by J. S. Bach (L. 3, A)

  1. Whole piece, hands alone and hands together. Careful to read your notes.


Four Star Level 3

  1. Prepare Set 1

  2. Sight-reading preparation method:

    1. Study the rhythm in your mind - actually play the rhythm in your mind as an abstract exercise (think about clap-back exercises). What is the time signature? What is the shortest note-value?

    2. Notes and fingering. Look at the key signature. Observe intervals - the distance between the notes.

    3. Choose a slow tempo and start to play with a steady beat - don’t stop once you start. Move forward if you make mistakes.


#🖤Arabesque, op. 100 no. 2 by Johann Friedrich Burgmuller (L. 3, Etude)

#🖤In the Spirit by Christopher Norton (L. 3, Etude)

#🖤Etude in D Minor op. 261 no. 53 (L. 3, Etude)



🖤Theory Level 1 (5 MINUTES A DAY)

  1. Complete all of Unit 5 over the next two weeks.

🖤GO TO YOUR PDF SIGHT-READING 00 62-95

  1. Prepare pages 26-29


Review the following pieces as you wish!

  1. Allegro in C Major op. 38, no. 8 by Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747-1822)(L. 2, Etude)

  2. I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

  3. Ecossaise in G Major WoO 23 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 2, A)

  4. 💚Etude in C Major, op. 125 no. 3 by Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) (L. 1, Etude)

  5. 💚Teapot Invention by Andrew Markow (1942-2013) (L. 1, C)

  6. 💚I Want it That Way

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

  8. Clear Mountain Sky by Mike Springer (L. 1, B)

  9. Foggy Beach (Prep. B)

  10. Oranges and Lemons by Boris Berlin (Prep. B)

    1. IN MEASURE 9, DON’T FORGET THAT THERE IS A POSITION CHANGE!

  11. Distant Chimes (expired Prep. B)

  12. 💚Calico Cat Helen Marlais

  13. Duet - Jingle Bells (Non-RCM)

  14. 💚Turkish March (Non-RCM)



JANUARY 11, 2025 - REMOTE

Exam Repertoire

  • Ecossaise in G Major WoO 23 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 2, A)

  • I Spy by Melody Bober (L. 2, B)

  • Breezy by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2, C)

  • Allegro in C Major op. 38, no. 8 by Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747-1822) (L. 2, Etude