November 18, 2024 (Lesson 4 of 8)

Lesson Assignments

1. 💚Rhythm (5/5)

   1. Prepare Nos. 25-26

   2. Compose No. 27 - (use quarter notes, half notes, ties, and rests).

   3. Watch the video about upbeats in 3/4 time

2. 💚Note Reading Game Online. (5/5)

   1. Play the 1-minute challenge in the treble clef and bass clef.

      • GAME 1: Treble clef: middle C to treble C

      • GAME 2: Treble clef: treble C to high C

      • GAME 3: Bass clef: middle C to bass C

      • GAME 4: Bass clef: bass C to low C

   2. Get at least 18 correct in under 1 min

3. 💚Theory Level 1, Unit 1

   1. Prepare Unit 1

4. 💚SIGHTREADING_00_38-45 (3/5) for first try. (5/5) second try.

   1. Continue to do at least one per day

   2. Practice with the metronome (60 per quarter note).

5. 💚Curious Cat (3/5)

   1. Amazing Daniel!

   2. Pop your wrists up a bit more on the staccato notes (sometimes your wrists stays down and fingers go up when you play staccato).

   3. Fix the blue highlights.

   4. Next week let’s focus on expression.

   5. This week’s focus: slurs, staccato, fingering, notes.

6. 💚Marching

   1. What is a flat? It lowers a note by one half step (tire gets flat!)

   2. What is a sharp? It raises a note by one half step (pointy object hits your tire)

   3. Key Signature = a group of sharps or flats at the beginning

   4. Register = how high or low

   5. C = common time = 4/4

7. 💜Start Technique Prep Level with Dustin next week

REVIEW LIST

Review the pieces on this list, with your music, one time each week.

1. The Haunted Mouse