February 15, 2025 (Lesson 8 of 8)

Lesson Assignments

Focus Tracker: 💚

❤️= 4 POINTS

💚= 3 POINTS

💛= 2 POINTS

💜= 1 POINT

🖤= 0 POINTS

#1🖤Theory Level 1

Prepare Unit 4

#2🖤Rhythms

Compose No. 36

Use quarter notes and rests.

Use ties

Use half notes.

Use dotted half note

#1💚Looking-Glass River by Nancy & Randall Faber (Prep. B)

  1. Measures 3, 7, 15: keep wrist up when you play your thumb (red highlights)

  2. Continue to work on removing the pause between measures 1-2, 4-5, and 13-14 (yellow)

#2💚Royal Conservatory of Music Technique: Prep Level B

See the blue highlights and new video for broken chords

#3💚Four Star Prep B

Prepare Set 4

Clapback: Practice with the tests

Playbacks: Identify tonic or mediant and the movement of two notes.

#4💜SIGHT-READING Level 1

Do at least 1 per day.

Continue from page 33., Start the metronome to hear a steady beat, then you can turn it off (66 per quarter note).

#5💚New Shoes by Linda Niamath (Prep B)

Review with your music once per practice session

#6💚Raptors by Kevin Olson (Prep. B)

Measures 6, 10, 22, and 26: Drop the wrist so that its position is below the white keys, and pop up at the end of the slur.

Lear the rest of the piece!

REVIEW LIST

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

  1. The Lively Boy (Prep A)

  2. Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)

  3. The Haunted Mouse

  4. Curious Cat

  5. Marching by Kabalevsky