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
Minuet in D Major by Leopold Mozart (L. 1, List A)
Ukrainian Folk Song, Op. 107, No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven (L. 1, List A)
Lunar Eclipse by Nancy & Randall Faber (L. 1,, B)
This Guy’s Disguised by Bradley Sowash (L. 1, B)
Mary Had a Little Lamb by English nursery rhyme arr. Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee (L. 1, C)
Melody in F Major op. 218, no. 36 by Christian Louis Heinrich Kohler (L. 1, Etude)
Far Away by Teresa Richert (L. 1 Etude)
#1💚Looking-Glass River by Nancy & Randall Faber (Prep. B)
See the new markings in the music.
Use the metronome now and don’t play faster than 72 per quarter note.
System three: RH 8th notes - try not to let any note stick out above the other. Keep firm fingertips and use your wrist to move from one note to the other.
#2💚Royal Conservatory of Music Technique: Prep Level B
See the blue highlights and new video for broken chords
Remember in First inversion RH use finger 2 for broken chors.
#3💜Four Star Prep B
Prepare Set 5
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)
Measures 3 and 7: RH poke the keys from above the keyboard. When you play beat 4 (5th finger in RH) create a stick finger so you don’t being the balance of the hand to the right.
#6💚Raptors by Kevin Olson (Prep. B)
Measure 19: “moon walk” “rainbow wrists”
Any other time you come off the keys after playing staccato, keep the arms in-motion “noodle arms”
REVIEW LIST
Review the pieces on this list, with your music, one time each week.
The Lively Boy (Prep A)
Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)
Curious Cat
Marching by Kabalevsky