March 15, 2025 (Lesson 3 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

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)

  1. “Right Left I don’t want to do this exercises”

    1. Slowly playing RH with strength, then LH with soft dynamic. Gradually move them closer together until they are playing together.

#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.

Sightplaying:

#4💚SIGHT-READING Level 1

Do at least 1 per day.

Continue from page 55, 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)

I added dynamics markings in orange

LH crescendo / decrescendo only

mm. 9-12, no faster than m.m. 50 - focus on RH quiet.

#6💚Raptors by Kevin Olson (Prep. B)

Practice with m.m. 144

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.

  1. The Lively Boy (Prep A)

  2. Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)

  3. Curious Cat

  4. Marching by Kabalevsky