Lesson Assignments
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💛= 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)
🎹#1😎💚Far Away by Teresa Richert (L. 1 Etude)
See orange markings.
Come up with a short story about this piece so we can read it in the recital.
🎹#1💚Looking-Glass River by Nancy & Randall Faber (Prep. B)
“Right Left I don’t want to do this exercises”
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
contrary motion - keep wrists up on finger 1.
#3💚Four Star Prep B
Prepare Set 6
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 64, 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)
Steady beat from measures 13 to the end.
🎹#6💚Raptors by Kevin Olson (Prep. B)
Both feet flat on the floor
When you have two-note slurs, drop the wrist into the first note and pop the wrist on the second (6, 10, 22 and 26)
Fix RH fingering in m. 11
🎹#7💚Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)
Review for the recital
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