March 22, 2025 (Lesson 4 of 8)

Lesson Assignments

Focus Tracker: πŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’›πŸ’›πŸ’š

❀️= 4 POINTS

πŸ’š= 3 POINTS

πŸ’›= 2 POINTS

πŸ’œ= 1 POINT

πŸ–€= 0 POINTS

#1πŸ–€Theory Level 1

Prepare Unit 4

#2πŸ–€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)

🎹#1πŸ˜ŽπŸ’šFar Away by Teresa Richert (L. 1 Etude)

  1. See orange markings.

  2. Come up with a short story about this piece so we can read it in the recital.

🎹#1πŸ’šLooking-Glass River by Nancy & Randall Faber (Prep. B)

  1. β€œRight 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.

#2πŸ’šRoyal 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.

#3πŸ’šFour Star Prep B

Prepare Set 6

Clapback: Practice with the tests

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

Sightplaying:

#4πŸ’œSIGHT-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).

#5πŸ’šNew Shoes by Linda Niamath (Prep B)

Steady beat from measures 13 to the end.

🎹#6πŸ’šRaptors 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

🎹#7πŸ’šLeaping 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.

  1. The Lively Boy (Prep A)

  2. Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)

  3. Curious Cat

  4. Marching by Kabalevsky