March 22, 2025 (Lesson 5 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

💚This Guy’s Disguised by Bradley Sowash (L. 1, B)

🎹#1💚Far 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.

  3. Measure 6 - hold the fermata longer

  4. Hold all half notes for their full value. (5, 6, 10 and 14)

  5. Measure 7 - don’t speed up past the original tempo

  6. Gradually come off the keys with hands and foot at the end of the piece

🎹#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

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)

Memorize.

Keep steady beat at the end!

🎹#6💚Raptors by Kevin Olson (Prep. B)

Measures 28-29 - drop into the keys (LH) from above the keyboard.

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

Come off the keys and pedal gradually at the end of the piece.

The third beat of each measure is often cut short. When you get to beat three, count “three and”

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)

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)

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