Lesson Assignments
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💚= 3 POINTS
💛= 2 POINTS
💜= 1 POINT
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#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
Recital 🎹💚Raptors by Kevin Olson (Prep. B)
Please don’t rush the half notes in measures 4, 8, 12, 16, and 24
Don’t rush in the last two measures of the piece.
Practice starting from any measure of the piece (three times per practice session)
Recital BLURB - Revise or memorize:
Kevin Olson writes music for students that sounds like a movie soundtrack — dramatic, intense, and fun to play. “Raptors” is all about big birds of prey, and the music captures their power and sharp movement with bold rhythms and soaring melodies.
Recital 🎹💚Far Away by Teresa Richert (L. 1 Etude)
See the new video inside Newzik for the last measure of the piece.
💛Hold all half notes for their full value. (5, 10 and 14)
💛Measure 7 - don’t speed up past the original tempo
💛Gradually come off the keys with hands and foot at the end of the piece
Lest measure of the piece: RH rolled chord - keep wrist down until the last note of the rolled chord and keep fingers round.
Practice starting from any measure of the piece (three times per practice session)
Recital BLURB - Revise or memorize:
“Far Away” feels like a memory. Teresa Richert’s music often explores moods and places, and this one captures distance — not just physically, but emotionally. It’s soft, slow, and full of feeling.
Recital 🎹💚Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)
Speed-building
Practice the entire piece (or in chunks if needed) at m.m. 63, 66, 69, 72, and 76
Come off the keys and pedal gradually at the end of the piece.
Recital BLURB - Revise or memorize:
Barbara Arens is a German composer who loves nature and imagination. This piece captures the elegance of dolphins jumping through ocean waves. It’s playful, but calm— you can almost see the splashes.
💚Looking-Glass River by Nancy & Randall Faber (Prep. B)
Review until after April 27th.
💚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.
💚This Guy’s Disguised by Bradley Sowash (L. 1, B)
Measure three: see the two practice videos.
💛Four Star Prep B
Prepare Set 6
Clapback: Practice with the tests
Playbacks: Identify tonic or mediant and the movement of two notes.
Sightplaying:
💛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).
💚New Shoes by Linda Niamath (Prep B)
Memorize.
Keep steady beat at the end!
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.
The Lively Boy (Prep A)
Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)
Curious Cat
Marching by Kabalevsky