April 18, 2025 (Lesson 8 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

Recital 🎹💚Raptors by Kevin Olson (Prep. B)

  1. measures 1-8, 8-16, 16-21, 21-End

    1. With and without music, two times each.

  2. ❤️Don’t rush in the last two measures of the piece.

  3. Practice 9-13 and 25-28 back to back. With and without the music.

Recital 🎹💚Far Away by Teresa Richert (L. 1 Etude)

  1. Pedal change between the last two measures. Make it smooth!

  2. With and without music, one line at a time.

Recital 🎹💚Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)

  1. Speed-building

    1. Practice the entire piece (or in chunks if needed) at m.m. 63, 66, 69, 72, and 76

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

💜Looking-Glass River by Nancy & Randall Faber (Prep. B)

  1. 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)

  1. 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.

  1. The Lively Boy (Prep A)

  2. Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)

  3. Curious Cat

  4. Marching by Kabalevsky