Lesson Assignments
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❤️= 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 🎹💚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.
READ AFTER YOU PLAY
Christopher Norton is known for blending classical technique with popular and jazz styles, creating music that's both sophisticated and approachable.
A Summer Day captures the gentle warmth and easy rhythm of a quiet afternoon — relaxed, melodic, and just a little nostalgic.
Recital 🎹💚Far Away by Teresa Richert (L. 1 Etude)
Pedal change between the last two measures. Make it smooth!
With and without music, one line at a time.
READ AFTER YOU PLAY
This story begins as a peaceful day on the lake — still water and soft light. You dive in, but something moves beneath you!!! A shimmering angelfish appears — it’s graceful, but maybe not so friendly… Just as it circles closer, a mermaid appears and plays a haunting melody that sends the angelfish fleeing!!! She leads you to an ancient underwater kingdom… until everything blurs, and then suddenly, you wake up - unsure if it was all just a dream.
Recital 🎹💚Raptors by Kevin Olson (Prep. B)
measures 1-8, 8-16, 16-21, 21-End
With and without music, two times each.
❤️Don’t rush in the last two measures of the piece.
Practice 9-13 and 25-28 back to back. With and without the music.
READ AFTER YOU PLAY
Tchaikovsky wrote his Album for the Young to give children music that was both beautiful and educational. The “Italian Song” is light and lyrical, capturing the sound of folk music from a distant land.
💜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.
See the new audio in Newzik for measure 13 practice.
💛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