May 10, 2025 (Lesson 2 of 8)

Lesson Assignments

Focus Tracker: ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’œ

โค๏ธ= 4 POINTS

๐Ÿ’š= 3 POINTS

๐Ÿ’›= 2 POINTS

๐Ÿ’œ= 1 POINT

๐Ÿ–ค= 0 POINTS

#1๐Ÿ–คTheory Level 1

Prepare Unit 4

#2๐Ÿ–คRhythms

Compose No. 36

Use quarter notes and rests.

Use ties

Use half notes.

Use dotted half note

๐Ÿ’šLeaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)

  1. Focus on expression.

๐Ÿ’šNew Shoes by Linda Niamath (Prep B)

  1. Focus on expression.

๐Ÿ’šRaptors by Kevin Olson (Prep. B)

  1. Focus on expression.

๐Ÿ’œLooking-Glass River by Nancy & Randall Faber (Prep. B)

  1. Review until after April 27th.

๐Ÿ’šRoyal Conservatory of Music Technique: Prep Level B

Rotate through everythig. Five min a day.

Focus on hand position, round fingerins.

๐Ÿ’šThis Guyโ€™s Disguised by Bradley Sowash (L. 1, B)

  1. Measures 13-20: focus on round fingers - bubble hand. Fix fingering.

  2. Dynamics - ideally softer when it says p

๐Ÿ’šFar 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.

๐Ÿ’›Musicianship / Four Star

Prepare Set 6 & 7

Clapback: Practice with the tests

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

๐Ÿ’›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).

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