May 23, 2025 (Lesson 3 of 8)

Lesson Assignments

Focus Tracker: πŸ’šπŸ’šπŸ’›πŸ’›πŸ’šπŸ’›πŸ’œπŸ’šβœ…

❀️= 4 POINTS

πŸ’š= 3 POINTS

πŸ’›= 2 POINTS

πŸ’œ= 1 POINT

πŸ–€= 0 POINTS

#1πŸ–€Theory Level 1

Prepare Unit 4

#2πŸ–€Rhythms

Compose No. 36

Use quarter notes and rests.

Use ties

Use half notes.

Use dotted half note

Three for the exam

πŸ’šLeaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)

  1. listen to the audio and expression at the end. 5 x per day.

πŸ’šNew Shoes by Linda Niamath (Prep B)

  1. dynamics and tell the story of your new shoes!

πŸ’šRaptors by Kevin Olson (Prep. B)

  1. Dynamics

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

  1. Review until after April 27th.

πŸ’šRoyal Conservatory of Music Technique: Prep Level B

Rotate through everythig. Five min a day.

Focus on hand position, round fingerins.

πŸ’šThis Guy’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

πŸ’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.

πŸ’›Musicianship / Four Star

Prepare Set 6 & 7

Clapback: Practice with the tests

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

πŸ’›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