May 23, 2025 (Lesson 4 of 8)

Lesson Assignments

Focus Tracker: 💚💚💛💛💚💛💜❤️💚💚💜

❤️= 4 POINTS

💚= 3 POINTS

💛= 2 POINTS

💜= 1 POINT

🖤= 0 POINTS

💚Theory Level 1

Prepare Unit 5, pages 1-4

🖤Rhythms

💚RCM Technical Requirements: Level 1

  1. Study Page 2 of the PDF

  2. Prepare C Major and A Minor Natural on page 5 of the PDF

💚This Guy’s Disguised by Bradley Sowash (L. 1, B)

  1. 💛Try your best to “plant” the fingers on the keys after you play them. You’re sometimes “pulling” or sliding toward your body on the keys. Special moments like this occur in measures 6 and 10

  2. Resume practice on this so that position is priority and get the notes back in your fingers.

💚Far Away by Teresa Richert (b. 1864) (L. 1 Etude)

  1. Review with and without music, once per week.

💚Four Star 01_00_01

Prepare Review Set 1

💚Minuet in D Major by Leopold Mozart (L. 1, List A)

  1. See the video inside Newzik

  2. Learn hands alone measures 1-8

Ukrainian Folk Song, Op. 107, No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven (L. 1, List A)

German Dance in D Major Hob. IX:22, no. 2 by Franz Jospeh Haydn (1732-1809) (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.

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

💚Raptors by Kevin Olson (Prep. B)

💚New Shoes by Linda Niamath (Prep B)

  1. The Lively Boy (Prep A)

  2. Leaping the Waves with Dolphins (Prep B)

  3. Curious Cat

  4. Marching by Kabalevsky