June 7, 2025 (Lesson 5 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

💜German Dance in D Major Hob. IX:22, no. 2 by Franz Jospeh Haydn (1732-1809) (L. 1, List A)

  1. Start with Dustin next lesson

💚RCM Technical Requirements: Level 1

  1. Study Page 3 of the PDF

  2. Prepare A Harmonic Minor and G Major on page 5 of the PDF

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

  1. Notes✅

  2. Fingering✅

  3. Position✅

    1. So much better! No sliding! Yay.

  4. Expression💛

    1. Focus on dynamics in measure 1, 5, 13, 21, and 23

  5. Rhythm💛

    1. Record yourself playing with m.m. 60

    2. Listen back and highlight any areas in which you stray from the beat.

    3. “Spot” those sections three to five times in one week.

  6. 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. Memorize the acronym NFPER

    1. Notes✅

    2. Fingering✅

    3. Position✅

    4. Expression💛

      1. Let’s hear a difference between the mf and the f in measures 1 and 5.

      2. When you play “forte,” immediately stop pushing into the keyboard but you can still keep the note down if needed.

    5. Rhythm💛

      1. You identified sections that need work by recording yourself with the metronome, then listening back with the goal of highlighting any problem areas.

      2. Then practice them hands alone and together with metronome (no faster than m.m. 60).

      3. Isolate BEAT 1 of measure 4 to teach your muscles how to lift in the LH and hold in the RH.

      4. Then add Beats 1 and 2

      5. Then the whole section!

      6. Work on measures 6 and 7 in the same manner if needed.

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.

💜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