June 20, 2025 (Lesson 7 of 8)

Lesson Assignments

Focus Tracker: 💚💚💛💛💚💛💜❤️💚💚💜❤️💚💜

❤️= 4 POINTS

💚= 3 POINTS

💛= 2 POINTS

💜= 1 POINT

🖤= 0 POINTS

🎨 Color-Focus Practice (NFPER)

At the top of your music, write NFPER using the following color system:

• N – Notes – correct pitches and accidentals (🟦 Blue)

• F – Fingering – consistent, effective finger choices (🟧 Orange)

• P – Position – hand shape, posture, and keyboard geography (🟪 Purple)

• E – Expression – phrasing, dynamics, articulation, tone, etc. (🟩 Green)

• R – Rhythm – steady pulse, accurate timing, and rests (🟥 Red)

✅ If you're only recording audio, just use NER.

Step-by-Step Practice Flow

1. Record your section once — video is best, but audio is fine too.

2. Listen back with one color/goal in mind.

3. As you listen, mark your music using that color anywhere it needs improvement.

4. Repeat for each remaining color, one at a time, until all five have been addressed.

5. Choose a small “spot” section from your markings — just a few measures or a tricky passage.

“Spot” until it’s solid — meaning:

• ✅ 3 times in a row correctly, or

• ✅ 5 total correct repetitions, then move on.

1. Focus on one or two colors at a time while practicing that spot.

2. Use the troubleshooting checklist below if you're stuck.

🔧 Troubleshooting Tips

🎯 If you’ve tried to fix something three times in-a-row and it’s still not working, don’t just repeat it — troubleshoot:

• Do you need to slow down?

• Should you practice hands alone?

• Could you make the spot even smaller?

• Would technical exercises help (staccato, accents, etc.)?

• Do you need to think ahead more clearly?💛Theory Level 1

Prepare Unit 5, pages 53-58

🖤Rhythms

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

1. Notes✅

2. Fingering💛

   1. Careful of mm. 18-20 RH.

3. Position

   1. Be careful of pushing to long into the keys after you play them. Think - keep wrist in-motion and come off the keys sooner (this is for LH chords).

4. Expression💛

5. Rhythm💛

   1. Don’t worry about practicing with a steady beat.

💚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✅

4. Expression💛

   1. Focus more on softs and accents

5. Rhythm✅

   1. Practice with m.m. 80 and 86

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

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

💜💚Four Star 01_00_02

1. Prepare Review Set 2

2. Please remember to play legato when there is a slur in your sight-reading examples.

💚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. Measures 5-6

         1. RH - strong melody

         2. LH - quiet

         3. HT - play as above.

         4. Repeat three times.

   5. Rhythm💛

      1. Measure 1:

         1. Hands in lap

         2. tap one measure of the beat

         3. ta 8th notes

         4. Then play. Remember no swing for the first two 8ths.

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