2019-2020 - Lesson 6 of 16

2019-2020 Private Lesson Enrollment: Semester

Lesson Assignments:

Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program:

  1. Prep A or B: Spring

TECHNIQUE:

  1. Hanon No. 2

    1. HANDS ALONE:

      1. SAY THE NAMES OF THE NOTES FIRST. Don’t look at the keyboard. Then play.

      2. Three measures each day in each hand.

READING:

  1. Piano Adventures: Sightreading Book: Level 1

    1. Staccato = pop your wrists forward on these notes and keep fingers close to the keys.

    2. Long notes = roll wrists forward.

  2. Solos 1

    1. No assignment

  3. *Lesson & Musicianship 1B

    1. PLEASE ORDER THIS BOOK

    2. https://www.amazon.com/Celebrate-Piano-Lesson-Musicianship-1B/dp/0887978193

THEORY

  1. Celebrate Theory: Level 1

    1. PREPARE: page 36

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. Ear Training

    1. 2nds and 3rds (steps and skips)

      1. Play C on the keyboard and match the pitch with your voice.

      2. Sing and play up and down 2nds and 3rds, matching the pitch with your voice.

      3. Just sing up and down 2nds and 3rds. Use the keyboard for help if you need it.

  2. Rhythm (no assignment)

    1. WITH DUSTIN: No. 38

      1. Learn 5/4 conducting

  3. Solfege (rotate with Rhythm)

    1. Prepare No. 9 and 11 on page 18 and 19

      1. Set metronome to m.m. 40 and say and play the syllables with the metronome.

      2. If you make a mistake, move ON! Don’t correct it.

      3. Use finger 2. It needs to be rounded / curved.

  4. Modus Vetus

    1. Start with Dustin after learning scales

REPERTOIRE: (weekly)

  1. Marching Op. 39 No. 3 by Dmitri Kabalevsky

    1. Practice hands alone then together, SLOWLY, two measures at a time.

    2. Dovetail your two measures.

REVIEW

  1. Cuckoo

    1. Once a week with your music.