2019-2020 - Lesson 4 of 16

2019-2020 Private Lesson Enrollment: Semester

Lesson Assignments:

TECHNIQUE:

  1. Hanon No. 1

    1. HANDS TOGETHER: Ascending and descending:

      1. CLOSE LOUD

        1. Attack the key with a forward wrist and round finger

        2. Immediately release your energy and relax your wrist and arm.

        3. All notes are legato.

      2. LEGATO

        1. Set metronome to 44 = two notes per tic

        2. ta four notes before you begin

        3. play with the metronome.

        4. Fingers stay close to the keys and fingers round

READING:

  1. Piano Adventures: Sightreading Book: Level 1

    1. Sightread one “day” per practice session.

    2. place a tally mark above the exercise after you have played through once.

    3. don’t stop once you’ve started

    4. continue to tally your tries until you have it played correctly

  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: pages 35

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. Sight Singing

    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. Ear Training - with Dustin

    1. Up 2nds, 3rds

  3. Rhythm

    1. WITH DUSTIN: No. 38

      1. Learn 5/4 conducting

  4. Solfege

    1. Prepare No. 6 on page 17

    2. ***Prepare No. 8 and 10 on page 18

      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.

REPERTOIRE:

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

    1. Start to learn with NFRPE hands alone

  2. Cuckoo

    1. Hands Together

      1. fix all pink pen

      2. when RH lifts at the end of a phrase, LH stays legato / connected.

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