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❤️= Priority assignment - wasn’t prepared properly or prepared at all.
💛= Second Priority - on the right track but needs more attention.
💜= We didn’t get to it and will do it at the next lesson
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🖤= Don’t do this assignment. On pause.
PLEASE READ THE ASSIGNMENT
May 19, 2024: Final Recital: 3 pm:
Rhyme Time
Ukranian Folk Song
Mist
Ecossaise
RCM Level 1 Assessment: May 29, 2024: 4:54 pm
List A: Ukranian Folk Song
List B: Mist
List C: The Snake
Etude: Celebration
💚Ecossaise by Beethoven (L. 2, A)
Fix any pauses between measures 12-14
When you return back to the beginning make sure it’s SOFT.
Fix RH wrist and finger position (
❤️Measures 10 and 12: keep your left hand staccato for all the notes. Practice this three times correctly each practice session.
❤️“D. C. al Fine” (Da Capo) go back to the beginning and finish at the “Fine” marking.
Practice starting from any measure of the piece once per practice session.
💚Technical Requirements for Piano: Level 1
Assignment:
Scales: Prepare all the scales on pages 5-6
Tonic Traids: Broken and Solid: PRACTICE WITH THE VIDEO I SENT TO YOUR TEXT THREAD
Prepare all the triads on pages 10-12
See your pencil notes about position and notes.
Don’t hold on to the notes after you play them, but use a rotating wrist to play legato.
💚Mist by Clifford Pool (L. 1, B)
Assignment:
No faster than m.m. 88
Reprint your music from Newzik and see all of the new markings.
💚Four Star: Sight-reading & Ear Tests Level 2
Assignment:
Prepare “Review Set 2”
💚Celebrate Theory: Level 2
Print and prepare Unit 1
💚Rhyme Time (L. 2, B)
Hands Together:
Two measures at a time.
Hands alone first
Then hands together, one note at a time until you KNOW that the notes and fingering are correct. DON’T KEEP A STEADY BEAT. Notes and fingering are most important.
THEN when you can step 3 above, start to add a steady beat but please keep it SLOW.
💜The Snake (L. 1, C)
Assignment:
Practice starting from any measure of the piece. Test on this next week.
Slow down a bit more over the last two measures of the piece.
💜Ukrainian Folk Song by Beethoven (L. 1, A)
Practice starting from any measure of the piece - ONCE EVERY PRACTICE SESSION.
Be able to play for at a least measures from your starting point
Play through once a day at a medium tempo m.m. 80 per quarter note.
Then as many times as you like at m.m. 132 per quarter note.
💜Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. Etude)
Practice starting from any measure of the piece - ONCE EVERY PRACTICE SESSION.
Be able to play for at a least measures from your starting point
💜Level 2 C next week if Rhyme Time is one.
🖤Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist No. 3
Assignment:
Transpose to F Major and play INSIDE the black before 5th or 1st fingers play on F-sharp.
Fingers never leaving the surface of the keys.
Close-loud once each day.
Method:
Strong attack on each note, then immediately relax.
Pop the wrist up slightly on each attack.
Don’t slide on the keys.
One time through each day.