April 10 & 17, 2024

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Practice Guide Legend

  1. ❤️= Priority assignment - wasn’t prepared properly or prepared at all.

  2. 💛= Second Priority - on the right track but needs more attention.

  3. 💜= We didn’t get to it and will do it at the next lesson

  4. 💚= On the right track. Do these assignments after the colors above.

  5. 🖤= Don’t do this assignment. On pause.

PLEASE READ THE ASSIGNMENT

  1. May 19, 2024: Final Recital: 3 pm:

    1. Rhyme Time

    2. Ukranian Folk Song

    3. Mist

    4. Ecossaise

  2. RCM Level 1 Assessment: May 29, 2024: 4:54 pm

    1. List A: Ukranian Folk Song

    2. List B: Mist

    3. List C: The Snake

    4. Etude: Celebration

  3. 💚Ecossaise by Beethoven (L. 2, A)

    1. Fix any pauses between measures 12-14

    2. When you return back to the beginning make sure it’s SOFT.

    3. Fix RH wrist and finger position (

    4. ❤️Measures 10 and 12: keep your left hand staccato for all the notes. Practice this three times correctly each practice session.

    5. ❤️“D. C. al Fine” (Da Capo) go back to the beginning and finish at the “Fine” marking.

    6. Practice starting from any measure of the piece once per practice session.

  4. 💚Technical Requirements for Piano: Level 1

    1. Assignment:

      1. Scales: Prepare all the scales on pages 5-6

      2. Tonic Traids: Broken and Solid: PRACTICE WITH THE VIDEO I SENT TO YOUR TEXT THREAD

        1. Prepare all the triads on pages 10-12

        2. See your pencil notes about position and notes.

        3. Don’t hold on to the notes after you play them, but use a rotating wrist to play legato.

  5. 💚Mist by Clifford Pool (L. 1, B)

    1. Assignment:

      1. No faster than m.m. 88

      2. Reprint your music from Newzik and see all of the new markings.

  6. 💚Four Star: Sight-reading & Ear Tests Level 2

    1. Assignment:

      1. Prepare “Review Set 2”

  7. 💚Celebrate Theory: Level 2

    1. Print and prepare Unit 1

  8. 💚Rhyme Time (L. 2, B)

    1. Hands Together:

      1. Two measures at a time.

      2. Hands alone first

      3. 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.

      4. THEN when you can step 3 above, start to add a steady beat but please keep it SLOW.

  9. 💜The Snake (L. 1, C)

    1. Assignment:

      1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece. Test on this next week.

      2. Slow down a bit more over the last two measures of the piece.

  10. 💜Ukrainian Folk Song by Beethoven (L. 1, A)

    1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece - ONCE EVERY PRACTICE SESSION.

    2. Be able to play for at a least measures from your starting point

    3. Play through once a day at a medium tempo m.m. 80 per quarter note.

    4. Then as many times as you like at m.m. 132 per quarter note.

  11. 💜Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. Etude)

    1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece - ONCE EVERY PRACTICE SESSION.

    2. Be able to play for at a least measures from your starting point

  12. 💜Level 2 C next week if Rhyme Time is one.

  13. 🖤Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist No. 3

    1. Assignment:

      1. Transpose to F Major and play INSIDE the black before 5th or 1st fingers play on F-sharp.

      2. Fingers never leaving the surface of the keys.

      3. Close-loud once each day.

    2. Method:

      1. Strong attack on each note, then immediately relax.

      2. Pop the wrist up slightly on each attack.

      3. Don’t slide on the keys.

      4. One time through each day.