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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.

ASSIGNMENTS

  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. 💜Choose Level 2, Etude and C with Dustin

  4. 💚Playbacks: Level 1

    1. Practice with the audio in your text thread every practice session. Repeat the audio multiple days.

  5. 💚Celebration (L. 1, Etude)

    1. Recital Practice:

      1. Hands alone 8 measures at a time.

      2. Then hands together - all with music.

      3. Start at 3 random measures.

      4. Play through entire piece with music then without.

  6. 💚Ukrainian Folk Song (L. 1, A)

    1. Recital Practice:

      1. Hands alone 8 measures at a time.

      2. Then hands together - all with music.

      3. Start at 3 random measures.

      4. Play through entire piece with music then without.

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

    1. Recital Practice:

      1. Hands alone 8 measures at a time.

      2. Then hands together - all with music.

      3. Start at 3 random measures.

      4. Play through entire piece with music then without.

  8. 💚Technical Requirements for Piano: Level 1

    1. Assignment: Memorize all items. So practice with and without music.

      1. Rotate through all technical items - Ideally, once a day, but if this is too much, keep track of where you leave off and pick up from there the next day. Keep rotating to get through all of them as many times as possible per week.

  9. 💚Mist by Clifford Pool (L. 1, B)

    1. Recital Practice:

      1. Hands alone 8 measures at a time.

      2. Then hands together - all with music.

      3. Start at 3 random measures.

      4. Play through entire piece with music then without.

  10. 💚Rhyme Time (L. 2, B)

    1. Measure 2, 4 and 6 (and all measures alike). Print out new music if needed with my markings.

      1. LH keep it short

      2. RH don’t rush in the first beat

      3. Fix the rhythm in RH and LH when you have the tie in the RH.

    2. Measure 9

      1. LH staccato

      2. Slow down to practice this

    3. Measure 10

      1. LH no F-sharp

      2. Slow down to practice this

    4. Measures 11-12

      1. No C-sharp

    5. Measures 15-16

      1. LH staccato and chord HT staccato

    6. Measure 25

      1. Fix fingering and notes.

  11. 💚The Snake (L. 1, C)

    1. Recital Practice:

      1. Hands alone 8 measures at a time.

      2. Then hands together - all with music.

      3. Start at 3 random measures.

      4. Play through entire piece with music then without with metronome.

🖤Celebrate Theory: Level 2

  1. Print and prepare Unit 1

🖤Four Star: Sight-reading & Ear Tests Level 2

  1. Assignment:

    1. Prepare “Review Set 2”

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

    1. Play through LH and RH alone, no faster then m.m. 66 per quarter note, once a day.

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

    3. Play through with the audio I texted your piano text thread (YOU CAN PLAY THIS ON YOUR WATCH!)

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

  2. 💚Celebration by Anne Crosby-Gaudet (L. Etude)

    1. Practice once a day with m.m. 72 per quarter note.

    2. Make sure you’re pedaling with the ball of your foot and keep your heel on the floor.

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

    4. Practice with and without music.

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

  4. 🖤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.