January 29, 2025

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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. 💜Dustin bring choices for down-tempo new piece (short)

2. 💜Italian Song by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

   1. No faster that m.m. 138 - practice ONCE with the metronome and once without.

   2. Practice starting from 3 different measures each practice session.

   3. Fix the LH C-sharp in measure 27

3. 💜Celebrate Theory: Level 2 Unit 3

   1. Complete page 32 with Dustin

   2. Remember that a whole rest hangs from line four (half way down) and a half rest sits on line three (halfway up).

4. 💚Basic Rhythmic Training

   1. Prepare exercises nos. 58 and 59

      1. Please watch the video I texted to your thread for help with this.

      2. “Throw” the hand down to a specific point to signify the beat. The swing back up should also be clear.

      3. Conduct one measure of silence.

5. 💜Sight Reading Piano Adventures: 2A (left off on page 78)

   1. Sight-read two “days” per practice session.

   2. SET THE METRONOME TO 60 AND DON’T GO ANY FASTER.

6. 💛Gavotte French suite no. 5 in G Major by J. S. Bach

   1. 💚Measures 20 to the end: (see three practice videos I texted to your thread)

      1. Do the two-measure / four-measure method (LH, RH, HT 3 x)

      2. Be careful of RH fingering in measure 21

      3. Be extra careful of RH fingering 22 & 23

         1. ⚠️SEND DUSTIN VIDEO BY MONDAY OF THE ABOVE ASSIGNMENT.

   2. 💚Measures 1-8, 9-12, 13-19:

      1. Review Practice: RH, LH, HT once through at metronome marking

         1. ⚠️Dustin will ask you to play any of these at next lesson

7. 💜Diabelli, Sonatina in G Major, Op. 151, No. 1: Rondo

   1. Hands alone, measures 15-17: Please fix 8th notes (full value - say “eighth note”) and staccato notes.

   2. Hands together, measures 15-24: One measure at a time, practice hands together, three times correctly. Gradually increase to more than one measure at a time.

   3. Learn measures 29-32 hands alone then together!

      1. ⚠️SEND DUSTIN VIDEO BY MONDAY OF THE ABOVE ASSIGNMENT.

Note Recognition Game Online

1. Goal by next lesson is at least 20 correct within 1 minute.

2. Play the note recognition game I texted to your thread three times each day. (3 minutes).

3. Settings:

   1. Grand Staff

   2. Note range high C to low C

   3. Key Signature: 1-3 sharps or flats.

   4. Challenge Mode 1 minute

REVIEW PIECES: once a week at a medium tempo with your music

💚Ecossaise by Beethoven (L. 2, A)

💚Rhyme Time (L. 2, B)

RCM Level 1 Assessment: May 29, 2024: 4:54 pm Score of 84

1. List A: Ukranian Folk Song

2. List B: Mist

3. List C: The Snake

4. Etude: Celebration