February 19, 2025

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Newzik Account

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Password: Studnet577

Lesson Blog

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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

Link to note-reading game

  1. 💚Gentle Breezes by Dennis Alexander

  2. Start to learn hands alone and together four measures at a time

  1. 💛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

  2. 💚Celebrate Theory: Level 2 Unit 4

    1. Memorize all info on page 34

  3. 💚Basic Rhythmic Training

    1. Prepare exercises nos. 65 and 66

  4. 💚Sight Reading Piano Adventures: 2B (iPad or laptop needed for this assignment)

    1. Sight-read one “day” per practice session.

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

    3. This is found in Newzik under “sightreading_2B”

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

    1. Take small chunks at a time and do RH, LH, HT then set a metronome to weed out any pauses.

    2. Our next goal with this piece is to play it with a steady beat.

      1. Entire piece, no faster than 76 per quarter note.

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

    1. Measures 19-21 - fix rhythm issues (8th notes - think two 16th notes)

    2. Measures 22-23 - fix LH notes

    3. Measure 24 - fix RH F-sharp

    4. Measures 15 - 33 - work on eliminating any pauses.

      1. Do this by doing chunks of spotting practice and gradually increase the size of the chunk.

      2. Make sure to do hands alone then together, three times in-a-row correctly for each chunk.

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