February 26, 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

💚Gentle Breezes by Dennis Alexander

  1. Please connect your notes even though the pedal is down.

  2. Correct the rhythm in the LH in measure

  3. No larger than 4 measures at a time.

💜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

💜Celebrate Theory: Level 2 Unit 4

  1. Memorize all info on page 34

💜Basic Rhythmic Training

  1. Prepare exercises nos. 65 and 66

💜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”

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

  1. Measure 9 - careful of LH notes

  2. Measure 14-15 - please count / use a metronome for practice here.

  3. Please practice this piece in two-measure chunks, hands alone then hands together. Then combine into four-measures, then eight, etc.

  4. If you can’t do the entire piece in one practice session, please pick up from where you left off the previous day.

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

  1. ❤️Measures 19-21 - Give the 8th notes their full value. Think about holding them for two 16th notes.

  2. ❤️Measures 22-23 - fix LH notes (top note is not D)

  3. ❤️Measures 23-24 - fix fingering in RH and smooth out the transition.

  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.

❤️Rhyme Time (L. 2, B)

  1. Please have the first page relearned hands together with no pauses.

❤️Ecossaise by Beethoven (L. 2, A)

  1. First two systems hands together with no pauses.


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