March 28, 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

Final Recital / Video Project

  • Rhyme Time by Elissa Milne (b. 1967)

  • Gentle Breezes by Dennis Alexander (b. 1947)

  • Italian Song by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

  • Gavotte from French Suite No. 5 in G Major by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

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

💚Rhyme Time (L. 2, B)

  1. Goal: hands alone and together, once a day. But spot measures 24 to the end (3 x’s each alone and together).

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

  1. Goal: Correct rhythm

    1. Work on expression / contrast in dynamics.

    2. ❤️measures 14-16 - don’t change the tempo when your LH comes in at m. 15. Watch / practice with the new video I texted to your thread.

  2. Goal: Be able to start from any measure

    1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece, 3 times time

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

  1. Page 1 Goal:

    Expression focus. See the dynamics.

    💛Spot measures 30-32 so there are no pauses. Hands alone practice and hands together.

  2. ❤️Page 2 Goal:

    Two new measures per day (10 total) and review each day what you’ve learned previously.

    1. HANDS ALONE:

      1. Start with a focus of NOTES & FINGERING only.

        1. Three times correctly each hand alone

      2. Add EXPRESSION & POSITION

        1. Three times correctly each hand alone

      3. Add the correct RHYTHM

        1. Three times correctly each hand alone

    2. HANDS TOGETHER:

      1. Same steps as above!

💚Gentle Breezes by Dennis Alexander

  1. Ta and conduct the rhythms of measure 5, then play with the correct rhythm. Remember you’ll need lots of repetition with this to correct it.

  2. Remember all B-flats

  3. Learn measures 13-16 and 27-32

  4. Goal: be finished April 16th

💛Italian Song by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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

  2. Measures 41-43 and 25-28 - practice with raised RH wrists.

  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”


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: Celebratio