April 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

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

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

  1. RECITAL PRACTICE EVERY DAY

    1. SLOW PRACTICE:

      1. LH alone, RH alone, HT, THREE TIMES EACH, EACH DAY. in two sections: Measures 1-12 and 12 to the end.

      2. No faster than m.m. 80 per 8th note

      3. Remember to play strong into the keys for muscle memory practice

    2. MEDIUM PRACTICE:

      1. Hands together In two sections:

        1. measures. 1-12, and 12 to the end.

      2. For each section, correctly at m.m. 66, 72, and 76 per quarter note,

    3. FINAL TEMPO PRACTICE:

      1. Entire piece through at m.m. 100, 104 and 108

      2. Practice starting from 3 random measures each practice session

🎹💚Italian Song by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  1. LEFT HAND LESS BOSSY. Keep it quiet - tiptoe around!

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

  3. Practice starting from any measure of the piece, 5 times each day.

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

  1. Review page 1 so you don’t forget it!

  2. Remember how we practiced Gavotte? RH ,LH, and HT - do this here for each section on the 2nd page in Diabelli.

💚Gentle Breezes by Dennis Alexander

  1. Keep reviewing page one, hands alone and together.

💚Rhyme Time (L. 2, B)

  1. Goal: hands alone and together, twice a week.

  2. But spot measures 24 to the end (3 x’s each alone and together).

💜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