August 16, 2021 (45 min)

2019-2020 Private Lesson Enrollment: Semester

RCMCP: July 22, 2021 Assessment.

  • List A: Johann Ludwig Krebs, Harlequinade, Suite No. 3 in E-flat Major (L. 3, A)

  • List B: Clementi

  • List C: Yoshinau Nakada, Song of the Twilight (L. 3, C)

  • Etude: Burgmüller, Op. 100 No. 2, l’Arabesque (L. 3, Etude)

  • Etude: Grill, Left Alone (L. 3, Etude)

Lesson Assignments

Technique - START YOUR PRACTICE WITH THIS

  1. Hanon No. 2 in C Major - work up to m.m. 63 per 8th note

    1. POSITION: keep rounder fingers (LH finger 4)

    2. EXPRESSION / RHYTHM: tidy attacks.

  2. Technical Requirements Level 3

    1. SCALES: gradually increase your speed to m.m. 80, two notes per tic. Don’t worry if you can’t quite make it to 80 next week.

      1. METHOD OF PRACTICE: 3 times in-a-row correctly for each scale.

    2. FORMULA PATTERN:

      1. TEMPO: build up to m.m. 80

    3. CHROMATIC:

      1. TEMPO: build up to m.m. 80

    4. *CHORDS:

      1. POSITION: careful not to twist your wrist when thumb is placed on a black key.

      2. FINGERING: double check your fingering in 1st and 2nd inversions.

Theory

  1. Celebrate Theory: Level 3, UNIT 6

    1. (Hold)

    2. Pick up from page with Dustin

    3. FIX PURPLE PEN

Musicianship

  1. Online Ear Training and Rhythm

    1. (Hold)

    2. Focus is CLAPBACKS

    3. https://moodle.rcmusic.com/lms/my/

      1. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

        1. Login Infoinfo@gledhillartscollective.com

        2. dust2789

  2. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

    1. (Hold)

    2. Prepare Set 9

    3. SIGHTREADING: SET METRONOME TO M.M. 40 AND KEEP WITH IT!!!

  3. Piano Adventures Sightreading Level 2B

    1. (Hold)

    2. Move on from page 37

      1. m.m. 40 - 60 no faster than this

      2. In your mind, clap and ta the rhythm before you start.

Repertoire

  1. Left Alone by Joyce Grill (L. 3 Etude)

    1. Review

  2. Nakada, The Song of Twilight (L. 3, C)

    1. Review

  3. Clementi Sonatina Op. 36 No. 1 in C Major - Movement 1 (L. 3, B)

    1. Finish speedbuilding practice chart

    2. See purple pen

    3. We are working on expression - also in the body and face!

  4. Johann Ludwig Krebs, Harlequinade, Suite No. 3 in E-flat Major (L. 3, A)

    1. Slow Work: For each four measures. RH, LH alone, then together:

      1. CLOSE LOUD: make sure each note (attack) has a STRONG and forward wrist attack. This should feel like work.

    2. Medium temo:

      1. For each four measures: choose a medium tempo and play each section three times in-a-row correctly.

    3. Final Tempo:

      1. for the entire piece;

  5. Burgmüller, Op. 100 No. 2, l’Arabesque (L. 3, Etude) (use your NEWZIK APP for this!)

    1. See blue pen.

      1. Close loud hands together LH, measures 11-16 - three times each day.

        1. Then at medium tempo and speed build to m,.m. 112

      2. Work up to m.m. 112 per quarter note

      3. expression is the priority this week - extreme expression.

  6. Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901)

    1. Review

  7. Invention in A Minor by Renée Christopher (L. 2, C)

    1. Reivew.

  8. Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) German Dance in B-flat Major Hob. IX:22 No. 5 (L. 2, A)

    1. Review

  9. Edna-Mae Burnam (1907-2007) Colored Windows (L. 2 Etude)

    1. REVIEW

  10. Alexander Gedike (1877-1957) Etude in C Major Op. 36 No. 22 (L. 2, Etude)

    1. REVIEW

  11. The Highlands by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2 Etude)

    1. REVIEW

Review Once a Week with your Music

CLASSICAL

  1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

    1. Minuet in F Major K. 2 by (L. 1, A)

CONTEMPORARY

  1. Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

    1. For Children, Book 1, No. 1 and 2 (L. 2, B)

  2. (recital) Etude in C Major by Felix le Coupey (L. 1 Etude)

  3. Skating Waltz

  4. Distant Chimes.

  5. Canon by Carleton Elliot (1928-2003) (L. 1, C)

  6. (3/23) Detectives by Christine Donkin (L. 1 Etude)

  7. (3/23) German Dance in D Major by F. J. Haydn (Level 1. A)

  8. Angelfish (Level 1. B)


HOLD

  1. Czerny Op. 823

    1. we left off on no. 8

  1. Rhythm Book.

    1. PREPARE: Nos. 43-45 on page 23