January 26, 2021

2019-2020 Private Lesson Enrollment: Semester

Lesson Assignments

Technique - START YOUR PRACTICE WITH THIS

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  1. Level 2 Technique Test:

    1. 80% Accurate today.

  2. Technical Requirements Level 3

    1. SCALES: Learn **B abd D Minor harmonic and melodic.

      1. Look where finger 4 plays in each hand BEFORE YOU START.

      2. Also listening for tidy attacks.

Theory

  1. *Celebrate Theory: Level 3

    1. Emailed to me on December 22pol

    2. Finish Unit 3 and email me your work

Musicianship

  1. Online Ear Training and Rhythm

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

      1. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

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        2. dust2789

  2. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

    1. Prepare Review Set 2

    2. Prepare Set 1

  3. Sightreading Level 2A

    1. Move on from page 70

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

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

Repertoire

Keyboard Settings: 100%

Zoom Input: 45%

Recital:

  1. A Skating Waltz, Boris Berlin

    1. Very good tempo!

    2. Keep tidy attacks with your 3rds

  2. Minuet in F Major, Mozart (Jan 16)

    1. Do a slight ritardando at the end.

  3. German Dance in B-flat major, Haydn (Jan 16)

    1. Take more time before you start to think about the balance you need to play the 16th notes.

    2. mm. 9 and 11 - you’re rushing your quarter notes.

      Angelfish by Anne Crosby-Gaudet

    1. Think about the beginning before you start this to create an atmosphere appropriate for the pieces.

    2. Decrescendo more at the end.

    3. Beautiful decrescendo after the climax!

  4. We Three Kings of Orient Are (Jan 12th)

    1. m. 12 pedaling! Please fix this. Do it 10 times in-a-row correctly.

    2. Unstable memory: mm. 29-32

  5. For Children, Book 1, No. 2, Bartok (Jan 16)

    1. Hungary - how do you pronounce

    2. Your ritardando at the end is too much

  6. Canon by Cornelius Gurlitt

    1. Metronome practice. This was a bit rushed.

  7. Invention in A Minor, by Frederick Silverster

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

    1. Imagine yourself playing the 8th notes perfectly before you begin.

  9. Colored Windows, Eda Mae Burnam (Jan 12th

    1. Keep your head toward the piano until you finish the sound.

    2. The same instruction applies when you’re speaking toward the camera.

  10. The Highlands by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2 Etude) (Jan 12th)

    1. The beginning is rushed and unsteady. Practice hearing the first several measures in your head before you begin.

  11. Distant Chimes, Jon George

    1. Maybe a bit slower?

    2. The end of the climax needs to be softer and slower.

Repertoire

  1. Burgmuller Arabesque

    1. Keep LH wrist higher on the staccato chords.

    2. Learn RH section B. See markings in your music.

  2. We Three Kings of Orient Are

    1. All Markings Must be fixed!

    2. Spot each of these sections for at least three practice sessions in-a-row.

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

    1. Review

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

    1. Reivew.

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

    1. Review

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

    1. REVIEW

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

    1. REVIEW

  8. 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