April 23, 2025

Recital: April 27th

Level 5 Piano - Confirmation No. 7659341 - May 28, 2025 4:06 PM

Musicianship & Technique

💚Keep a practice journal every practice session. Simply record the item and how many minutes spent. Update in notes app on your phone.

💜Sight-Reading: Celebrate Piano! Solos 3 & 4

(Approx. 4-6 min each practice session)

  1. Start from p. 36

  2. Sight-read 8 measures at a time (repeat the same 8 measures if necessary).

  3. Two 8 measure chunks per practice session.

  4. Raise your tempo each time if it’s at a fast tempo.

  5. PLEASE KEEP A STEADY BEAT AND PLAY THROUGH MISTAKES.

    1. Finished Celebrate PIano Lesson & Musicianship 3 on December 12, 2024

💜Four Star Sight-reading & Ear Tests Level 5 (IN NEWZIK)

(Approx. 3-5 min each practice session)

  1. Complete set 10

    1. Focus on sight-reading. Do them at least three times each correcting your mistakes between tries.

    2. Interval recognition: good

💜Level 5 RCM Technique

  1. See the highlighted items in your PDF

  2. Be sure to use the metronome.

💜Celebrate Theory: Level 5 Unit 4

  1. Complete the entire unit.

Repertoire

(recital) 💚The Spice of Life by Tom Gerou (L. 5, C)

  1. We need a bit more focus on contrasting dynamics.

  2. Review once a practice session with your music at m.m. 80

  3. Do hands alone practice once time a week. Do spotting if necessary.

  4. Practice starting from any measure of the piece

(recital) 💚A Summer Day by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 5, Etude)

  1. See remaining pen on the pages

  2. Practice starting from any measure - each practice session.

  3. Do hands alone practice once time a week. Do spotting if necessary.

(recital) 💚Sonatina in G Major op. 168 no. 2 by Anton Diabelli (L. 5, B)

  1. Practice plan until AFTER APRIL 27TH

    1. For each section: measures 1-16, 17-28, and 29 to the end:

      1. SLOW PRACTICE:

        1. RH, LH, HT - close loud for all 8th notes. no faster than m.m. 80 per 8th note.

        2. If you make a mistake, go back and fix you’re mistakes.

      2. MEDIUM PRACTICE: expression and memorization are the focus.

        1. m.m. 60, 69, 80

        2. If you make mistakes, stop, spot the section, then start again.

      3. FINAL TEMPO PRACTICE:

        1. Entire piece: don’t stop no matter what, and practice improvising and working through any problem areas.

        2. m.m. 92, 96, and 100

💚Joyous Etude by Melody Bober (b. 1955) (L. 5, Etude)

  1. Fix all markings in the music.

💜💜Little Prelude in C Major BWV 939 by Johann Sebastian Bach (L. 5, A)

  1. Practice plan until AFTER APRIL 27TH

    1. Hands alone and hands together twice per week.

    2. Practice starting from 3 different places each practice session.

  1. Mice on Venus from Minecraft, arr. Sam Hodgkinson (P. Choice)

  2. List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer (L. 4, C)

  3. Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn (L. 4, Etude)

  4. Solitude by Joyce Grill (b. 1936) (L. 4, Etude)

Level 4, Practical Test: May 29, 2024

  1. List A: Minuet in G Major by J. S. Bach

  2. List B: Sonatina in F Major, op. 168 no. 1 “Moderato cantabile” by Anton Diabelli

  3. List C: Foggy Day Blues by Mike Springer

  4. Etude 1: Etude in E Minor, op. 65, no. 42 by Loeschhorn

  5. Etude 2: Solitude by Joyce Grill

Level 3, Practical Test: June 2023 ( score of 87)

  1. List A: J. S. Bach, Polonaise in F Minor, BWV Anh. 119 (L. 3, A)

  2. List B: Sonatina in A Minor op. 94 no. 4 by Albert Biehl (L. 3, B)

  3. List C: Wild Mignonette, Op. 205 No. 1 by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901) (L. 3, C)

  4. Etude: Burgmuller, Op. 100 No. 2, L’Arabesque (Etude, L. 3)

  5. Etude: Prelude VII by Barbara Arens (b. 1960) (L. 3, Etude)