May 7, 2025

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. Go back to the beginning of level 5 Four Start and sight-read three per day.

   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. Start with scales and go through the entire diagram.

2. Pick up from where you left off the day before.

3. Fingering - check

4. Build your speeds to the indicated tempo.

💜Celebrate Theory: Level 5 Unit 4

1. Complete the entire unit.

Repertoire

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

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

1. measure 8 moving into 9, please practice thinking that you LH 8ths in the beginning are the same tempo as the chords in measure 9.

2. Record yourself playing through and identify any pauses or problem areas. Spot each of them.

3. The goal is to eliminate every pause in the piece and clean up any mistakes.

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

1. This week - play through with 100% accuracy with notes in mind - meaning, go slow enough to play all the notes and fingering correctly. It’s OK to pause and find your way. This is the goal this week - next week we’ll do some recital practice.

💚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

💚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

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)