June 12, 2025

Level 5 Piano - Confirmation No. 7/3 9 am

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.

💜💚Celebrate piano level 2 repertoire

  1. Start from p. 4

  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 (5-10 min daily)

  1. Use metronome: with and without for each item.

  2. Rotate through each item (all items).

  3. Remember some of the fingerings are a bit off.

💚Celebrate Theory: Level 5 Unit 5

  1. Prepare pages 1-3

Repertoire

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

  1. Practice starting from any measure of the piece. At least 5 different measures per practice session.

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

  1. Correct the pink and any remaining pen.

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

  1. ❤️Please spot measures 5-6, three times in-a-row correctly each day. There are two circled LH notes that need attention.

  2. ❤️Spot the blue box at the end. RH, LH, HT, slowly please. Fingering is the issue.

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

  1. 💛practice measures 3-7 and 31-37 back to back three times per day.

  2. 💛Focus on expression. Measure 28 - ritardando

  3. One time through each day hands alone and together.

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

  1. practice once a day with 💛m.m. 92

  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)