September 17, 2025

🟩Like Him

  • mm. 45-56: play this for me next time with no pauses

  • mm. 57-62: fix expression and the pause between the last two notes.

  • mm. 63-74: learn LH smoothly

🟪Mozart Sonata, No. 11 in A Major, III. Rondo: Alla Turca

  • SPOT:

    • measures 13-14

    • measures 20-24 (three times each below)

  • Pausing: if you pause more than 2 times during practice, revise your approach

    • Slow down

    • Hands apart

    • Shorten the section

  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)