January 9, 2025

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

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

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

1. LH: Position your thumb on the white keys so it easily accesses the black notes.

2. See green pen

3. Focus on two systems per practice session.

4. Learn to m. 25. Remember how we did it at your virtual lesson.

💚Keep a practice journal every practice session. Simply record the item and how many minutes spent.

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

(Approx. 16-20 min each practice session)

1. Each system RH, LH alone, then together - three times correctly and slowly

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

(Approx. 3-5 min each practice session)

1. Complete set 5

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

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

(Approx. 9-12 min each practice session)

1. Mm. 8-10

   1. Please remember the LH G-natural

2. Mm. 25-27

   1. Slow section practice: RH alone, LH alone, HT. With/without/with/without/with music practice.

   2. Combine sections. Continuing to do hands alone then together.

3. MM. 33-34

   1. Slow section practice: RH alone, LH alone, HT. With/without/with/without/with music practice.

   2. Combine sections. Continuing to do hands alone then together.

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

(Approx. 4-6 min each practice session)

1. Start from p. 11

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 Solos 3 on December 12, 2024

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

1. Number all the measures in your music (at the start of each system)

2. Pause on learning until finished with Summer Day

💜Wet Hands from Minecraft, arr. Torby Brand

💜Level 5 RCM Technique

1. See the highlighted items in your PDF

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

💜Celebrate Theory: Level 5 Unit 3

1. Prepare pages 10 and 11

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)