March 2, 2025

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

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

***💚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. 30

  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 9

    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 3

  1. Finish the unit

Repertoire

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

  1. Measures 30 - 37:

    1. Practice the top voice only. Then add the other notes in the RH. Then add the LH.

    2. Listen to the audio in Newzik.

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

  1. Think ahead when you’re playing this. At least an 8th note at a time.

  2. Practice plan for March 9th

    1. Hands alone and hands together once a day

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

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

  1. Learn measures 5-16

    1. Block LH first.

    2. Practice RH alone with the expression.

    3. HT but with LH blocked.

    4. Then as written.

  2. Learn to 25

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

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

  2. Do hands alone practice once time a week.

    1. careful of rushing starting in measure 4

    2. Spot all the yellow sections.

    3. Practice starting from any measure

    4. Fix the notes in the RH m. 16

💜Wet Hands from Minecraft, arr. Torby Brand

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

  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)