March 2, 2025

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

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS

***đź’šKeep a practice journal every practice session. Simply record the item and how many minutes spent. Update in notes app on your phone.

***đź’›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

***đź’šFour 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

***đź’›Level 5 RCM Technique

  1. See the highlighted items in your PDF

  2. Be sure to use the metronome.

***đź’šCelebrate Theory: Level 5 Unit 3

  1. Finish the unit

Repertoire

đź’šA 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.

đź’šLittle 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.

***đź’›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

đź’šThe 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

đź’śWet Hands from Minecraft, arr. Torby Brand

đź–¤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)