April 2, 2025

Recital: April 27th

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

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.

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

(Approx. 4-6 min each practice session)

  1. Start from p. 36

  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 10

    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 4

  1. Complete the entire unit.

Repertoire

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

  1. See remaining pen on the pages

  2. Practice starting from any measure - each practice session.

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

  1. Listen to the audio in Newzik for the last system of the first page.

  2. Fix all the green pen and spot any sections that need it.

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

  1. Practice plan until AFTER APRIL 27TH

    1. Hands alone and hands together twice per week.

    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. Practice plan until AFTER APRIL 27TH

    1. Practice starting from any measure.

    2. Practice slowly

    3. Spot measures that need it

    4. Think ahead

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

  1. We need a bit more focus on contrasting dynamics.

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

  3. Do hands alone practice once time a week.

  4. Practice starting from any measure of the piece

  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)