Marcy’s Piano Lessons

Apr 17, 2025

Rhythm

  • Do 5-Part Lap Map, making up your own rhythms. You can look at the Longy rhythms and choose ones you see there to try
  • Then do 5-Part rhythm the “old” way
  • stop if you make a mistake and figure out what the mistake was and which of the 3 causes of error it was
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Scales and Technique

Play D Major Scale

  • hands separately then together
  • remember F# and C#
  • remember the crossing over/under happens around the finger 3’s, and the RH goes first, then LH, then on the way down LH starts then RH

Keep practicing Ocean p. 38-39

  • count out loud
  • be careful of where the hands shift to different notes (they circle the finger numbers to help remind you)
  • practice m. 7-8 slowly at first to make sure you have the pattern right
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Theory

Nothing this week

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Lessons

Keep practicing Dreydll and Bubble p. 59-61

  • make sure you count out loud
  • add dynamics and accents
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Performance

Keep practicing Dino Dance, Silver Moon boat, San Francisco, and Jumbo p. 34-40

  • count out loud
  • add dynamics and pedal where indicated
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Sacred Music Competition

Little Joke

  • practice hands together with counting out loud
  • add the slur between the first two notes, but the 2nd note is staccato

Sonatina

  • count out loud
  • play hands together
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