Apr 2, 2025 – Joaquin

G Major Scale 2 octaves hands together slowly

• Curve fingers
• Have the hand/arm angled outward
• level wrist (not high and low), and relaxed elbows

• 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

Do one unit per week – Units 5, 6, and 7 – don’t play the ensemble pieces

Redo p.  22, 27, and fix Unit 7 issues

Do one unit per week, Unit 8, 9, and 10

Nothing for now

Sonatina in C – Clementi

• hands together throughout
• try to get everything at one tempo, but do this through very slow practice

Etude – Khatchaturian

• staccato in the beginning as indicated
• count out loud – this will allow you to learn the proper rhythm and help keep track of the repeated notes, but also it will keep the tempo slower so that the whole thing can be at the same speed
• m. 13-15 let the RH chords connect to the LH notes after
• whatever you can do to memorize this will make it easier to play
• m. 39-48 RH hold the half notes down, and be careful to play C-flat not B-flat
• m. 67-69 be careful of the LH notes
• m. 72 has a mistake, the E should be a G