Apr 23, 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

• first thing go through ONLY the difficult measures and work those out slowly so that you know them well (memorize)
• then go back and play very slowly from the beginning to end with metronome at 80 bpm for a quarter note (or slower if you need to)
• Remember staccato portions
• repeat the above until those problem areas are easy (it may take you several days like this). Then work on speeding up, paying attention to articulations, balance (don’t make the repeated F’s too loud), and dynamics