Aug 14, 2024

Technique/Scales

C Major Scale 2 octaves hands together

  • pay attention to your hand posture and what your wrist and elbow are doing
  • be sure you are using proper fingering

Rhythm

Do the new  5-Part Lap Map Improv – get comfortable with this new pattern

  • pay attention to the 3 Causes of Error and applying the solution

Theory/Sightreading

Theory (blue book): Do Unit 1 and 2

Sightreading book: Do Unit 1 – do one per day

Etudes

Nothing

Repertoire

Minuet in G p. 6

  • play through the entire piece with count out loud – go Very SLOWLY. You’ve lost muscle memory on this so this is how you build it back in
  • you may need to do this hand separately
  • use metronome set to 72 bpm for the 8th note

Clementi Sonatina p. 16-17

  • Count out loud as you play slowly
  • Hands separately, keep working on the Exposition only
  • Watch out for the notes in RH m. 13-15

Tarantelle p. 34-35

  • Focus on keeping your hand posture – curved fingers and knuckles showing, level wrist