August 9, 2023 – Marlene

B major scale (two 8va), arpeggios (two 8va) – hands separately, then together. Try to add in as much of gestures/rotation as possible. Keep fingers as curved as possible

Ploger: 6-Part Lap Map p. 68 improv

6-part Longy Rhythm – do this without Lap Map, tapping on beat 1 only and whispering on dots. Use your good coach to remind yourself to go through the tough section first, then do entire right side, then start from beginning. When you can do this without a mistake, then you can add Lap Map

• Try to keep going if you make a mistake – identify the cause of error, and apply the correct cure in time

Solfege:

• improvise solfege melodies, only stepwise motion up and down. If you want to move further up or down, you have to say all the solfege in between. Don’t worry about singing it for now, just get fluent in speaking the solfege and visualizing the keys

• Theory – RCM Unit 8 and end of book – go at your own pace
• Sight Reading 5 Unit 3

Ensemble piece: Opera Aria

Etude in D minor by Czerny – Etude book p. 8

• Work on memorizing this. Any places where you forget what to play, try to figure out what the pattern is, what the chord names are (g minor, d minor, etc), and what the keys look like to help understand what to do

Melody (Ivan Sings) by Khatchaturian p. 152-153 in Classics to Moderns

• learn this by writing in the fingering for every note in each hand

Sonatina in C, Op. 36 No. 3 – Clementi

• Work on m. 7 with the pausing/bursts of speed, pausing on notes where LH and RH play together. Always play the downbeat of the next measure (don’t stop at the barline)
• work on transitioning into and out of difficult passages
• play with the metronome on to find places that may need attention