Feb 10, 2025 – Linda

Nothing this week

Nothing this week

TTry using this Google sheet to help organize your rotation on passages you’ll work on. See the tabs for alternative options

Sonatina Op 36 No 1 3rd mvt

• Decide which measures are “red” (needs a lot of work), “yellow” (needs some work), and “green” (needs minimal work or none)
• From the red measure, break up into segments of 4 measures or less
• Place up to 3 of those segments in the first blue boxes of the Passages column
• Choose from the remaining red or yellow measures, break up into 4 measure segments, and place those in the next set of colored boxes.
• On Day 1, check off each box in that column once you practice it (try doing the 3-10-3 method below). Do the same for the next two days.
• Day 4, you don’t practice any blue boxes, and start passages from another piece or from remaining red or yellow measures
• On blank days, you don’t play those passages. You can play other measures from the piece if you like, but don’t play the passages

3-10-3 Method

1. Pick a very short passage to play: only 3-5 notes or items
2. Play that passage slowly – pick a tempo you can do it without a mistake. Do this 3 times
3. Wait 10 seconds
4. Play the same passage 3 times under tempo without mistakes
5. If your passage was short enough, it should be easy to do in roughly 30 seconds total